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Sam Dastor (born Bombay 2 October 1941) is an actor best known for his appearances in British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series.

He is perhaps best remembered for playing Cassius Chaerea
Cassius Chaerea

Cassia Chaerea was a centurion in the army of Germanicus and served in the Praetorian Guard under the emperor Caligula, whom he eventually assassinated....
 in the 1976 BBC adaptation of I, Claudius
I, Claudius (TV series)

I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves's I, Claudius. Written by Jack Pulman, it proved one of the corporation's most successful drama serials of all time....
. Other credits include: Softly, Softly
Softly, Softly (TV series)

Softly, Softly was a United Kingdom television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC One from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes Criminal Investigation Department officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern - supposedly in the Bristol and Chepstow area of the UK....
, Space 1999, Blake's 7
Blake's 7

Blake's 7 is a United Kingdom science fiction television series made by the British Broadcasting Corporation for their BBC One channel. Created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer best known for creating the popular Dalek monsters for the television series Doctor Who, it ran for four series between 1978 and 1981....
, Shoestring
Shoestring

Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on the local radio station, Radio West....
, Yes Minister
Yes Minister

Yes Minister is a satire British sitcom written by Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and BBC Radio between 1980 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series....
, Fortunes of War
Fortunes of War (tv series)

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War , which stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet....
, A Touch of Frost
A Touch of Frost (TV series)

A Touch of Frost is a detective fiction television series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV in the United Kingdom.It stars David Jason as Jack Frost , G.C., known as Jack to everyone but his late wife ....
 , Spooks
Spooks

Spooks is a British Academy Television Awards award-winning British television drama series produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One....
, Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (as Gandhi), and Jinnah.

He has also narrated
Narrator

A narrator is, within any story , the entity that tells the story to the audience. The narrator --or, the archaic female equivalent, narratress-- is one of three entities responsible for story-telling of any kind....
 and done voice acting for a number of audiobooks.








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Sam Dastor (born Bombay 2 October 1941) is an actor best known for his appearances in British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series.

He is perhaps best remembered for playing Cassius Chaerea
Cassius Chaerea

Cassia Chaerea was a centurion in the army of Germanicus and served in the Praetorian Guard under the emperor Caligula, whom he eventually assassinated....
 in the 1976 BBC adaptation of I, Claudius
I, Claudius (TV series)

I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves's I, Claudius. Written by Jack Pulman, it proved one of the corporation's most successful drama serials of all time....
. Other credits include: Softly, Softly
Softly, Softly (TV series)

Softly, Softly was a United Kingdom television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC One from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes Criminal Investigation Department officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern - supposedly in the Bristol and Chepstow area of the UK....
, Space 1999, Blake's 7
Blake's 7

Blake's 7 is a United Kingdom science fiction television series made by the British Broadcasting Corporation for their BBC One channel. Created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer best known for creating the popular Dalek monsters for the television series Doctor Who, it ran for four series between 1978 and 1981....
, Shoestring
Shoestring

Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on the local radio station, Radio West....
, Yes Minister
Yes Minister

Yes Minister is a satire British sitcom written by Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and BBC Radio between 1980 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series....
, Fortunes of War
Fortunes of War (tv series)

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War , which stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet....
, A Touch of Frost
A Touch of Frost (TV series)

A Touch of Frost is a detective fiction television series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV in the United Kingdom.It stars David Jason as Jack Frost , G.C., known as Jack to everyone but his late wife ....
 , Spooks
Spooks

Spooks is a British Academy Television Awards award-winning British television drama series produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One....
, Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (as Gandhi), and Jinnah.

He has also narrated
Narrator

A narrator is, within any story , the entity that tells the story to the audience. The narrator --or, the archaic female equivalent, narratress-- is one of three entities responsible for story-telling of any kind....
 and done voice acting for a number of audiobooks.

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