{"id":46491,"date":"2024-02-23T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1997300"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T11:47:36","slug":"doctor-who-and-grange-hill-star-stuart-organ-dies-age-72","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/doctor-who-and-grange-hill-star-stuart-organ-dies-age-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who and Grange Hill star Stuart Organ dies, age 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The actor played Bazin in the Doctor Who storyline Dragonfire in 1987. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Molly Moss\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 23 February 2024 at 10:05 AM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grange Hill actor Stuart Organ has died at the age of 72, his representatives have confirmed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organ played PE teacher-turned-headteacher Peter Robson in the children\u2019s TV drama, and was the show\u2019s longest-serving cast member.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The British actor, who began his acting career in Leeds in 1975, also played Kevin Cross in the TV soap opera Brookside and Bazin in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/doctor-who\/\">Doctor Who<\/a> storyline Dragonfire in 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organ also had roles in Casualty and Holby City, and appeared in a number of films, including Fork In The Road in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it was for his role as Mr Robson in Grange Hill that he remains best known for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organ began his 15-year stint on the BBC drama in 1988, with his character arriving as the head of PE, before taking on the role of headteacher 10 years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The series, which ran from 1978 until 2008 on BBC One, painted a portrait of life in a typical British comprehensive school, with storylines tackling hard-hitting issues such as teenage pregnancy, racism, mental health and drug addiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organ departed from the series in 2003, after it was announced that production was moving to Liverpool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organ began his acting career in 1975 in a production of Tom <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stoppard\u2019s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, a spin-off of William Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, he returned to his theatre roots, playing Guy Burgess in a 2003 production in York and Major Powell in the play Corpse, which he performed in Hornchurch in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He has also appeared as the voiceover on cartoons and video games, such as Star Wars: The Old Republic and in <\/span>2020, he appeared in an episode of Bridgerton as a doctor.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most recently, the actor took on the voice role of David in The Gnomes Great Adventure.<\/span><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The actor played Bazin in the Doctor Who storyline Dragonfire in 1987. 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