Olaf Pooley, the veteran actor known to generations of sci-fi fans for his dual role as Professor and Director Stahlman in the classic 1970 Doctor Who adventure Inferno, has died at the age of 101.
US publication The Hollywood Reporter says that Pooley's family announced that he died on July 14 in Los Angeles.
In a screen career spanning seven decades, Pooley also appeared in Star Trek: Voyager, Hill Street Blues and LA Law on television and the films Highly Dangerous, The Iron Petticoat and The Password Is Courage.
He was one of the original cast of Noel Coward's play Peace in Our Time in the West End.
Having moved to the US in the 1980s, he combined his acting career with work as a visual artist, becoming artist-in-residence at Santa Monica Art Studios.
