- The first person to be killed by a Dalek on Doctor Who (1963).
- Judged by The Tailor and Cutter as being the Best Dressed British Actor in 1961 and the 5th Best Dressed Man in the world.
- He preferred television to the stage as in the theatre you have to enlarge and over emphasize while he prefers to minimize which is more suitable for television. He also gets bored doing the same thing night after night.
- He became an actor/manager by investing his film wages in the play Portrait of a Lady at the Embassy Theatre in London.
- In the main he does his own stunts.
- During the war he was a newsreader and announcer on the BB?C European Service.
- At 21 he joined an amateur theatre group in St Pancras, London then a repertory company in Croydon, where he sung and danced.
- He spoke French, German, Italian and Spanish,.
- Spent 4 years as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the tv series Robin Hood.
- He was a student in applied industrial psychology,.
- He was in 100 television plays.
- His favourite part was Richard III.
- Appeared in some 100, television plays.
- As at April 1952 he'd made 1,000 broadcasts, the first being in 1935 in Pickwick Papers.
- In Whispering Smith Investigates he has a fight with Richard Gambon who throws him over his head in a ju jitsu move, Alan crashed into a table with a cut glass vase on it which broke and cut his forehead open from which blood poured out .The scene was kept in tact in the film,.
- He disliked personal appearances as he felt they took away the glamour and mystery of the profession.
- Had a collection of 4,000 78 records and 1,000 LPs which were all ,classical.
- During the war he was a news reader and announcer on the BBC European Service.
- As at April 1952 he'd made1,000 broadcasts, the first in Pickwick Papers in 1935.
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