Born: 4th January 1947 (as Terence Molloy)
Episodes Broadcast: 1984-1985, 1988

Terry Molloy was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, but his father's work with the Royal Air Force took him to Aden when he was still a child. While in the Middle East, Molloy's mother worked in military broadcasting, which gave him his first exposure to radio performance. He originally hoped to follow his father into the RAF, but was deemed ineligible due to poor eyesight. Molloy also failed to gain admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Instead, he attended Christ's College of Education in Liverpool, Merseyside, and graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Education in music and drama. In 1970, Molloy married Heather Barrett; they had a daughter, Hannah, and sons Robert and Philip.

For a time, Molloy played saxophone with The Big T-Bunkum Band and considered focussing on music, but he ultimately decided to pursue a career in acting. He spent much of the Seventies working in repertory theatre, but also broke into radio, where he joined the cast of The Archers. Molloy would play Mike Tucker in the soap opera for more than four decades. It wasn't until 1980 that he began to find work on television, starting with God's Wonderful Railway. Molloy could also be seen in programmes such as Radio Phoenix and Angels.

In 1984, Molloy became the third actor to play Davros in Doctor Who

Molloy then became the third actor to play Davros in Doctor Who. He made his first appearance in the role for 1984's Resurrection Of The Daleks, opposite Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. He returned the following year for Revelation Of The Daleks, by which time Colin Baker had taken over as the Sixth Doctor. In between, Molloy made an appearance sans mask as Russell, an ill-fated undercover policeman, in Attack Of The Cybermen. He then made a surprise comeback as Davros in 1988's Remembrance Of The Daleks, with the character now masquerading as the Emperor Dalek and sparring with Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor.

Other work in the late Eighties included Oliver Twist, The Real Eddy English and Tales Of Sherwood Forest. Amongst Molloy's Nineties television was Jupiter Moon, Chalkface, The Bill and Dangerfield. His first movie credit came in 1994's Chasing The Deer with Brian Blessed, having previously gone unbilled in 1990's Truly Madly Deeply. Molloy joined various other Doctor Who alumni for the 1995 video drama The Devil Of Winterbourne from BBV. His credits in the twenty-first century included Doctors, Byker Grove and Casualty. Molloy reprised the role of Davros -- in addition to playing a variety of other characters -- for the range of Doctor Who audio dramas from Big Finish Productions. His first contribution to the series, appropriately enough, was simply called Davros; this Sixth Doctor adventure was released in 2003. The next year, Molloy married his second wife, Victoria Smillie. In 2005, he took to the stage for The Trial Of Davros, performed at the Tameside Hippodrome in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.