Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)
Funny thing, really, but I don't normally get sentimental about the passing away of people I only know through the medium of television, yet I'm feeling kind of wistful as I type this, with a manly something in my manly eye, or something.
Certainly, Nicholas Courtney had a longer, fuller life than a lot of people ever have, but I can't help feeling that, you know, with all due respect to Sarah Jane Adventures, the world would somehow be a better, finer place had the Brig ever got the chance to cross paths with one of the new series Doctors.
This is a nice obituary that provides a reminder that there was much more to Nicholas Courtney than the Brigadier:
www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/23/nicholas-courtney-obituary
And this is a fine tribute in pictures from calapine:
calapine.livejournal.com/652117.html