Richard Mayes

Derek Leonard Richard Mayes was an English stage, film and television actor. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. A well-known face on British television, he was primarily a theatrical actor, described by The Stage as "an RSC stalwart." He appeared in many roles on stage and small screen, including roles in Doctor Who and as Jedediah Dingle in Emmerdale. He suffered a stroke in 2004. ^{Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)}

26 December 1922

Born on the same birth day (26 December): Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg • Bahram Beyzai • Fatih Akyel • Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah • Liz Lochhead • Matt Zoller Seitz • Norman Angell • Pablo Canavosio • Philaret Drozdov • Ray Sadecki • Tomáš Kundrátek • Étienne Constantin de Gerlache

Born in the same month (December 1922): Alan Voorhees • Ava Gardner • Beverly Pepper • Dilip Kumar • Don Robertson (songwriter) • Eamonn Andrews • Eli Mandel • Halina Czerny-Stefańska • Jack Brooks (American politician) • Jane Langton • Jean Ritchie • Len Lesser • Little Joe Cook • Lucian Freud • Micheline Ostermeyer • Redd Foxx • Stan Lee • Sven Nykvist • Tomás Balduino • Vsevolod Bobrov • William Soeryadjaya