Roy Spencer (actor)

{{Short description|British actor and special effects technician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{more footnotes|date=March 2013}}

{{infobox person

|name=Roy Spencer

|birth_place=Heanor, Derbyshire, England

|occupation=Film, Television actor,
special effects technician

}}

Roy Spencer is a British actor and special effects technician who was born in Heanor, Derbyshire, but grew up in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.

Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons, during which he went with them on a Russian tour."Phoenix Faces", Leicester Mercury, 26 April 1966 (pg.10)

Spencer has appeared in several films and TV shows, including two roles in Doctor Who, as Manyak in The Ark and as Frank Harris in Fury from the Deep.

He also wrote several books about the author D. H. Lawrence and appeared in the BBC dramatisation of Lawrence's The Rainbow (1988).