The actor Gareth Hunt, who played Arak in Jon Pertwee's regeneration story Planet of the Spiders, died of pancreatic cancer yesterday at home in Redhill, Surrey. He was 65.Hunt was probably most famous for the role of Mike Gambit in The New Avengers in the 1970s. He also took part in a long-running Nescafe coffee advert campaign on TV.Among his many other roles, he played the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs, which was co-created by Jean Marsh, Pertwee's former wife who played companion character Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Masterplan.Click here for his career summary from Funky Beetroot Celebrity Management Ltd.Reported at BBC News. Click here for a BBC picture gallery of aspects of Hunt's career, which includes an image from Planet of the Spiders.
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