Born: 27th April 1931 (as Glyn Idris Jones)
Died: 2nd April 2014 (aged 82 years)
Episodes Broadcast: 1965, 1975

Glyn Jones was born in Durban, South Africa. He attended the University of Natal but left to go to drama school. Jones spent time as a copper miner, but soon began working as an actor and a theatre manager. He then moved to London in 1953, where he worked for a newspaper, as a cleaner and in a pub while building up a resume as an actor, writer and director for theatre, radio and television. His first roles on the small screen came in the late Fifties, on shows like The Diary Of Samuel Pepys and Queen's Champion. In 1960, he met the man who would become his life partner, Christopher Beeching, who also divided his time between writing and acting.

At a dinner party in 1964, Jones met Doctor Who story editor David Whitaker, who had enjoyed a play written by Jones called Early One Morning. This led to Jones scripting The Space Museum for William Hartnell's First Doctor. A second submission in 1970 was rejected by Terrance Dicks, who by then was the programme's script editor. Although Jones would continue writing for stage and screen -- including several episodes of Here Come The Double Deckers!, for which he was also the script editor, and the film A King's Story -- most of his television credits thereafter came in front of the camera. These included episodes of Softly Softly and Strange Report, before Jones returned to Doctor Who. His role as an astronaut named Krans, who encountered Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor on a postapocalyptic Earth in 1975's The Sontaran Experiment, made Jones the first person to both write and act in Doctor Who.

Jones' subsequent roles were in programmes such as The Liver Birds, Bognor and Juliet Bravo. His final television appearance was in a 1994 installment of Crimewatch File. Jones lived in America on two occasions, teaching at universities in Virginia and South Carolina. Then, in 1997, he moved to Vamos on Crete in Greece. Having already novelised The Space Museum for Target Books, Jones now established a new career as an author. His publications included a series of mystery novels starring former MI5 agent Thornton King, and his 2008 autobiography, No Official Umbrella, from DCG. Jones died on April 2nd, 2014.