Graham Crowden (born 30 November 1922 in Edinburgh), is a Scottish actor.
Crowden is best known for his roles in BBC comedy-dramas, including Dr. Jock McCannon in A Very Peculiar Practice and Tom Ballard in Waiting for God. He has also had a long and distinguished theatrical career, and originated the role of The Player King in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, the play by Tom Stoppard.
Crowden has occasionally played mad scientists in film, taking the role of Doctor Millar in the Mick Travis films of director Lindsay Anderson, O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982), and also playing the sinister Doctor Smiles in the film of Michael Moorcock's first Jerry Cornelius novel, The Final Programme (1973).
He was offered the role of the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who in 1974, when Jon Pertwee left the role, but turned it down. The role ultimately went to Tom Baker. He did, however, appear in The Horns of Nimon (1979) as a villain opposite Baker.
He voiced the role of Mustrum Ridcully in the 1997 animated Cosgrove Hall production of Terry Pratchett's Soul Music
In 2005 he starred in the BBC Radio 4 sci-fi comedy Nebulous as Sir Ronald Rolands.
Crowden had a sister, Anne Crowdenhttp://www.crowden.org/About%20Us/Anne%20Crowden/anne.htm, a violinist who established The Crowden School, classical music prep school in Berkeley, California.
He was offered the role of the fourth Doctor in the BBC series "Doctor Who" (1963) after the departure of Jon Pertwee, but he didn't want to commit himself to one role.
He has performed with the National Theatre.
