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Tenniel Evans
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In 1985 he was ordained as a Church of England minister and alternated acting with church duties.
He recommended to his friend and Navy Lark colleague
Jon Pertwee
that he should put his name forward for the role of the Doctor in
Doctor Who (1963)
.
A distant relation of the novelist
George Eliot
and illustrator
John Tenniel
, from whom he gained his middle name.
Father of
Matthew Evans
and
Serena Evans
, husband of
Evangeline Banks
and son-in-law of the actor
Leslie Banks
.
Filmed scenes as
Hugh Grant
's father in
Notting Hill (1999)
but his part was removed during post production.
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