Cyril Alexander Garland Luckham (25 July 1907 – 8 February 1989) was an English film, television and theatre actor. He was the husband of stage and screen actress Violet Lamb. The son of a paymaster captain in the Royal Navy, Cyril Luckham was educated at RNC Osborne and Dartmouth and briefly followed his father into the service. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1930 and retired the following year, transferring to the Emergency List. Afterwards he trained for the stage with the Arthur Brough school at Folkestone, making his debut with Brough's company there in The Admirable Crichton in 1935. For several years he appeared in provincial repertory, notably with the Rapier Players at Bristol's Little Theatre. He had been promoted to Lieutenant-Commander on the retired list in 1938 and was recalled to the Navy when the War broke out. He was invalided out soon afterwards following serious illness and returned to the theatre. Luckham made his West End debut as Torvald Helmer in A Doll's House at the Arts Theatre in July 1945. For several years afterwards his stage work was largely back in the provinces including the touring company of the Old Vic.

Filmography

• 1983Doctor Who: Enlightenment — The White Guardian
• 1983Mrs. Silly — Bishop
• Q.E.D. — Crabtree
• The Barchester Chronicles — Bishop Grantly
• Levkas Man — Gilmour
• 1981The Potting Shed — Dr Baston
• 1981The Winter's Tale — Antigonus
• 1980Donkeys' Years — Sydney Birkett
• Time of My Life — Judge
• To Serve Them All My Days — Sir Rufus Creighton
• Murder at the Wedding — Eric Russell
• My Son, My Son
• 1979Sweet Wine of Youth — Dean Inge
• Tales of the Unexpected — Rawlsden, Gavin, Mr Gainsborough
• The Omega Factor
• 1979The Saint and the Brave Goose — Coroner
• 1978Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation — The Guardian
• Return of the Saint — Coroner
• The Famous Five — Mr Luffy
• 1978Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man — Old Hardy
• 1978What Every Woman Knows — Charles Venables
• 1977Providence — Dr. Mark Eddington
• The Professionals — Judge Hall
• Victorian Scandals — Sir Alexander Cockburn
• 1975The Doll — Sir Arnold Wyatt
• The Doll — Sir Arnold Wyatt
• The Venturers — Lord Kilvern
• Father Brown — Lord Galloway
• Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
• Playhouse — Dean Inge
• 1974The Wood Demon — Orlovsky
• Village Hall — Colonel Dean
• 1973Caring for History — Narrator
• Scotch on the Rocks — Lord Thorganby
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
• Crown Court
• The Adventurer — Lord Franklin
• The Protectors — Alec Weston
• Justice — Justice Briggs
• 1971Mr. Forbush and the Penguins — Tringham
• The Guardians — Sir Timothy Hobson
• 1970One More Time — Magistrate
• Ryan International
• 1969Anne of the Thousand Days — Prior Houghton
• Department S — Walker
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Mulberry
• Imperial Palace — Sir Henry Savott
• In Loving Memory
• Paul Temple
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) — Laverick
• W. Somerset Maugham — Sir Philip Brandower
• 1968Happy DeathDay
• 1968Stand by Your Screen — Norman Gritter
• The Company of Five — Mr James, Stan Sinclair, Lewis Black, Norman Gritter
• The Spanish Farm — Baron D'Archeville
• Angel Pavement — Mr. Smeeth
• ITV Playhouse — Mr. Webber, William Ince
• 1967The Naked Runner — Cabinet minister
• The World of Wodehouse — Vicar
• 1966A Man for All Seasons — Archbishop Cranmer
• The Lost Peace — (voice)
• BBC Play of the Month — Roebuck Ramsden, Orlovsky
• Public Eye — Charles Luce
• 1965The Alphabet Murders — Sir Carmichael Clarke
• The Mind of the Enemy — Sir Henry Blake
• The Troubleshooters — Charles Andrews
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Dr. Pelham
• 1965VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton — Archibald Lake
• 1964A Midsummer Night's Dream — Egeus
• Detective
• The Great War — Various (voice)
• 1964The July Plot — General-Colonel Ludwig Beck
• 1964The Pumpkin Eater — Doctor
• The Wednesday Play — General-Colonel Ludwig Beck, Hugh Archibald-Lake
• Thursday Theatre — Bishop Gardiner
• Victoria Regina — Lord Melbourne
• Doctor Who — White Guardian, The Guardian
• Espionage — Admiral Bond
• No Cloak - No Dagger — Det. Chief-Supt. Gage
• 1962Billy Budd — Hallam, Captain of Marines
• 1962Night Conspirators — Wolfgang Himmelmann
• 1962Some People — Magistrate
• The Dark Island
• The Saint — Jack Hardy
• The Scales of Justice — Mr. Lawson
• An Age of Kings — Archbishop of Canterbury
• Sunday-Night Play — John Pearce
• 1957How to Murder a Rich Uncle — Coroner
• Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! — Maurice Dekobra
• 1957The Birthday Present — Magistrate
• 1957The End Begins — Dr. Wincot
• 1957Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst — Commander in Chief
• Armchair Theatre — Dr. Wolfgang Himmelmann
• 1956The Battle of the River Plate — Lieutenant Jasper Abbot, H.M.S. Achilles
• ITV Play of the Week — Arthur Mounteney
• 1955Out of the Clouds — Doctor Harman
• 1954Stranger from Venus — Dr. Meinard
• 1945Murder in Reverse — Crossley's Guest

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Omnibus — Self