Michael Craze (29 November 1942 â€" 8 December 1998) was a British
actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in
the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He
played the part from 1966 to 1967 alongside both William Hartnell and
Patrick Troughton.Craze was born in Newquay, Cornwall. He got into
acting by chance as, at the age of twelve, he discovered through Boy
Scout Gang Shows that he had a perfect boy soprano voice. This led him
to win parts in The King and I and Plain and Fancy, both at Drury
Lane, and Damn Yankees at the Coliseum. Once he had left school, he
went into repertory and got into TV through his agent. His first
television was a show called Family Solicitor for Granada, which was
followed, amongst others, by a part in ABC TV's 1960 series Target
Luna (written by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice and produced by Sydney
Newman).Before Doctor Who, Craze founded a film company, Mantic, and
produced an award-winning short film entitled Fragment directed by
Norman J Warren. It was exhibited at the Commonwealth Film Festival.
He worked on several ITV productions, including one episode (The Last
Visitor) of Hammer Films' first TV series Journey to the Unknown in
1968. Other television roles include parts in Gideon's Way, Dixon of
Dock Green and Z-Cars.In the 1970s Craze appeared in two cult Norman
J. Warren horror films: Satan's Slave (1976) and Terror (1978). He
also appeared in the horror/fantasy/romance film Neither the Sea Nor
the Sand (1972). Michael Craze Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter