My father, Gregory de Polnay, who has died aged 82, was an actor, director, voice teacher and performance coach.
In all he had more than 100 television and 350 radio broadcasts to his name, most notably as detective sergeant Mike Brewer in the Dixon of Dock Green TV series in 1974-75. He also appeared alongside Peggy Ashcroft in his own touring production of You Can’t Shut Out the Human Voice at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London, in 1984. In the 1977 Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death he provided the voice of D84.
