Thatcher was born in Bombay, British India, to British parents, Torin James Blair Thatcher, a police officer, and his wife Edith Rachel, a voice and piano teacher, younger daughter of the Hon. Justice Sir Herbert Batty, a puisne judge of the High Court of Bombay.[1][2][3][4] He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934.[citation needed]
Career
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In 1935 he appeared in the historical play Mary Tudor. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic production of Hamlet, in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia.
During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilised with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He returned to the stage frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed productions as Edward, My Son (1948), That Lady (1949) and Billy Budd (1951). In 1959, he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning play The Miracle Worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. All of these plays were filmed, but Thatcher did not appear in the film versions. Also a steady fixture on television, he appeared in such made-for-TV films as adaptations of A.J. Cronin's Beyond This Place (1957) and The Citadel (1960), and Brenda Starr (1976).
He played the title role in a Philco Television Playhouse version of Othello and acted in a CBS production of Beyond This Place (1957). He appeared in programmes such as The Real McCoys, Thriller, Gunsmoke (“Fandango” - S12E21), Perry Mason, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Daniel Boone, Wagon Train (S2E32) and Mission: Impossible. He was cast as the sly space trader in an episode of Lost in Space. Thatcher, if not for his distinguished career, has been recognized by several generations of fans of Star Trek: The Original Series from his performance as Marplon, a member of the secret resistance in "The Return of the Archons".
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