Maurice Colbourne (24 September 1939 – 4 August 1989) was a British stage and television actor.He was born Roger Middleton in Sheffield at the outbreak of the Second World War, and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He took his stage name from that of an earlier film actor called Maurice Colbourne, (24 September 1894–22 September 1965), who shared the same date of birth (in a different year) as his.