Michael Jayston, the actor, who has died aged 88, was an English actor. He played Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), with Dame Janet Suzman, playing the Tsarina Alexandra.

He also made many television appearances, which included portraying Peter Guillam in 1979 miniseries Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, playing the Valeyard in all fourteen episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord (1986), and appearing in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Time on Our Hands" (1996) as Raquel's father, James.

Jayston also starred as Edward Rochester in a 1970s TV adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, and appeared in science fiction series Doctor Who as The Valeyard – an evil character made up of the worst aspects of the Doctor.

He played The Confessor in Roger Crane play The Last Confession opposite David Suchet as Cardinal Benelli at Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2007.

In the ITV soap Emmerdale, from 2007 to 2008, Jayston played the husband of Nicola King (Nicola Wheeler) but his character died within a year of moving to the Yorkshire village.

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Jayston played James Bond in the 1990 BBC Radio version of "You Only Live Twice" - an adaptation that, unlike the 1967 movie, stuck very closely to the plot of Ian Fleming's novel.