Tim Barlow

Tim Barlow (18 January 1936-20 January 2023 ) played Tyssan in the Doctor Who television story Destiny of the Daleks.

Personal life
He was deaf, which is the result of an incident with a rifle during his army service. In 2008, almost 30 years after the time of filming of Doctor Who, he received a, allowing him to partially hear again.

Career
He has appeared in films such as with  (playing a blind man) and  with Simon Pegg. Barlow has written and performed in autobiographical one-man shows such as My Army, about his experience in the military in the 1960s.

His experience with the cochlear implant was the subject of a BBC radio program, Earfull - From Silence into Sound.