Charlie Coates

 worked for Martin Kerbe. One of his jobs was gamekeeper at the Grange. Thorsuun used her powers to make him leave her, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright alone and go for a cup of tea. The command was so intense that Coates kept walking until he fell off a seventy foot tall cliff. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)

Behind the scenes
Gary Russell named Colin Jeavons as his preference for who would play the character in an imaginary film version of Invasion of the Cat People.