Cyril Alexander Garland Luckham (25 July 1907 – 8 February 1989) was an English film, television and theatre actor.

[1] The son of a paymaster captain in the Royal Navy, Cyril Luckham was educated at RNC Osborne and Dartmouth and briefly followed his father into the service.

Luckham made his West End debut as Torvald Helmer in A Doll's House at the Arts Theatre in July 1945.

[6] Luckham played the White Guardian in the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who.

[10][11] Luckham was a familiar face as a character actor in the 1970s: playing the puppet prime minister in 1971's dystopian TV drama The Guardians, in which the British state becomes one policed by the ubiquitous Guardians;[12] The 7th Duke of Marlborough, in the 1974 Thames mini-series Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill; Father O'Hara, in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em;[9] the benevolent grandfather, in The Cedar Tree, (a series that ran on ATV from 1975 to 1979);[13] in the 1975 Wodehouse Playhouse episode, 'A Voice from the Past'; as Mr. Luffy, in an episode of the 1978 TV series based on the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton; as the evil psychic, Edward Drexel, in the 1979 supernatural thriller series The Omega Factor; and, as the equitable schoolboard chairman of 'Bamfylde', in the 1980 Andrew Davies (writer)' adaptation of To Serve Them All My Days.