David Webb (anti-censorship campaigner)

David Alec Webb (6 March 1931 – 30 June 2012) was a British actor and anti-censorship campaigner.

He completed his National Service from 1950 to 1952, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1952 to 1954.

He worked in television from the late 1950s onwards appearing in scores of programmes including Emergency Ward 10, Dixon of Dock Green, and Doctor Who,[2] among many others.

In April 1976, he set up the anti-censorship pressure group, the National Campaign for the Repeal of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act;[4] this was later amended to National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts (NCROPA).

NCROPA was very active from its inception through the 1980s, and in 1983 Webb stood as the anti-censorship candidate against the incumbent Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her Finchley constituency.