Doug Sheldon (born Bernard Bobrow, 22 June 1936)[1] is an English former pop singer, actor, and novelist.
[2] Sheldon was born into a family of carnival businesspeople, and he worked as a barker while receiving training in acting.
[3] After completing military service, he landed a role in the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone,[4] and worked in small theatre productions.
He shared a flat in London with three other then-unknown actors, including Michael Caine and Sean Connery.
[5] After the middle of the decade, Sheldon returned to a career in acting, where he appeared on TV in Doctor Who,[4] The Avengers and Triangle, and in films such as The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963), the musical comedy Just for You (1964), Some Girls Do (1969), The Spy Killer (1969), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974), Appointment with Death (1988) and Iron Eagle II (1988).