Who plays the creator of The Yellow House in Doctor Who?
Tony Curran
Title: Ian Virgo
Passage: Virgo was born in Glendale, California and moved to Caldicot, Wales in 1987, so has dual American and British nationality. Virgo was a pupil at Caldicot Comprehensive School and appeared in a number of school productions. He left school after his GCSEs and completed a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts at Coleg Gwent's Cross Key's campus. He later studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London before taking up a career in acting. He has appeared in "Band of Brothers", "Black Hawk Down", "Casualty", Rise of the Footsoldier and "EastEnders", playing Wayne Thompson. He has many relatives in South Wales. In 2009, he appeared in the BBC Wales commissioned, Tony Jordan produced hospital drama "Crash" as Senior House Doctor Alun Gethin. He Played Louis in "Doctors" in 2010.
Title: Jean Charles Faget
Passage: Jean Charles Faget was a medical doctor born on June 26, 1818 in New Orleans. He is best known for the Faget sign—a medical sign that is the unusual combination of fever and bradycardia. The sign is an important diagnostic symptom of yellow fever.
Title: Les Arènes
Passage: Les Arènes is a painting by Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles, in November or December 1888, during the period of time when Paul Gauguin was living with him in The Yellow House. The bullfight season in Arles that year started on Easter Sunday 1April and ended on 21October. Van Gogh's painting is therefore not a study from nature but done from memory. Gauguin encouraged van Gogh to work in the studio in this manner. The painting may not be finished as the paint is very thinly applied, and patches of bare jute show through in places.
Title: Vincent and the Doctor
Passage: Intrigued by an ominous figure in one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings, alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) go back in time to meet Van Gogh (Tony Curran) and discover that Provence has been plagued by an invisible monster, known as the Krafayis, which only Van Gogh can see. The Doctor and Amy work with Van Gogh to defeat the Krafayis, but in their attempt to have Van Gogh realise his legacy through bringing him to the future they ultimately realise that not all of time can be rewritten and there are some evils which are out of the Doctor's reach.
Les Arènes Vincent and the Doctor