Badi Uzzaman

Badi Uzzaman was a Pakistani-British actor who worked in television and film. He was born in 1939 in Azamgarh, British India, and graduated from Government College, Abbottabad, in 1959 after studying English and Urdu. He started as a radio presenter in Pakistan, then switched to acting and appeared in dramas for Pakistan Television Corporation after the channel started in 1964. In 1984 he was cast in Malia, a Pakistani film in which he played five different characters; it was completed in London. Uzzaman left Pakistan and later became a British citizen. He appeared in numerous supporting television roles, including Coronation Street, Inspector Morse, Cracker, The Bill, Casualty and Torchwood. According to The Guardian, he was perhaps best known for his part as a hospital patient in the 1986 series The Singing Detective, opposite Michael Gambon. He died in 2011.