#Fact1His nickname on the set of Blakes 7 (1978) was "Blint", because he was thought to be a mixture of Burt Lancaster and Clint Eastwood.2He starred as Elvis Presley in the West End stage musical "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".3He played the role of Samuel Vimes in the 1998/9 touring production of the play based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "Guards! Guards!".4He admitted in a 2004 BBC interview that he was hooked on Footballers' Wives (2002), and he would have liked to be in it.5His real surname is Birkby. When an agent advised him to change it to a more easily recognisable and pronounceable one, his father suggested the name Darrow, after the American attorney Clarence Darrow.6He is the author of Avon: A Terrible Aspect, a 1989 novel about Avon's father and Avon's own early life. Darrow's autobiography, You're Him, Aren't You? was published in 2006. Darrow narrated the 2008 audio book of Terry Nation's classic children's story 'Rebecca's World, Journey to the Forbidden Planet'.7He records voiceovers and straplines for UK Jack FM station in Oxfordshire.8His favourite music artists include Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan.9He is well known to be accident-prone with props, especially with his guns on the set of Blakes 7 (1978). In fact, he broke so many of them, the team built a special gun with an aluminium core for him. Paul suspects that the transfer to a more solid weapon model in later seasons resulted from his accidents.10He got his first cigarette from his uncle. He was five.11He was known as a "Kiss of Death" to a lot of actresses, since no female character he kissed in Blakes 7 (1978) had ever survived the episode.12He performed all his own stunts in Blakes 7 (1978). He thinks he must have been mad, because a lot of them were quite dangerous.13In 2012, he returned to the role of Kerr Avon in Big Finish Productions' Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles, a series of dramatic readings which take place during Series One before the death of Olag Gan. Darrow stars as Avon in The Turning Test and The Magnificent Four by Simon Guerrier and Counterfeit by Peter Anghelides.14In an Interview by Karen Davies and Paul Winter at the Cult TV festival in October 2003, he revealed that he wasn't really interested in science fiction until he met Isaac Asimov. Reading one of his books sparked his interest in the genre.15He is a huge fan of cinema. As a teenager, according to some interviews, he spend a lot of his time in the cinema, and usually stayed there until his mother phoned the usherette to send him home for tea.16In 2004 he was the subject of the fourth volume of MJTV's "The Actor Speaks" audio CDs, featuring frank interviews and dramatic pieces, alongside guest Peter Miles, with a piece specifically written by Tanith Lee.17He originally auditioned for the part of Blake in Blakes 7 (1978), and was later recommended for the role of Avon by Vere Lorrimer.18He stars as the cynical character Kaston Iago in the Magic Bullet's Kaldor City audio series.19Had his legs removed in in 2015 because of an operation.20He played different parts in two different Doctor Who (1963) serials - Captain Hawkins in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" and Maylin Tekker in "Timelash". He was also considered for many guest roles in the series - Persuasion in "Four to Doomsday", Captain Stapley in "Time-Flight", Valgard in "Terminus", Bulic in "Warriors of the Deep", Lytton in "Resurrection of the Daleks", and Arak in "Vengeance on Varos".21Has acted in both the James Bond franchise and the Doctor Who franchise.22He was interviewed for a part in The Bounty (1984).23He was considered for the roles of Caine, Dr, Armstrong, Bukovsky Lamson and Kelly and other roles in Lifeforce (1985).24In 2003, he, Andrew Mark Sewell, and Simon Moorhead formed a consortium called 'B7 Enterprises' that had acquired the rights acquired the rights to _"Blake's 7" (1978)_ from Terry Nation's widow. The plan was to revive the show as a mini-series, starring Darrow in his original role as Avon, but due to disagreements about the direction of the show, he has since left the consortium.25He appeared in 51 of the 52 episodes of Blakes 7 (1978), more than anyone other than Michael Keating. The only episode in which he did not appear was the pilot, Blakes 7: The Way Back (1978).