Gordon Salkilld

Gordon Salkilld was an English supporting actor best known for his portrayal of carpenter Jack Wood in the 1970s BBC cult series Survivors He also gained fame in Red Dwarf series 2 episode 2 as Gordonthe incredibly intelligent computer aboard the SS F Scott Fitzgerald who is involved in a chess game with Hollya part specially written for him by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor with whom he had previously worked on the Radio 4 series Wrinkles and as Petty Officer Parker in BBC childrens series The Doombolt Chase He also made appearances in Thriller episode The Double Kill 1975 A Touch of Frost A Very Peculiar Practice Jeeves and Wooster Shelley Ever Decreasing Circles Juliet Bravo Never the Twain and Only Fools and Horses Salkilld was active on the stage He directed and starred in a production of Tom Stoppards After Magritte at the Prince of Wales Wimbledon in 1974 He appeared on the stage in a production of Puss in Boots at Tunbridge Wells in 1974 a reviewer wrote that Salkilld was an amusing Dame