Donald Monat is best known for Fraud!, Five Guineas a Week, and The Straker Special.

Donald Monat is a gifted veteran actor, writer, producer and director whose career has taken him all over the world. He has, at different stages of his career, been a top-line star of South African radio, produced and performed comedy revues on the London stage, made his own feature and short films, worked as a voice-artiste in the USA and has, most recently, published a Sherlock Holmes novel, The Merchant of Death, co-written with his wife, June Dixon.

Between 1971 and 1973, Donald played the central role of John Steed in the South African radio adaptation of The Avengers made at Sonovision Studios, Johannesburg.