I decided to look up who played the alt reality Kryten in The Inquisitor …

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

and found this
Tim Yeates – only has three IMDB credits
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2257673/
Holoship – Sam Murray
The Inquisitor – Second Kryten
Terrorform – Hooded Horde 

Curious, I searched Tim Yeates to see if I can find anything that might reveal why his only 3 credits are in Red Dwarf. Presuming he might turn out to have been part of the production in some uncredited way and in three episodes they put him in a costume and on one occasion gave him a line.
But what I found was that he founded a charity in 2009, and then sadly died of leukaemia in 2015 at 47
I can’t say for absolute certainty it’s the same man, but if it’s not they sure share a resemblance.  Particularly in the smile.

https://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/20421423.charity-founders-death-following-cancer-battle/

https://aliveactivities.org/our-history/

What I can’t quite square is Kryten

He doesn’t quite carry his features in the way Robert or Dominic Coleman do, but I’ll buy it.

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[Warbodog]

That’s amazing new trivia to me. I guess unknown/underreported because Sam Murray wasn’t a speaking part.

[clem]

There’s no mention of him being in Terrorform on this page on TOS, even though it lists several of the Hooded Horde, but it does say he was a Kryten stand-in for D&A. 

https://reddwarf.co.uk/series/5/cast-and-crew/

Substantiated by this article, which also states that Jake Abraham was a Lister stand-in. 

https://www.reddwarf.info/series/5/casting/ 

[Technopeasant]

What is kind of sad is none of us knew to commemorate him in 2015. Another fifth Dwarfer.

[Technopeasant]

What is kind of sad is none of us knew to commemorate him in 2015. Another fifth or sixth Dwarfer.

[Technopeasant]

Or a seventh or eighth…

[Jonsmad]

So in the timeline where Kryten is chosen to be erased, The Inquisitor had also just erased useless John Warburton, and we end up seeing the shake down of the non event of the Mamet & Murray Wedding!! 

Thanks for the new head cannon. :-) 

[Captain Bollocks]

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