Christopher Barry
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Christopher Barry | |
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| Born | Christopher Chisholm Barry 20 September 1925 East Greenwich, London, England, UK |
| Died | 7 February 2014 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | Television director |
| Years active | 1949–2000 |
| Television | Doctor Who |
Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014) was a British television director best known for his work on the science-fiction series Doctor Who.
Life and career
Barry's work on Doctor Who covered the longest span of any director during the original run of the series, having overseen episodes from 1963 until 1979. He was one of only three (the others being Douglas Camfield and Lennie Mayne) to direct all of the first four actors to play the Doctor – William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. He also directed the direct-to-video Doctor Who spin-off, Downtime (1995).[citation needed]
Among Barry's other television credits were episodes of Compact (1962), Paul Temple (1970-71), Z-Cars (1971-78), Poldark (1975), The Onedin Line (1977), All Creatures Great and Small (1978-80), Juliet Bravo (1980) and Dramarama (1983). His other science-fiction credits were for Out of the Unknown (1969), Moonbase 3 (1973) and The Tripods (1984). He appeared in a feature covering his life's work on the DVD release of the Doctor Who serial The Creature from the Pit, released in May 2010. He also appeared in The Cult of ... The Tripods on BBC Four.[citation needed]
Barry lived in Oxfordshire in his retirement. He died following an escalator fall in a shopping centre in Banbury on 7 February 2014. An inquest into his death is due to be held on 5 June 2014.[1]
Doctor Who credits
- The Daleks – episodes 1, 2, 4 and 5 (1963–64)
- The Rescue (1965)
- The Romans (1965)
- The Savages (1966)
- The Power of the Daleks (1966)
- The Dæmons (1971)
- The Mutants (1972)
- Robot (1974)
- The Brain of Morbius (1976)
- The Creature from the Pit (1979)
External links
References
- ^ a b "Doctor Who director dies after escalator fall". The Daily Telegraph. London: Telegraph Media Group. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.