Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt was a Polish-born actor who appeared in the Doctor Who serials The Time Monster and Warriors of the Deep as Galleia and Solow respectively.

During World War II, Pitt and her mother were imprisoned in a German concentration camp. After the war and a failed marriage in America, she returned to Europe. Most of Pitt's work orientated around the horror genre, specifically with Hammer Film Productions. It was through this work that she came to be well known. Pitt returned to the big screen in 2000 with the film The Asylum, which co-starred Colin Baker.

In 1984, Pitt and her husband Tony Rudlin were commissioned to submit a script for Doctor Who. The story, entitled The Macro Men, was one of a number of ideas submitted by the couple, after she had appeared in Warriors of the Deep. The plot concerned events surrounding the Philadelphia Experiment with the Doctor and Peri arriving on board the USS Eldridge in Philadelphia harbour in 1943 and becoming involved in a battle against microscopic humanoid creatures.

The writers had several meetings with script editor Eric Saward and carried out numerous revisions, but the story progressed no further than the preparation of a draft first episode script under the new title. The story was released in June 2010 by Big Finish for The Lost Stories audios as The Macros.

Pitt died in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, a few days after collapsing, and two days after her seventy-third birthday.