Christopher Barry (20 September 1925-7 February 2014[1]) directed several Doctor Who television stories, beginning with several episodes of the first Dalek story. His other television credits included Compact, Smuggler's Bay, Paul Temple, Z-Cars, Poldark, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Juliet Bravo, Dramarama and other science fiction series, which include Out of the Unknown, Moonbase 3 and The Tripods.
He was one of only three people to direct Doctor Who television stories featuring William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker; the other two were Douglas Camfield and Lennie Mayne.
He appeared uncredited as the earliestrst past Doctor in The Brain of Morbius which he directed, being the one who made Morbius explode. It is his only epiosde for which he kept the script, also keeping his original photograph as the Doctor. (DWM 541) He is the only one not to reappear in The Timeless Children.
Barry spent his retirement living in Oxfordshire and died on 7 February 2014 following an escalator fall at a shopping centre in Banbury[2].
He was distantly related to fellow Doctor Who director Morris Barry. (INFO: The Creature from the Pit)
Credits
Doctor Who stories directed
- The Daleks (episodes 1, 2, 4, and 5 only)
- The Rescue
- The Romans
- The Savages
- The Power of the Daleks
- The Dæmons
- The Mutants
- Robot
- The Brain of Morbius
- The Creature from the Pit
Documentary appearances
- Mounting The Rescue
- What has "The Romans" ever done for us?
- The Devil Rides Out
- Mutt Mad
- Getting a Head
- Team Erato
Bibliography
Short story
- The End (published in 1993 charity anthology Drabble Who)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Hayley Dixon and agencies (15 February 2014). Doctor Who director dies after escalator fall. The Telegraph. Retrieved on 16 February 2014.
