2017 (people)

2017 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

In 2017, a number of people important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs either died or were born.

• 3 January - Director Rodney Bennett died.
• 5 January - Actor Peter Thomas died.
• 17 January - Actor Philip Bond died.
• 17 January - Actor Royston Farrell died.
• 19 January - Engineering manager John Wilson died.
• 25 January - Actor John Hurt died.
• February - O.B. sound recordist Chris Holcombe died.
• 10 February - Actor Carl Conway died.
• 25 February - Actor Neil Fingleton died.
• 9 March - Actor Ann Beach died.
• 17 March - Film operations manager Ian Brindle died.
• 27 March - Actor Richard Beale died.
• 4 April - Actor Gordon Sterne died.
• 7 April - Actor Tim Piggott-Smith died.
• 13 April - Writer Eric Pringle died.
• 17 April - Actor Michael Ladkin died.
• 2 May - Actor Moray Watson died.
• 10 May - Actor Geoffrey Bayldon died.
• 2 June - Actor Peter Sallis died.
• 9 June - Actor Edward Caddick died.
• 12 June - Actor Sam Beazley died.
• 19 June - Actor Brian Cant died.
• 1 July - Studio sound recordist Chick Anthony died.
• 9 July - Film editor Clare Douglas died.
• 16 July - Actor Trevor Baxter died.
• 18 July - Actor Elisabeth Digby-Smith died.
• 21 July - Actor Deborah Watling died.
• 25 July - Actor Hywel Bennett died.
• 10 August - Actor Patrick O'Connell died.
• 13 August - Writer Victor Pemberton died.
• 18 August - Actor Kismet Delgado died.
• 18 August - Entertainer Bruce Forsyth died.
• 18 August - Actor Robin Griffith died
• 19 August - Writer Brian Aldiss died.
• 26 August - Actor Nicolas Chagrin died.
• 26 August - Actor Paul Greenhalgh died.
• 30 August - Actor Alan Cassell died.
• 15 September - Actor Albert Moses died.
• 5 October - Actor Trevor Martin died.
• 12 October - Actor Valerie Stanton died.
• 17 October - Actor Dorothy Grumbar died
• 2 November - Director Paddy Russell died.
• 4 November - Composer Dudley Simpson died.
• 5 November - Actor John Bown died.
• 6 November - Actor Scott Fredericks died.
• 14 November - Studio lighting supervisor Peter Winn died.
• 15 November - Actor Keith Barron died.
• 21 November - Actor Rodney Bewes died.
• 5 December - Actor Meic Povey died
• 19 December - Actor Jeremy Wilkin died.
• 24 December - Choreographer Geraldine Stephenson died.
• 24 December - Actor Luan Peters died.
• 25 December - Boom operator Peter Fletcher died.
• Unknown - Assistant floor manager Sue Hedden died.
• Unknown - Actor Alex Hood died.
• Unknown - Actor Dominic Letts died.
• Unknown - Make-up designer Elisabeth Moss died.
• Unknown - Actor Colin Thomas died.
• Unknown - Actor Antony Webb died.

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