2020 (people)

2020 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

In 2020, a number of people important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs either died or were born.

January

• 2 January - Actor Edmund Kente died.
• 3 January - Actor Derek Acorah died.
• 3 January - Actor Christopher Beeny died.
• 7 January - Actor Tex Fuller died.
• 9 January - Film editor John Griffiths died.
• 10 January - Executive producer Alex Beaton died.
• 13 January - Actor Norman Hartley died.
• 16 January - Actor Gillian Martell died.
• 16 January - Script editor Alan Pattillo died.
• 17 January - Actor Derek Fowlds died.
• 25 January - Actor Alan Harris died.
• 28 January - Actor Nicholas Parsons died.

February

• 14 February - Actor John Shrapnel died.

March

• March - Actor Tim Oldroyd died.
• 13 March - Actor Ivor Danvers died.
• 14 March - Actor and costume recreator Paul Lunn died.
• 15 March - Actor Roy Hudd died.
• 20 March - Actor Peter Stenson died.
• 23 March - Actor David Collings died.
• 26 March - Actor Hamish Wilson died.
• 30 March - Actor Barry Wilsher died.

April

• 5 April - Actor Honor Blackman died.
• 6 April - Actor James Garbutt died.
• 7 April - Actor Peter Badger died.
• 12 April - Actor Tim Brooke-Taylor died.
• 14 April - Writer Pip Baker died.
• 16 April - Documentary producer Tony Cash died.
• 30 April - Writer Wally K Daly died.

May

• 11 May - Assistant floor manager Catherine Childs died.
• 21 May - Actor Peter Stanton died.
• 26 May - Actor Cynthia Etherington died.

June

• 1 June - Assistant floor manager Nick Laughland died.
• 6 June - Actor Malcolm Terris died.
• 8 June - Vision mixer Derek Kibble died.
• 16 June - Actor John Benfield died.
• 20 June - Actor Philip Latham died.
• 28 June - Actor Louis Mahoney died.

July

• 3 July - Actor Earl Cameron died.
• 7 July - Actor David Cannon died.
• 11 July - Cameraman Colin Reid died.
• 14 July - Actor Maurice Roëves died.
• 18 July - Actor Peggy Batchelor died.

August

• 4 August - Actor Harry Dickman died.
• 12 August - Actor John Rolfe died.

September

• September - Actor Mike Lennox died.
• 6 September - Actor Joan Blackham died.
• 10 September - Actor Diana Rigg died.
• 13 September - Actor Conrad Asquith died.
• 19 September - Actor John Cannon died.
• 26 September - Actor Jimmy Winston died.
• 30 September - Actor Frank Windsor died.

October

• 2 October - Costume designer Nicholas Bullen died.
• 8 October - Actor Philip Anthony died.
• 9 October - Production manager Tony Redston died.

November

• 2 November - Actor John Sessions died.
• 5 November - Actor Timothy Craven died.
• 5 November - Actor Geoffrey Palmer died.
• 6 November - Actor John Fraser died.
• 13 November - Actor Philip Voss died.
• 23 November - Actor Louise Pajo died.
• 28 November - Actor Dave Prowse died.

December

• 9 December - Actor Tony Harwood died.
• 10 December - Actor Barbara Windsor died.
• 13 December - Writer Philip Martin died.
• 17 December - Actor Jeremy Bulloch died.
• 17 December - Actor David Ashford died.
• 19 December - Actor Dorian Van Bramm died.
• 29 December - Actor Robin Hargrave died.
• 30 December - Actor Peter Craze died.

Unknown

• Actor Norman Bacon died.
• Actor Ralph Harvey died.
• The Soundhouse engineer Dan Hennessey died.
• Actor Andrew Jacks died.
• Actor Steve King died.
• Actor Don Paul died.
• Visual effects assistant Bill Pearson died.
• Cameraman Nick Squires died.
• Dresser Neil Sweetmore died.