Christopher Barry

Christopher Barry
Birth date:	20 September 1925
Death date:	7 February 2014
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Director
Stories:	See credits section
Main time period active:	1963-1966, 1971-72, 1974-1976, 1979 & 1995
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Man in the White Suit, The Love Lottery, The Ship that Died of Shame, Jane Eyre, Compact, Smugglers Bay, Take a Pair of Private Eyes, Z-Cars, Thirty Minute Theatre, Paul Temple, Moonbase 3, Poldark, Angles, Nicholas Nickleby, All Creatures Great and Small, The Tripods
IMDb profile

Christopher Barry (born Christopher Chisholm Barry on 20 September 1925 in Greenwich, London, died 7 February 2014) directed several Doctor Who television stories, beginning with several episodes of the first Dalek story.

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 one of the previous incarnations of the Doctor featured in The Brain of Morbius, which he directed. It is the only episode he directed for which he kept the script, as well as keeping his original photograph as the Doctor that was used for the sequence. (DWM 541) He is the only one not to reappear in The Timeless Children.

Career

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.

Death

Barry spent his retirement living in Oxfordshire and died on 7 February 2014 following a fall down an escalator at a shopping centre in Banbury.

Personal life

He was distantly related to fellow Doctor Who director Morris Barry, who was actively directing episodes of Doctor Who at the same time. (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

Doctor Who-related works directed

• Downtime
• Myth Makers 50: Elisabeth Sladen

Documentary appearances

• Mounting The Rescue
• What has "The Romans" ever done for us?
• The Devil Rides Out
• Mutt Mad
• Getting a Head
• Team Erato
• Flight Through Eternity (archive recordings)

Bibliography

Short story

• The End (published in 1993 charity anthology Drabble Who)

External links

• Christopher Barry at MUBI

• Christopher Barry at the Internet Movie Database