1997 (people)

1997 in

---

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

In 1997, a number of people important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs either died or were born.

• January - Camera operator Geoff Meldrum died.
• 2 January - Actor Tony Snell died.
• 8 January - Actor Tom Bowman died.
• 19 January - Artist Richard Jennings died.
• 23 January - Actor Shaheen Jafargholi was born.
• 30 January - Director Nicholas Mallett died.
• 30 January - Actor Michael Owen died.
• 8 February - Actor Elroy Josephs died.
• 25 February - Actor Arthur Hewlett died.
• 9 March - Writer Terry Nation died.
• 13 March - Actor Ronald Fraser died.
• 29 March - Actor Thaddea Graham was born.
• 6 April - Actor Meriel Hobson died.
• 15 April - Actor Maisie Williams was born.
• 19 June - Director Julia Smith died.
• 22 June - Actor Don Henderson died.
• 7 July - Actor Royston Tickner died.
• 16 July - Actor Hugh Martin died.
• 19 July - Actor Amita Suman was born.
• 27 July - Actor Brian Glover died.
• 4 August - Film cameraman Dick Bush died.
• 16 August - Actor Robin Wentworth died.
• 20 August - Actor Bill Mitchell died.
• 22 August - Actor Jacob Dudman was born.
• 7 September - News reporter Alex MacIntosh died.
• 12 September - Actor Leonard Maguire died.
• 14 September - Actor Robert Cawdron died.
• 16 September - Actor Oscar Lloyd was born.
• 17 September - Actor Brian Hall died.
• 19 September - Actor Jack May died.
• 20 September - Actor Roy Pattison died.
• 25 September - Director Paul Bernard died.
• 30 September - BBC Head of Serials Graeme MacDonald died.
• October - Film editor William Symon died.
• 5 October - Actor Andrew Keir died.
• 6 October - Actor Adrienne Hill died.
• 13 October - Writer Ian Stuart Black died.
• 20 October - Actor John Bell was born.
• 20 October - Actor Ron Tarr died.
• 30 October - Head of Drama Sydney Newman died.
• 17 November - Actor Roma Woodnutt died.
• 14 December - Actor Stubby Kaye died.
• 16 December - Actor Leon Eagles died.

Footnotes