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, 1971-1972, 1975-1976, 1979, 1995
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Man in the White Suite, The Love Lottery, The Ship that Died of Shame, Jane Eyre, Compact, Smugglers Bay, Z-Cars, Paul Temple, Moonbase 3, Poldark, Angles, Nicholas Nickleby, All Creatures Great and Small, The Tripods
IMDb profile

Christopher Barry directed several Doctor Who serials, beginning with several episodes of the very 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, including Out of the Unknown, Moonbase 3 and The Tripods.

He was one of only three people to direct Doctor Who serials featuring William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker; the other two were Douglas Camfield and Lennie Mayne.

He played the First ''Morbius'' Doctor in TV: The Brain of Morbius meaning he played the earliest known incarnation of the Doctor, predating 'the original' by several incarnations.

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

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
• The Myth Makers No. 50: Elisabeth Sladen

Bibliography

• The End (published in Drabble Who)

External links

• Christopher Barry at the Internet Movie Database