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, Thirty Minute Theatre, Paul Temple, Moonbase 3, Poldark, Angles, Nicholas Nickleby, All Creatures Great and Small, The Tripods
IMDb profile

Christopher Barry (20 September 1925-7 February 2014) directed several Doctor Who television stories, beginning with several episodes of the 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 appeared uncredited as the first past Doctor in TV: The Brain of Morbius.

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
• Myth Makers 50: Elisabeth Sladen

Bibliography

• The End (published in Drabble Who)

External links

• Christopher Barry at the Internet Movie Database