Christopher Barry

Christopher Barry
Birth date:	20 September 1925
Death date:	7 February 2014
Work in the DWU
Stories:	see credits section
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Z-Cars, All Creatures Great and Small
IMDb profile

Christopher Barry (20 September 1925-7 February 2014) directed several Doctor Who serials, beginning with several episodes of the very first Dalek story. His other television credits included Compact, 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.

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

Filmography

Doctor Who stories directed

• The Daleks (episodes 1,2,4,5 and 7 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 No. 50: Elisabeth Sladen

Bibliography

• The End (published in Drabble Who)

External links

• Christopher Barry at the Internet Movie Database