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In 1939, a number of people important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs either died or were born. Sometime this year, actors Brenda Kempner, Illarrio Bisi-Pedro and Ken Tyllsen and designer Geoffrey Kirkland were born. People with known 1939 birthdays included:
- 9 January - Actor Susannah York was born.[1]
- 20 January - Actor Paul Grist was born.[2]
- 10 February - Actor Peter Purves was born.[3]
- 11 February - Actor Bernard Finch was born.[4]
- 13 February - Costume designer Bobi Bartlett was born.[5]
- 23 February - Actor Elroy Josephs was born.[6]
- 28 February - Actor Max Arthur was born.[7]
- 2 March - Actor Hugh Walters was born.[8]
- 6 March - Actor Jonathan Newth was born.
- 8 March - Actor Badi Uzzaman was born.
- 16 March - Actor Katherine Schofield was born.
- 24 March - Actor Bruce Montague was born.
- 20 April - Actor Ray Brooks was born.
- 22 April - Actor Mark Jones was born.
- 25 April - Actor Marina Martin was born.
- 2 May - Actor Peter Dean was born.
- 5 May - Stunt arranger and actor Terry Walsh was born.
- 5 May - Actor Ian McCulloch was born.
- 19 May - Actor James Fox was born.
- 25 May - Actor Ian McKellen was born.
- 4 June - Actor John Joyce was born.
- 16 June - Film cameraman Kenneth McMillan was born.
- 11 July - Production assistant Martin Lisemore was born.
- 26 July - Writer Bob Baker was born.
- 10 August - Actor Kate O'Mara was born.
- 11 August - Actor Ian Thompson was born.
- 31 August - Actor Peter Childs was born.
- 6 September - Actor Gordon Reid was born.
- 19 September - Actor Charles Pemberton was born.
- 24 September - Actor Maurice Colbourne was born.
- 27 September - Actor Garrick Hagon was born.
- 28 September - Actor Rudolph Walker was born.[9]
- 10 October - Actor Rick James was born.[10]
- 18 October - Actor Ian East was born.
- 20 October - Actor Ian Cullen was born.[11]
- 24 October - Actor Callen Angelo was born.[12]
- 27 October - Actor John Cleese was born.
- 28 November - Actor Jonathan Burn was born.
- 8 December - Actor Jennie Linden was born.[13]
- 13 December - Actor Eric Flynn was born.
- 18 December - Writer Michael Moorcock was born.[14][15]
Footnotes
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ Howeswho
- ↑ Unclaimed Estates
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ Co-Operative Funeral Care
- ↑ BFI
- ↑ ‘Patriot’ Rick James remembered
- ↑ Celebrity Height
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ BFI
- ↑ Michael Moorcock. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved on 26 January 2019.
- ↑ Patterson, Amanda (18 December 2012). Literary Birthday - 18 December - Michael Moorcock. Writers Write. Retrieved on 26 January 2019.