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In 2020, a number of people important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs either died or were born.
January
- 2 January - Actor Edmund Kente died.[1]
- 3 January -
- Actor Derek Acorah died.[2]
- Actor Christopher Beeny died.[3]
- 7 January - Actor Tex Fuller died.[4][5]
- 9 January - Film editor John Griffiths died.[6]
- 10 January - Executive producer Alex Beaton died.[7]
- 13 January - Actor Norman Hartley died.[8]
- 16 January -
- Actor Gillian Martell died.[9]
- Script editor Alan Pattillo died.[10]
- 17 January - Actor Derek Fowlds died.[11]
- 25 January - Actor Alan Harris died.[12]
- 28 January - Actor Nicholas Parsons died.[13]
February
- 14 February - Actor John Shrapnel died.[14][15]
March
- 13 March - Actor Ivor Danvers died.[16]
- 14 March - Actor and costume recreator Paul Lunn died.[17]
- 15 March - Actor Roy Hudd died.[18]
- 20 March - Actor Peter Stenson died.[19]
- 23 March - Actor David Collings died.[20]
- 26 March - Actor Hamish Wilson died.[21]
- 30 March - Actor Barry Wilsher died.[22]
- Unknown - Actor Tim Oldroyd died.[23]
April
- 5 April - Actor Honor Blackman died.[24]
- 6 April - Actor James Garbutt died.[25]
- 7 April - Actor Peter Badger died.
- 12 April - Actor Tim Brooke-Taylor died.[26]
- 14 April - Writer Pip Baker died.[27]
- 16 April - Documentary producer Tony Cash died.[28]
- 30 April - Writer Wally K Daly died.[29]
May
- 11 May - Assistant floor manager Catherine Childs died.[30]
- 21 May - Actor Peter Stanton died.
- 26 May - Actor Cynthia Etherington died.[31]
June
- 1 June - Assistant floor manager Nick Laughland died.[32]
- 6 June - Actor Malcolm Terris died.[33]
- 8 June - Vision mixer Derek Kibble died.[34]
- 16 June - Actor John Benfield died.[35]
- 20 June - Actor Philip Latham died.[36]
- 28 June - Actor Louis Mahoney died.[37]
July
- 3 July - Actor Earl Cameron died.[38]
- 7 July - Actor David Cannon died.[39]
- 11 July - Cameraman Colin Reid died.[40]
- 14 July - Actor Maurice Roëves died.[41]
- 18 July - Actor Peggy Batchelor died.[42]
August
- 4 August - Actor Harry Dickman died.[43]
- 12 August - Actor John Rolfe died.[44]
September
- 6 September - Actor Joan Blackham died.[45]
- 10 September - Actor Diana Rigg died.[46]
- 13 September - Actor Conrad Asquith died.[47]
- 19 September - Actor John Cannon died.[48]
- 26 September - Actor Jimmy Winston died.[49]
- 30 September - Actor Frank Windsor died.[50]
- Unknown - Actor Mike Lennox died.[51]
October
- 2 October - Costume designer Nicholas Bullen died.[52]
- 8 October - Actor Philip Anthony died.[53]
- 9 October - Production manager Tony Redston died.[54]
November
- 2 November - Actor John Sessions died.[55]
- 5 November - Actor Timothy Craven died.[56]
- 5 November - Actor Geoffrey Palmer died.[57]
- 6 November - Actor John Fraser died.[58]
- 13 November - Actor Philip Voss died.[59]
- 23 November - Actor Louise Pajo died.[60]
- 28 November - Actor Dave Prowse died.[61]
December
- 9 December - Actor Tony Harwood died.
- 10 December - Actor Barbara Windsor died.[62]
- 13 December - Writer Philip Martin died.[63]
- 17 December - Actor Jeremy Bulloch died.[64]
- 17 December - Actor David Ashford died.[65]
- 19 December - Actor Dorian Van Bramm died.[66]
- 29 December - Actor Robin Hargrave died.[67]
- 30 December - Actor Peter Craze died.[68]
Unknown
- Actor Norman Bacon died.[69]
- Actor Ralph Harvey died.[70]
- The Soundhouse engineer Dan Hennessey died.[70]
- Actor Andrew Jacks died.[70]
- Actor Steve King died.[70]
- Actor Don Paul died.[71]
- Visual effects assistant Bill Pearson died.[70]
- Cameraman Nick Squires died.[70]
- Dresser Neil Sweetmore died.[72]
Footnotes
- ↑ DWM 549
- ↑ Famous Birthdays
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ DWM 561
- ↑ DWM 548
- ↑ Dignity Funerals
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ DWM 549
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ DWM 556
- ↑ The Telegraph
- ↑ Toby Hadoke
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ HD Warrior
- ↑ DWM 556
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ The Independent
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ DWM 553
- ↑ DWM 553
- ↑ DWM 575
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ DWM 556
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ DWM 594
- ↑ DWM 556
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ DWM 556
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ DWM 557
- ↑ Radio Times
- ↑ DWM 594
- ↑ Imperial Signings
- ↑ DWM 557
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ DWM 558
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
- ↑ DWM 558
- ↑ BBC News
- ↑ DWM 569
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Aveleyman
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Famous Birthdays
- ↑ Doctor Who Guide
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ downthetubes.net
- ↑ DWM 594
- ↑ The Semaphore Circular No 707, March 2021 (pgs.32-34)
- ↑ People Pill
- ↑ Equity Magazine Autumn 2020
- ↑ 70.0 70.1 70.2 70.3 70.4 70.5 Doctor Who In Memoriam 2020
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Forum for former BBC staff