Английская Википедия:Christopher Barry
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Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014)[1] was a British television director. He worked extensively in BBC television drama and became best known for his work on the science fiction series Doctor Who.[2] He also directed the direct to video Doctor Who spin-off Downtime in 1995.[3]
Early life and education
Barry attended the University of Cambridge and served in the Royal Air Force.[2]
Career
Barry became a trainee at Ealing Studios and worked on the film The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) as an assistant director to Basil Dearden. He subsequently joined the BBC as a production assistant in 1955.[2]
In 1963 Barry was asked by producer Verity Lambert to be one of the initial directors of the BBC's new science fiction television series Doctor Who.[2] Barry's work on Doctor Who went on to cover the longest span of any director during the original run of the series, overseeing episodes until 1979.[4]
Among Barry's other television credits were episodes of Compact (1962), Ann Veronica (1964), Paul Temple (1970–71), Z-Cars (1971–78), Poldark (1975), The Onedin Line (1977), All Creatures Great and Small (1978–80), Juliet Bravo (1980) and Dramarama (1989).[5][6] His other science fiction credits were for Out of the Unknown (1969), Moonbase 3 (1973) and The Tripods (1984).[4] He appeared in a feature covering his life's work on the DVD release of the Doctor Who serial The Creature from the Pit (1979), released in May 2010.[7]
Personal life
Barry lived in Oxfordshire in his retirement.[8] He died following an escalator fall in a shopping centre in Banbury on 7 February 2014. An inquest into his death was held on 5 June 2014.[9]
Doctor Who credits
- The Daleks – episodes 1, 2, 4 and 5 (1963–64)
- The Rescue (1965)[10]
- The Romans (1965)[1]
- The Savages (1966)[1]
- The Power of the Daleks (1966)[1]
- The Dæmons (1971)[1]
- The Mutants (1972)[1]
- Robot (1974)[1]
- The Brain of Morbius (1976)[1]
- The Creature from the Pit (1979)[1]
- Downtime (1995)
References
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