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Christopher Barry
British television director

Christopher Barry

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British television director
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Greenwich Peninsula, United Kingdom
Place of death
Banbury, United Kingdom
Age
88 years
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Biography

Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014) was a British television director best known for his work on the science-fiction series Doctor Who. He also directed the direct to video Doctor Who spin-off Downtime in 1995.

Life and career

Barry's work on Doctor Who covered the longest span of any director during the original run of the series, having overseen episodes from 1963 until 1979.

Among Barry's other television credits were episodes of Compact (1962), 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). His other science-fiction credits were for Out of the Unknown (1969), Moonbase 3 (1973) and The Tripods (1984). He appeared in a feature covering his life's work on the DVD release of the Doctor Who serial The Creature from the Pit, released in May 2010.

Barry lived in Oxfordshire in his retirement. 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.

Doctor Who credits

  • The Daleks – episodes 1, 2, 4 and 5 (1963–64)
  • The Rescue (1965)
  • The Romans (1965)
  • The Savages (1966)
  • The Power of the Daleks (1966)
  • The Dæmons (1971)
  • The Mutants (1972)
  • Robot (1974)
  • The Brain of Morbius (1976)
  • The Creature from the Pit (1979)
  • Downtime (1995)
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