Sunday, January 1, 2023

WHOBITUARIES 2022


As we usually do with each "Who's On First?", we pay tribute to those actors, directors, and writers with connections to 'Doctor Who' who have passed away in this past year.  I may have missed a few and I will add them when I find out about them.... 






ANN DAVIES - Jenny in “The Dalek Invasion Of Earth” (5 episodes)

LYNDA BARON - Unseen Ballad Singer in “The Gunfighters” (4 episodes), Captain Wrack in “Enlightenment”, Val in “Closing Time”

VALENTINE PALMER - Monia in “Day Of The Daleks”

STEPHEN CHURCHETT - Bill in “Attack Of The Cybermen” (1 episode)

HENRY LINCOLN (HENRY SOSKIN) - Writer of “The Abominable Snowmen”, “The Web Of Fear”, “The Dominators” plus credited as the creator of Sir Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart in “Enemy Of The Bane Parts 1 & 2”

STEWART BEVAN - Professor Clifford Jones in “The Green Death,” “Global Conspiracy?,” “Hello, Boys,” and “Return Of The Autons”; Inspector Nettles in audio drama “Midwinter Murders” [No picture]

KENNETH IVES - Toba in “The Dominators”

SONNY CALDINEZ - Kemel in “Evil Of The Daleks,” Turoc in “The Ice Warriors,” An Ice Warrior in “Seeds Of Earth,” Ssorg in “The Curse Of Peladon,” Sskel in “The Monster Of Peladon”

JEREMY YOUNG - Kai in “An Unearthly Child” (3 episodes), Gordon Lowery in “Mission To The Unknown”

DAVID WARNER - Professor Grisenko in “Cold War” and he played the Doctor (The Unbound Doctor) in audio dramas - “Doctor Who Unbound” and “The New Adventures Of Bernice Summerfield,” and also as Professor Boston Schooner in “Deimos”.

BERNARD CRIBBINS - Wilf Mott in 9 episodes so far.  He will be in the 60th anniversary special.  Tom Campbell in the feature film “Daleks’ Invasion Of Earth,” making him the only actor to be in the movies and the revived series.  He was Arnold Korns in the audio drama “Horror Of Glam Rock”.  
(This loss hurt….)

BILL TURNBULL - Played himself as host of ‘Breakfast’ in “The Wedding Of River Song” in which he interviewed Charles Dickens.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II - Her Royal Televersion influenced many TV shows and ‘Doctor Who’ was no exception.  Her Majesty appeared in archival footage and in a photograph, and was portrayed by several actresses.  “Silver Nemesis”, “The Christmas Invasion”, “The Idiot's Lantern”, “Voyage of the Damned”.

CHRIS BOUCHER - Writer of “The Face Of Evil” 1-4, “The Robots Of Death” 1-4 (my first ‘Doctor Who’ story), “Image Of The Fendahl” 1-4

JANE SHERWIN - Lady Jennifer Buckingham, “The War Of Games” 1-5

If you know of anyone whom I might have missed, let me know.

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