2023 (people)

2023 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2023

21st century | 2020s

2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2024 • 2025

In 2023, a number of people important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs either died or were born.

7 January - Actor Jean Challis died.^[1]
8 January - Actor Ray Callaghan died.^[2]
13 January - Actor Eve Pearce died.^[3]
20 January - Actor Tim Barlow died.^[4]
27 January - Actor Sylvia Syms died.^[5]
31 January - Technical manager Alan Jeffrey died.^[6]
11 February - Film collector Terry Burnett died.^[7]
15 February - Actor Richard Kane died.^[8]
March - Actor Derek Smith died.^[9]
2 March - Actor Yuri Rridneff died.^[10]
5 March - Sculptor and visual effects designer John Friedlander died.^[11]
13 March - Visual effects designer Peter Day died.^[12]
24 March - Stunt performer Richard Hammett died.^[13]
27 March - Actor Derek Hunt died.^[14]
28 March - Television presenter Paul O'Grady died.^[15]
9 April - Film operations manager George Inger died.^[16]
11 April - Actor Jim McManus died.^[17]
14 April - Actor Murray Melvin died.^[18]
18 April - Actor Terrence Hardiman died.^[19]
28 April - Film cameraman Ken Westbury died.^[20]
May - Actor Bertie Green died.^[21]
3 May - Set dresser Alan Hatchman died.
15 May - Cameraman Stanley Appel died.^[22]
15 May - Cameraman Ken Major died.^[23]
June - Designer Dinah Walker died.^[24]
June - Studio sound technician Tony Milton died.^[25]
June - Actor Alan Thompson died.^[26]
1 June - Actor Roger Squires died.^[27]
3 June - Actor Anthony Gardner died.^[28]
6 June - Stunt performer Dinny Powell died.^[29]
12 June - Actor Patricia Prior died.^[30]
27 June - Graphic designer Sid Sutton died.^[31]
7 July - Actor Ian MacFarlane died.^[32]
12 July - Actor John Nettleton died.^[33]
4 August - Technical co-ordinator Michael Langley-Evans died.^[34]
5 August - Cameraman Michael Patrick Rix died.^[35]
9 August - Actor Doreen Mantle died.^[36]
10 August - Actor Lillias Walker died.^[37]
18 August - Cameraman Bernard Newnham died.^[38]
22 August - Actor Elizabeth Norman died.^[39]
27 August - Producer Roger Ordish died.^[40]
12 September - Actor Jean Boht died.^[41]
13 September - Designer Stuart Walker died.^[42]
16 September - Cameraman Graham Reed died.^[43]
22 September - Actor John Hardwood died.^[44]
27 September - Actor Michael Gambon died.^[45]^[46]
October - Film cameraman David Whitson died.^[47]
4 October - Costume designer Shawna Trpcic died.^[48]
29 October - Actor Tony Rohr died.^[49]
30 October - Vision mixer John Barclay died.^[50]
7 November - Location sound technician Roger Guest died.^[51]
21 November - Cameraman Geoffrey Hawkes died.^[52]
27 November - Actor and stuntman Chris Webb died.
27 November - Film editor Chris Woolley died.^[53]
1 December - Actor Brigit Forsyth died.^[54]
12 December - Assistant floor manager Richard Leyland died.^[55]
25 December - Actor Richard Franklin died.^[56]
30 December - Visual effects assistant Ian Wingrove died.^[57]
Unknown - Props buyer Brenda Barker died.^[58]
Unknown - Production associate Jenny Doe died.^[59]
Unknown - Technical manager Alan Jeffery died.^[60]
Unknown - Actor Carol Sloman died.^[61]
Unknown - Actor Alan Thompson died.^[62]
Unknown - Actor Willie Jonah died.^[63]
Unknown - Visual effects designer Peter Pegrum died.^[64]
Unknown - Comic strip artist John M. Burns died.^[65]
Unknown - Actor Robin Yarnton died.^[66]
Unknown - Actor Lionel Wheeler died.^[67]

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