Date | Name | Age | Cinematic Credibility |
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4 January | Brian Gibson | 59 | television director ( Horizon , Blue Remembered Hills ) |
9 January | Lyndon Brook | 77 | actor ( I, Claudius , The Avengers , The New Avengers , Crown Court ) |
27 January | Rikki Fulton | 79 | Scottish actor and comedian, surviving half of Francie and Josie |
29 January | James Saunders | 79 | television scriptwriter ( Bloomers ) |
26 February | Russell Hunter | 79 | actor ( Callan , The Gaffer ) |
7 March | Michael Stringer | 79 | television production designer ( The Hound of the Baskervilles , Paradise Postponed ) |
8 March | Robin Hunter | 74 | actor ( Up Pompeii , Poirot ) |
11 March | Adrian Ropes | 62 | Egyptian-born British actor ( Emergency – Ward 10 , The Avengers , Randall and Hopkirk ) |
13 March | Max Harris | 85 | television theme composer ( Porridge , Open All Hours , The Singing Detective ) |
18 March | Richard Marner | 82 | Russian-born British actor (Colonel Von Strohm in 'Allo 'Allo! ) |
28 March | Sir Peter Ustinov | 82 | British actor ( Thirteen at Dinner , Dead Man's Folly ) |
29 March | Hubert Gregg | 89 | BBC broadcaster |
30 March | Alistair Cooke | 95 | BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator |
13 April | Caron Keating | 41 | television presenter ( Blue Peter ) |
17 April | Bruce Boa | 73 | actor ( Fawlty Towers ) |
19 April | Philip Locke | 76 | actor ( Doctor Who ) |
3 May | Anthony Ainley | 71 | actor ( Doctor Who ) |
14 May | Shaun Sutton | 85 | writer, director, producer and longest-serving Head of Drama at BBC Television. |
16 May | Harry Elton | 74 | television producer ( Coronation Street ) |
29 May | Jack Rosenthal [135] | 72 | television scriptwriter ( Coronation Street , That Was the Week That Was ) |
3 June | Harold Goodwin | 86 | actor ( Minder , All Creatures Great and Small , That's My Boy ) |
6 June | Judy Campbell | 88 | actress |
18 June | Frederick Jaeger | 76 | German-born British actor ( Doctor Who ) |
19 June | Colin McCormack | 62 | actor ( Dixon of Dock Green , EastEnders ) |
23 June | Peter Birrel | 68 | actor ( Frontier in Space , Alexander the Greatest ) |
1 July | Peter Barnes | 73 | television scriptwriter |
3 July | John Barron | 83 | actor ( The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ) |
17 July | Pat Roach | 67 | actor ( Auf Wiedersehen, Pet , The Last Place on Earth ) |
28 July | Alexei de Keyser | 36 | television producer |
30 July | Ali Abbasi | 42 | Pakistani-born British television presenter |
7 August | Bernard Levin | 75 | journalist and broadcaster ( That Was the Week That Was ) |
13 August | Peter Woodthorpe | 72 | actor ( Only Fools and Horses , Inspector Morse ) |
18 August | Hugh Manning | 83 | actor ( Emmerdale , Mrs Thursday ) |
1 September | Richard Everitt | 71 | television producer ( Coronation Street ) |
7 September | Fritha Goodey | 31 | actress |
10 September | Glyn Owen | 76 | actor ( Emergency – Ward 10 , Howards' Way ) |
29 September | Christopher Hancock | 76 | actor ( EastEnders ) |
6 October | Pete McCarthy | 51 | television presenter |
13 October | Ivor Wood | 72 | Children's TV director ( The Magic Roundabout , The Herbs , The Wombles , Paddington Bear , Postman Pat etc.) |
14 October | Sheila Keith | 84 | actress ( Crossroads , The Pallisers ) |
28 October | Graham Roberts | 75 | actor ( Z-Cars ) |
6 November | Fred Dibnah | 66 | presenter and steeplejack |
9 November | Emlyn Hughes | 57 | Former footballer and A Question of Sport captain |
28 November | Molly Weir | 94 | actress ( Rentaghost ) |
11 December | Christopher Blake | 55 | actor ( Mixed Blessings , That's My Boy ) |
19 December | Richard Best | 88 | television director ( The Avengers ) |
21 December | Michael Forrest | 72 | actor |
26 December | Garard Green | 80 | actor and commentator (Forty Glorious Years) |