2015 deaths in British television

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This is a list of deaths that took place in 2015 related to British television.

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January

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
1 January Fiona Cumming [1] 77Actress and director ( Doctor Who )
Barbara Atkinson [2] 88Actress
3 January Roger Kitter [3] 65Actor ( 'Allo 'Allo! )
6 January Lance Percival [4] 81Comedian, actor and singer ( That Was the Week That Was , Up Pompeii! )
7 January Nancy Thomas [5] 96Television producer ( Monitor )
10 January Brian Clemens [6] 83Scriptwriter and producer ( The Avengers , The New Avengers , The Professionals )
19 January Anne Kirkbride [7] 60Actress ( Coronation Street ) Deirdre Barlow
Bob Symes [8] 90Inventor and television presenter
21 January Pauline Yates [9] 85Actress ( The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin )
23 January Barrie Ingham [10] 82Actor ( The Great Mouse Detective , Doctor Who , A Challenge for Robin Hood )
30 January Geraldine McEwan [11] Actress ( Agatha Christie's Marple , Mapp & Lucia )

February

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
4 February Richard Bonehill [12] 67Actor and stuntman ( Doctor Who , Return of the Jedi )
14 February Pamela Cundell [13] 95Actress ( Dad's Army , EastEnders , A Fantastic Fear of Everything )
Alan Howard [14] 77Actor ( The Lord of the Rings )
15 February Eileen Essell [15] 92Actress ( Duplex , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , The Producers )
25 FebruaryBarry Newbery [16] 88Production designer ( Doctor Who )

March

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
6 March Osi Rhys Osmond [17] 71Painter and television presenter.
10 March Stuart Wagstaff [18] 90Entertainer
13 March Vincent Wong 87Actor ( Doctor Who , James Bond , Ministry of Mayhem )
17 March Shaw Taylor [19] 90Television presenter and actor ( Police 5 )
21 March Jackie Trent [20] 74Singer-songwriter (co-authored Neighbours theme)
23 March Lil' Chris [21] 24Singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality (Rock School, CharliiTV)

April

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
2 April Dennis Marks [22] 66Television producer and music director
3 April Robert Rietti [23] 92Actor
2 April Tom Coyne [24] 84News broadcaster and television presenter ( Top Gear )
9 April Richie Benaud [25] Cricket commentator
Paul Almond [26] 83Director ( Up Series )
13 April Rex Robinson [27] 89Actor ( Doctor Who , Yes Minister , Only Fools and Horses )
Ronnie Carroll [28] 80Singer and UK Eurovision contestant (1962 and 1963)
20 April Peter Howell [29] 95Actor ( Emergency – Ward 10 , Doctor Who , Scum )
28 April Keith Harris [30] 67Ventriloquist (Orville the Duck)
30 April Nigel Terry [31] 69Actor ( Excalibur , War Requiem )

May

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
2 May Ruth Rendell [32] 85Author and novelist with Inspector Wexford and The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
13 May Derek Davis [33] [34] 67Broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ
22 May Terry Sue-Patt [35] 50Actor ( Grange Hill )
30 May Jake D'Arcy [36] [37] 69Actor ( Still Game )

June

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
1 June Charles Kennedy [38] 55Liberal Democrat leader and guest presenter of Have I Got News for You
5 June Richard Johnson [39] 87Actor ( Midsomer Murders , Waking the Dead , Silent Witness , Doc Martin )
7 June Christopher Lee [40] [41] 93Actor ( Gormenghast , The Man with the Golden Gun )
11 June Ron Moody [42] 91Actor
25 June Patrick Macnee [43] 93Actor ( The Avengers )
26 June David McAlister 64Actor ( Hollyoaks )
30 June Edward Burnham 98Actor ( Doctor Who , To Sir, with Love , The Abominable Dr. Phibes ) [44]

July

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
1 July Val Doonican [45] 88Singer and entertainer ( Sunday Night at the Palladium , The Val Doonican Show )
10 July Roger Rees [46] 71Actor and director ( Cheers , Singles , The West Wing )
29 July Peter O'Sullevan [47] 97Racing Commentator
30 JulyStuart Baggs [48] 27Candidate on The Apprentice

August

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
1 August Cilla Black [49] [50] 72Singer and television presenter ( Surprise Surprise , Blind Date , The Moment of Truth )
5 August George Cole [51] 90Actor and voice actor ( Minder , Cleopatra , My Good Friend , Mary Reilly , Dad , Tube Mice )
8 August Susan Sheridan [52] 68Actress and voice artist ( The Black Cauldron , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Noddy's Toyland Adventures , Moomin )
David Nobbs [53] 80Comedy writer and humanist ( The Two Ronnies , The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin , A Bit of a Do , Gentlemen's Relish )
9 August Jack Gold 85Film and television director ( Escape from Sobibor , The Naked Civil Servant , The Rose and the Jackal , The Chain , Goodnight Mister Tom , Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage , The Medusa Touch , Heavy Weather )
12 August Stephen Lewis [54] [55] 88Actor ( On the Buses , Oh, Doctor Beeching! , Last of the Summer Wine )
15 August Geraint Stanley Jones 79Television executive, controller of BBC Wales (1981–1989), chief executive of S4C (1989–1994)
16 August Kitty McGeever [56] [57] 48Actress and comedian ( Emmerdale , London's Burning )
25 August Colin Fry [58] 53Television medium

September

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
3 September Judy Carne [59] [60] 76Actress ( Juke Box Jury , The Rag Trade , Marks in His Diary )
19 September Brian Sewell [61] 84Writer, art critic and media personality
Jackie Collins [62] 77Actress, writer and romance novelist
22 September Derek Ware [63] Actor and stuntman ( Doctor Who )
27 September John Guillermin [64] 89Film director, writer and producer ( The Towering Inferno , King Kong , Death on the Nile , Sheena , King Kong Lives )

October

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
7 October William Mitchell 87Writer and editor ( Dalesman magazines)
8 October Hugh Scully [65] 72Presenter ( Antiques Roadshow )
Jim Diamond [66] [67] 64Singer-songwriter (recorded the Boon theme tune, "Hi Ho Silver")
Richard Davies [68] 89Actor ( Z-Cars , Please Sir! , Coronation Street )
9 October Gordon Honeycombe [69] 79Newscaster ( ITN News , TV-am )
Julia Jones 82Television writer and former actress ( Quiet as a Nun , Miss Marple , Wycliffe , Anne of Green Gables , Our Mutual Friend , Echoes , The Famous Five )
13 October Sue Lloyd-Roberts [70] 64Television journalist ( BBC News , Newsnight , ITN News )
17/18 OctoberJacky Sutton [71] 50BBC journalist and producer, Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
22 October Peter Baldwin [72] [73] 82Actor ( Coronation Street )
29 October Kenneth Gilbert 84Actor ( Doctor Who , House of Cards )

November

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
1 November Stephen Hancock [74] 89Actor (Ernest Bishop in Coronation Street )
3 November Colin Welland [75] 81Actor and screenwriter ( Z-Cars , Blue Remembered Hills )
14 November Warren Mitchell [76] [77] 89Actor ( Till Death Us Do Part , Death of a Salesman )
Saeed Jaffrey [78] 86Actor ( The Jewel in the Crown , Coronation Street )
18 November Redvers Kyle [79] 85Broadcaster, voice over artist, actor and composer
20 November Peter Dimmock [80] 94Sports journalist and BBC executive ( Grandstand , BBC Sports Personality of the Year)
Keith Michell [81] 88Actor and director ( The Six Wives of Henry VIII )
22 November Hazel Adair [82] 95Writer and producer ( Crossroads )
Robin Stewart [83] 69Actor ( Bless This House , Cromwell , The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires )
25 November Beth Rogan [84] 84Actress ( Mysterious Island )

December

DateNameAgeBroadcast credibility
2 December Anthony Valentine [85] 76Actor ( Colditz , Coronation Street , Escape to Athena )
6 December Nicholas Smith [86] 81Actor ( Are You Being Served? , Grace & Favour , Doctor Who , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit )
7 December Shirley Stelfox [87] 74Actor ( Emmerdale , Keeping Up Appearances , Coronation Street ) Edna Birch
15 December Kathy Secker [88] [89] 70Broadcaster and television presenter (Tyne Tees Television)
19 December Jimmy Hill [90] 87Footballer, football manager and football pundit ( Match of the Day )

See also

References

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