# 2015 deaths in British television

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

## January

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

## February

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

## March

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

## April

| Date | Name | Age | Broadcast credibility |
| 2 April | Dennis Marks | 66 | Television producer and music director |
| 3 April | Robert Rietti | 92 | Actor |
| 7 April | Tom Coyne | 84 | News broadcaster and television presenter (Top Gear) |
| 9 April | Richie Benaud | 84 | Cricket commentator |
| 9 April | Paul Almond | 83 | Director (Up Series) |
| 13 April | Rex Robinson | 89 | Actor (Doctor Who, Yes Minister, Only Fools and Horses) |
| 13 April | Ronnie Carroll | 80 | Singer and UK Eurovision contestant (1962 and 1963) |
| 20 April | Peter Howell | 95 | Actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Doctor Who, Scum) |
| 28 April | Keith Harris | 67 | Ventriloquist (Orville the Duck) |
| 30 April | Nigel Terry | 69 | Actor (Excalibur, War Requiem) |

## May

| Date | Name | Age | Broadcast credibility |
| 2 May | Ruth Rendell | 85 | Author and novelist with Inspector Wexford and The Ruth Rendell Mysteries |
| 13 May | Derek Davis | 67 | Broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ |
| 22 May | Terry Sue-Patt | 50 | Actor (Grange Hill) |
| 30 May | Jake D'Arcy | 69 | Actor (Still Game) |

## June

| Date | Name | Age | Broadcast credibility |
| 1 June | Charles Kennedy | 55 | Liberal Democrat leader and guest presenter of Have I Got News for You |
| 6 June | Richard Johnson | 87 | Actor (Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness, Doc Martin) |
| 7 June | Christopher Lee | 93 | Actor (Gormenghast, The Man with the Golden Gun) |
| 11 June | Ron Moody | 91 | Actor |
| 25 June | Patrick Macnee | 93 | Actor (The Avengers) |
| 26 June | David McAlister | 64 | Actor (Hollyoaks) |
| 30 June | Edward Burnham | 98 | Actor (Doctor Who, To Sir, with Love, The Abominable Dr. Phibes) |

## July

| Date | Name | Age | Broadcast credibility |
| 1 July | Val Doonican | 88 | Singer and entertainer (Sunday Night at the Palladium, The Val Doonican Show) |
| 10 July | Roger Rees | 71 | Actor and director (Cheers, Singles, The West Wing) |
| 29 July | Peter O'Sullevan | 97 | Racing Commentator |
| 30 July | Stuart Baggs | 27 | Candidate on The Apprentice |

## August

| Date | Name | Age | Broadcast credibility |
| 1 August | Cilla Black | 72 | Singer and television presenter (Surprise Surprise, Blind Date, The Moment of Truth) |
| 5 August | George Cole | 90 | Actor and voice actor (Minder, Cleopatra, My Good Friend, Mary Reilly, Dad, Tube Mice) |
| 8 August | Susan Sheridan | 68 | Actress and voice artist (The Black Cauldron, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Noddy's Toyland Adventures, Moomin) |
| 9 August | David Nobbs | 80 | Comedy 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 | 85 | Film 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 | 88 | Actor (On the Buses, Oh, Doctor Beeching!, Last of the Summer Wine) |
| 16 August | Kitty McGeever | 48 | Actress and comedian (Emmerdale, London's Burning) |
| 25 August | Colin Fry | 53 | Television medium |
| 25 August | Geraint Stanley Jones | 79 | Television executive, controller of BBC Wales (1981–1989), chief executive of S4C (1989–1994) |

## September

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

## October

| Date | Name | Age | Broadcast credibility |
| 7 October | William Mitchell | 87 | Writer and editor (Dalesman magazines) |
| 8 October | Hugh Scully | 72 | Presenter (Antiques Roadshow) |
| 8 October | Jim Diamond | 64 | Singer-songwriter (recorded the Boon theme tune, "Hi Ho Silver") |
| 8 October | Richard Davies | 89 | Actor (Z-Cars, Please Sir!, Coronation Street) |
| 9 October | Gordon Honeycombe | 79 | Newscaster (ITN News, TV-am) |
| 9 October | Julia Jones | 82 | Television 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 | 64 | Television journalist (BBC News, Newsnight, ITN News) |
| 17/18 October | Jacky Sutton | 50 | BBC journalist and producer, Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting |
| 22 October | Peter Baldwin | 82 | Actor (Coronation Street) |
| 29 October | Kenneth Gilbert | 84 | Actor (Doctor Who, House of Cards) |

## November

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

## December

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