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

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

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

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

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

June
Date Name Age Broadcast credibility
1 June Charles Kennedy[38] 55 Liberal Democrat leader and guest presenter of Have I Got News for You
6 June Richard Johnson[39] 87 Actor (Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness, Doc Martin)
7 June Christopher Lee[40][41] 93 Actor (Gormenghast, The Man with the Golden Gun)
11 June Ron Moody[42] 91 Actor
25 June Patrick Macnee[43] 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)[44]

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

August
Date Name Age Broadcast credibility
1 August Cilla Black[49][50] 72 Singer and television presenter (Surprise Surprise, Blind Date, The Moment of Truth)
5 August George Cole[51] 90 Actor (Minder, Cleopatra, My Good Friend, Mary Reilly, Dad)
8 August Susan Sheridan[52] 68 Actress and voice artist (The Black Cauldron, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Noddy's Toyland Adventures, Moomin)
9 August David Nobbs[53] 80 Comedy writer and humanist (The Two Ronnies, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, A Bit of a Do, Gentlemen's Relish)
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[54][55] 88 Actor (On the Buses, Oh, Doctor Beeching!, Last of the Summer Wine)
16 August Kitty McGeever[56][57] 48 Actress and comedian (Emmerdale, London's Burning)
25 August Colin Fry[58] 53 Television medium
Geraint Stanley Jones[59] 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[60][61] 76 Actress (Juke Box Jury, The Rag Trade, Marks in His Diary)
19 September Brian Sewell[62] 84 Writer, art critic and media personality
Jackie Collins[63] 77 Actress, writer and romance novelist
22 September Derek Ware[64] Actor and stuntman (Doctor Who)
27 September John Guillermin[65] 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[66] 72 Presenter (Antiques Roadshow)
Jim Diamond[67][68] 64 Singer-songwriter (recorded the Boon theme tune, "Hi Ho Silver")
Richard Davies[69] 89 Actor (Z-Cars, Please Sir!, Coronation Street)
9 October Gordon Honeycombe[70] 79 Newscaster (ITN News, TV-am)
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[71] 64 Television journalist (BBC News, Newsnight, ITN News)
17/18 October Jacky Sutton[72] 50 BBC journalist and producer, Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
22 October Peter Baldwin[73][74] 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[75] 89 Actor (Ernest Bishop in Coronation Street)
3 November Colin Welland[76] 81 Actor and screenwriter (Z-Cars, Blue Remembered Hills)
14 November Warren Mitchell[77][78] 89 Actor (Till Death Us Do Part, Death of a Salesman)
Saeed Jaffrey[79] 86 Actor (The Jewel in the Crown, Coronation Street)
18 November Redvers Kyle[80] 85 Broadcaster, voice over artist, actor and composer
20 November Peter Dimmock[81] 94 Sports journalist and BBC executive (Grandstand, BBC Sports Personality of the Year)
Keith Michell[82] 88 Actor and director (The Six Wives of Henry VIII)
22 November Hazel Adair[83] 95 Writer and producer (Crossroads)
Robin Stewart[84] 69 Actor (Bless This House, Cromwell, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires)
25 November Beth Rogan[85] 84 Actress (Mysterious Island)

December
Date Name Age Broadcast credibility
2 December Anthony Valentine[86] 76 Actor (Colditz, Coronation Street, Escape to Athena)
6 December Nicholas Smith[87] 81 Actor (Are You Being Served?, Grace & Favour, Doctor Who, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
7 December Shirley Stelfox[88] 74 Actor (Emmerdale, Keeping Up Appearances, Coronation Street) Edna Birch
15 December Kathy Secker[89][90] 70 Broadcaster and television presenter (Tyne Tees Television)
19 December Jimmy Hill[91] 87 Footballer, football manager and football pundit (Match of the Day)

See also

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