Christopher Barry

Barry was the son of Sir Gerald Barry, editor of the News Chronicle and director general of the Festival of Britain in 1951, and his first wife Gladys, He attended Blundell's School in Devon and the University of Cambridge, before service in the Royal Air Force. ==Career==

Barry became a trainee at Ealing Studios and worked on the film The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) as an assistant director to Basil Dearden. He joined the BBC as a production assistant in 1955. Among Barry's other television credits were episodes of Compact (1962), Ann Veronica (1964), Paul Temple (1970–71), Z-Cars (1971–78), Poldark (1975), The Onedin Line (1977), All Creatures Great and Small (1978–80), Juliet Bravo (1980) and Dramarama (1989). His other science fiction credits were for Out of the Unknown (1969), Moonbase 3 (1973) and The Tripods (1984). ==Personal life==

Barry lived in Oxfordshire in his retirement. He died following an escalator fall in a shopping centre in Banbury on 7 February 2014. An inquest into his death was held on 5 June 2014. ==Doctor Who credits==

• The Daleks – episodes 1, 2, 4 and 5 (1963–64) • The Rescue (1965) • The Romans (1965) • The Savages (1966) • The Power of the Daleks (1966) • The Dæmons (1971) • The Mutants (1972) • Robot (1974) • The Brain of Morbius (1976) • The Creature from the Pit (1979) • Downtime (1995) ==References==