15 Doctor Who Actors Who Died In 2020
Let's raise a sonic screwdriver for some of the Doctor Who stars who left us this year.
At 57 years of age, Doctor Who has been going for so long that it's attracted multiple generations of film and TV talent, from actors and directors, to producers and writers.
The kids who were watching Doctor Who in the '60s and '70s eventually grew up and started making the show themselves, as is the case with many NuWho icons like Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, and David Tennant. This gives the programme an incredibly rich history, but on the downside, the older the show gets, the more regularly we start to lose some of the talented people associated with it, especially those who were involved in the making of the classic era.
2020 has been an awful year in so many ways, and contributing to that gloominess is the fact that many Doctor Who actors have died over these last 12 months.
Whether they played a minor supporting character in a forgotten serial or an iconic villain from the NuWho era, they all deserve some recognition for helping to make the Doctor Who stories that have brought millions of fans joy over the last half a century.
15. Edmund Kente
Edmund Kente's first and only appearance in Doctor Who came in the 2008 Christmas special The Next Doctor, which was led by David Tennant's Tenth Time Lord.
Here, Kente played Mr. Scoones, the owner of a London workhouse who became an unwilling participant in a Cybermen plot concocted by the story's cold and calculating villainess, Mercy Hartigan.
Kente passed away on 2 January, aged 72.