12 Doctor Who Actors Who Died In 2023

Murray Melvin played the morally ambiguous Bilis Manger in the Torchwood episodes Captain Jack Harkness and End Of Days, a role to which he would return in the Big Finish audio dramas. Morally ambiguous may, however, be a kind description, as he worked to free the god Abaddon from the temporal rift. We all do silly things for the ones we care about.

Melvin was a lifelong actor, having joined a drama club that his parents had co-founded in his youth. His well-managed style was, in his opinion, part of his trick for getting through difficult situations. He would appear in several films of Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick, though it was with the former that he cultivated a long-term friendship.

His theatre credits are enormous, with work both on stage and backstage as well. In December 2022, he suffered a fall, which would ultimately contribute to his death. He died in April 2023 at age 90.