15 Doctor Who Actors Who Died In 2020

8. Louis Mahoney

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Like James Garbutt, Louis Mahoney was fortunate enough to appear in one of those Doctor Who stories that's gone down as an all-time classic.

The actor played the older version of detective Billy Shipton in the 2007 episode Blink, the Tenth Doctor adventure that first introduced the iconic Weeping Angels. Here, Mahoney had a single scene with Carey Mulligan's likeable protagonist Sally Sparrow, in which Billy dies of old age while lying in his hospital bed.

This was easily Mahoney's most notable Doctor Who credit, but it wasn't his only Doctor Who credit. He first popped up in the show during the 1973 serial Frontier In Space, and then again during 1975's Planet Of Evil.

Mahoney passed away on 28 June, aged 81.

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