Gary Downie
Gary Downie | |
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Born | Roderick Gary Downie Pinkus 17 July 1940 |
Died | 19 January 2006 | (aged 65)
Occupation | Production manager |
Partner(s) | John Nathan-Turner (long-term partner) (1972–2002, Nathan-Turner's death) |
Gary Downie (17 July 1940 – 19 January 2006) was a production manager on many 1980s episodes of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, and partner of its producer John Nathan-Turner.[1] His own analysis of the role of a production manager can be found on the BBC DVD release of The Two Doctors.[2]
Career[]
Downie had previously been a dancer and alongside Adrian Le Peltier he occasionally accompanied Pan's People between 1968 and 1970, in Happening for Lulu,[3] the Bobbie Gentry Show and Top of the Pops.[4]
Downie also worked on I, Claudius,[5] All Creatures Great and Small and Star Cops.[6]
Personal life[]
Downie died on 19 January 2006, having survived Nathan-Turner who died in 2002. Gary Downie shared a home with Nathan-Turner in Saltdean, Brighton. Downie was the author of the mid 1980s book The Doctor Who Cookbook.[7] Many Doctor Who celebrities donated recipes to the volume including Ian Marter and Lalla Ward.
Controversy[]
In Richard Marson's book The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner (2013)[8] Marson alleges Downie sexually assaulted him, and details other accusations of inappropriate behaviour by Nathan-Turner and Downie, during the former's period as the series' producer.[8]
Bibliography[]
- 1985 – The Doctor Who Cookbook – ISBN 0-491-03214-5
References[]
- ^ "Author of The Colony of Lies". BBC. 1 January 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/content/5837/doctor-who-the-two-doctors/[bare URL]
- ^ "Pans People – Funky Street – [Happening For] Lulu TX: 01/02/1969". Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ "The girls one step ahead". The Mirror. 23 June 1969. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Gary Downie".
- ^ "Star Cops (TV Series 1987) - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ Downie, Gary (1985), The Doctor Who cookbook, W.H. Allen, ISBN 978-0-491-03214-8
- ^ a b Matthew Sweet "JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review", The Guardian, 22 March 2013
External links[]
- Gary Downie at IMDb
- 1940 births
- 2006 deaths
- British television people
- Deaths from cancer in England
- LGBT people from England
- Unit production managers
- English television biography stubs
- Doctor Who stubs