RIP 2022

Graham Skidmore (aged 90, died in June 2021, reported in January)
Blind Date's Our Graham, Shooting Stars voiceover

Betty White (99, died New Year's Eve 2021)
Rose from The Golden Girls

George Rossi (60, died January 5th 2022)
Duncan Lennox in The Bill

Nicholas Donnelly (83, January 9th)
Mr MacKenzie in Grange Hill, Sergeant Johnny Wills in Dixon of Dock Green

Gary Waldhorn (74, January 10th)
Councillor David Horton in The Vicar of Dibley, Jacko's boss Lionel Bainbridge in Brush Strokes

Jana Bennett (66, January 11th)
Panorama producer and Horizon editor who became BBC Head of Science, then Director of Television, overseeing the launch of the digital channels, iPlayer, Strictly, The Apprentice, Gavin & Stacey and so forth

Donald Gee (84, January 14th)
PC Walker on Z-Cars, Bob Hoskins' sidekick in On The Move, two Doctor Who stories

Barry Cryer (86, January 25th)

Andy Devine (79, January 27th)
Shadrach in Emmerdale

Jo Kendall (81, January 29th)
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and The Burkiss Way cast member, spoke the first ever line on Emmerdale Farm

Leonard Fenton (84, January 29th)
Dr Legg in EastEnders

Bamber Gascoigne (86, February 8th)
University Challenge

Beryl Vertue (90, February 12th)
Agent to Milligan, Hancock, Sykes, Howerd, Johnny Speight, Galton & Simpson and Terry Nation; sold Steptoe & Son and Till Death Us Do Part to America successfully; produced Men Behaving Badly and Coupling, executive producer of Sherlock

John Finch (96, February 13th)
A Family At War and regular Coronation Street writer

Jack Smethurst (89, February 16th)
Eddie in Love Thy Neighbour

Stewart Bevan (73, February 20th)
Professor Clifford Jones in Doctor Who: The Green Death

Anna Karen (85, February 22nd)
Olive in On The Buses (and The Rag Trade), Aunt Sal in EastEnders

Sally Kellerman (84, February 24th)
Hotlips Houlihan in M*A*S*H

Conrad Janis (94, March 1st)
Mindy's father Frederick in Mork & Mindy

Bob Wellings (87, March 1st)
Nationwide reporter, That's Life, London Plus and Open Air

Roger Graef (85, March 2nd)
Groundbreaking documentarian - The Space Between Words has been called the first fly-on-the wall series - also directed The Secret Policeman's Ball and co-produced the first Comic Relief

John Stahl (68, March 2nd)
Tom Kerr in Take The High Road, later Game Of Thrones

Lynda Baron (82, March 5th)
Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Open All Hours

Jeremy Child (77, March 7th)
Stage and film regular who appeared regularly in Edward & Mrs Simpson and Fairly Secret Army

Ron Pember (87, March 8th)
Regular character actor, most regularly Secret Army and Crown Court

Peter Bowles (85, March 17th)
To The Manor Born, Only When I Laugh, The Irish RM, Rising Damp, Perfect Scoundrels

Denise Coffey (85, March 24th)
Do Not Adjust Your Set and End Of Part One team member

Jennifer Wilson (89, March 29th)
Jennifer Hammond in The Brothers

June Brown (95, April 3rd)
Long time bit-part actor who became EastEnders' Dot Cotton for a total of 31 years

David McKee (87, April 6th)
Mr Benn and King Rollo creator

Eric Chappell (88, April 21st)
Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh, Duty Free, Home To Roost writer

Robin Parkinson (92, May 7th)
Monsieur Leclerc in 'Allo 'Allo!, Button Moon narrator

Dennis Waterman (74, May 8th)

Kay Mellor (71, May 15th)
Band of Gold, Playing The Field, Fat Friends, The Syndicate; also wrote for Coronation Street and Brookside, Children's Ward co-creator

Patricia Brake (79, May 28th)
Ingrid in Porridge

Bob Hall (77, May 28th)
ATV/Central and Sky Sports reporter

Matt Zimmerman (87, June 9th)
Voice of Alan Tracy in Thunderbirds

Harry Gration (71, June 24th)
Look North anchor 1982-1995 and 1999-2020, South Today 1995-1999

Frank Williams (90, June 26th)
The Reverend in Dad's Army, Hi-de-Hi!, You Rang M'Lord?

Brian Jackson (July 2nd, 91)
The Man From Del Monte

Mona Hammond (91, July 4th)
Susu in Desmond's, Blossom in EastEnders

John Gwynne (77, July 9th)
ITV and Sky Sports darts commentator

Michael Barratt (94, July 10th)
Panorama reporter, Nationwide presenter

Chris Stuart (73, July 12th)
BBC Radio Wales breakfast and Radio 2 DJ

Bernard Cribbins (93, July 27th)

Michael Redfern (79, July 29th)
Oxo family dad

Nichelle Nichols (89, July 30th)
Star Trek's Uhura

Roger E. Mosley (83, August 7th)
TC in Magnum PI

Olivia Newton-John (73, August 8th)

Raymond Briggs (88, August 9th)
The Snowman, Fungus The Bogeyman, When The Wind Blows etc

Duggie Brown (82, August 16th)
The Comedians regular

Bruce Montague (83, August 16th)
Leonard in Butterflies

Josephine Tewson (91, August 16th)
Edna in Shelley, Elizabeth in Keeping Up Appearances

Bill Turnbull (66, August 31st)
BBC TV reporter, presenter and newsreader for thirty years

Queen Elizabeth II (96, September 8th)
Annual Christmas Day speechmaker

Mavis Nicholson (91, September 8th)
Interviewer on Thames and Channel 4

Gwyneth Powell (76, September 8th)
Mrs McClusky in Grange Hill

Harry Landis (95, September 11th)
Felix in EastEnders, Mr Morris in Friday Night Dinner

Eddie Butler (65, September 15th)
BBC rugby union commentator

Raymond Allen (82, October 2nd)
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em creator

Angela Lansbury (96, October 11th)

Robbie Coltrane (72, October 14th)

Atarah Ben-Tovim (82, October 20th)
Flautist and children's TV regular, had own series Atarah's Music

Luke Casey (80, October 30th)
Look North and Nationwide, The Dales Diary

Bill Treacher (92, November 5th)
Arthur Fowler in EastEnders

Leslie Phillips (98, November 7th)

Sir David Butler (98, November 8th)
Psephologist and election night regular

Tom Owen (73, November 8th)
Tom in Last of the Summer Wine, Freewheelers

David English (76, November 12th)
You And Me presenter, Bunbury Tails writer

Sue Baker (75, November 14th)
Top Gear presenter 1980-1991

Tim Beddows (59, November 18th)
Network Distributing founder

John Hanmer (82, November 27th)
BBC horse racing commentator

Kirstie Alley (71, December 5th)
Rebecca in Cheers

Ruth Madoc (79, December 9th)
Hi-De-Hi!

Shirley Coward (88, reported December 9th)
Vision mixer who created the Doctor Who regeneration effect

Victor Lewis-Smith (65, December 10th)
Satirist, writer, producer, maker of Inside Victor Lewis-Smith, TV Offal, Ads Infinitum

Chris Boucher (79, December 11th)
Writer and script editor on Doctor Who (created Leela), Blake's 7, Shoestring, Bergerac, Juliet Bravo and The Bill

Michael Chapman (94, December 15th)
Writer and producer on Public Eye, Van Der Valk, Enemy At The Door and more than a thousand episodes of The Bill

Stephen Greif (78, December 23rd)
Travis in Blake's 7, Harry Fenning in Citizen Smith

John Bird (86, December 24th)
Satirist from TW3 to Bremner Bird & Fortune, voice of the Private Eye Idi Amin, acted in A Very Peculiar Practice, Blue Remembered Hills, Yes Prime Minister, the Marmalade Atkins series