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On This Day (USA) - 23 July



 Birthdays
Pippa Bennett-Warner was 38 - 6 credits, including Saibra in Time Heist

Pippa Bennett-Warner is a RADA-trained actress, born in Banbury, Oxfordshire and brought up in Northamptonshire.

Her first role occured when she was eleven, playing the young Nalas in the first London production on The Lion King. This was followed by an appearance in Holby City and then as Lenny Henry's daughter in Lenny Henry in Pieces before in 2006 she played Emmie Thibodeaux in Caroline, of Change, a role that earned her a nomination for The Stuart Phillips London Newcomer of the Year (other nominees included Andrew Garfield).

In 2007 she entered RADA, graduating in 2010. That year also saw her in the play Ruined, a Sky Arts play Crocodile, and then into King Lear to play Cordelia, alongside Sir Derek Jacobi. She also appeared on television  in Come Fly With Me and Case Histories. After King Lear she went on to play a role written for her by D.C. Moore in The Swan, followed by a part in Lewis and then back to the theatre for Richard II, and thenThe Witness, which led to a nomination in 2012 for Best Actress in The Evening Standard Theatre Awards. She was also listed as one of the 1000 Most Influential Londoners by the newspaper in the same year.


Cheryl Hall (died 2026 aged 76) would have been 76 - credited as Shirna in Carnival Of Monsters

Cheryl Hall was a British actress, best known for playing the role of Shirley, the girlfriend of Wolfie Smith in the British sitcom Citizen Smith.

She played Shirna in the Third Doctor story Carnival Of Monsters, and had auditioned for the role of Jo Grant in 1970.

She also appeared in Dear Mother, Love Albert playing Rodney Bewes' screen girlfriend. She played an inmate in one episode of Within These Walls (1974). She also had small roles in EastEnders .Film appearances included the Avarice segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

In politics, she was Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Canterbury in the 1997 general election, and served as a member of Kent County Council.


Brian McDermott (died 2003 aged 69) would have been 92 - credited as Sheard in Time-Flight

Brian McDermott played Sheard in the Doctor Who story Time-Flight.

Also worked on White Collar Blue, The Pact, Inspector Gadget 2, Dirty Deeds, All Saints, BackBerner, Zoe, Komodo, Babylon 5, Born Free, Murder Call, Snide and Prejudice, In Pursuit of Honor, Agatha Christie: Poirot, Mary, The 10 Percenters, Time Trax, Official Denial, This Won't Hurt a Bit, KYTV, Police Rescue, Bonjour la Classe, Phoenix, Sweet Talker, The Upper Hand, About Face, The Punisher, Fields of Fire III, A Country Practice, The Clean Machine, For Queen & Country, Tickets for the Titanic, Call Me Mister, Comrades, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Lytton's Diary, The Last Bastion, Minder, On the Run, Bergerac, The Coral Island, Scales of Justice, Juliet Bravo, Crosstalk, With Prejudice, Hoodwink, Priest of Love, The Gentle Touch, The Professionals, Skyways, Ride on Stranger, Les Miserables, Target, The Sweeney, Dixon of Dock Green, Craze, Armchair Theatre, Colditz, Menace, Z Cars, Spyder's Web, Love Story, Public Eye, Grady, The Main Chance, Paul Temple, Division 4, Homicide, Riptide, Big Breadwinner Hog, Department S, Hunter, This Way for Murder, The Troubleshooters, Softly Softly, The Man in Room 17, The Saint, The Villains, Detective, Melissa, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Richard the Lionheart, Harpers West One, Flame in the Streets, Payroll, BBC Sunday-Night Play, The Four Just Men, Boyd Q.C., Deadline Midnight, Probation Officer, No Hiding Place, ITV Play of the Week, Crime Sheet, ITV Television Playhouse, Starr and Company, Tales from Dickens


 Deaths
Michael Dillon (died 2006 aged 80) - credited as Dalek Operator in Dr Who and the Daleks(Aaru)

Also known as Mick Dillon.