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On This Day (USA) - 6 October



City of Death: Part Two premiered on BBC One in 1979 at 6:17pm BST, watched by 14.10 million viewers.

Tooth and Claw premiered on SyFy (East Coast Feed) in 2006 at 8:00pm EDT

The Day of the Clown: Episode One premiered on CBBC in 2008 at 5:15pm BST

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Tommy Campbell was 46 - credited as Sergeant in The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon
Tommy Campbell is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is a dual-citizen of Ireland and Canada and currently resides in London.

He has appeared in Crysis 2, (Video Game - voice) Matt Hatter Chronicles (Animated TV Series), Green Zone, The Philanthropist, The Dark Night, Scarlet (TV Series), Shameless. In 2004 and 2005 he was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for his global stand up work He is a member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.

Stanley Myers (died 1993 aged 63) would have been 94 - credited as Incidental Music for The Reign Of Terror

Stanley Myers was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. He also wrote the guitar piece "Cavatina".

Myers was born in Birmingham, and as a teenager went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham.

Myers wrote incidental music for television, for example a 1964 serial in the television series Doctor Who, the theme to All Gas and Gaiters and the theme for the BBC's Question Time.

He is known for composing music for cult films House of WhipcordFrightmare and House of Mortal Sin for filmmaker Peter Walker.

He is best known for "Cavatina" (1970), an evocative guitar piece that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, and for which Myers won the Ivor Novello Award. A somewhat different version of this work, performed by John Williams, had appeared in The Walking Stick. And yet another version had lyrics added. Cleo Laine and Iris Williams, in separate recordings as He Was Beautiful, helped to make "Cavatina" become even more popular.

During the 1980s, Myers worked frequently with director Stephen Frears. His score for Prick Up Your Ears (1987) won him a "Best Artistic Contribution" award at the Cannes Film Festival. He also scored several low budget features (Time TravelerBlind DateThe WindZero Boys) for director Nico Mastorakis, collaborating with Hans Zimmer. He won another Ivor Novello Award for his soundtrack to The Witches in 1991.

Myers died of cancer aged 63 in Kensington and Chelsea, London.

Biography from the Wikipedia article, licensed under CC-BY-SA  


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Ernie Vincze BSC (died 2024 aged 81) - 33 credits, including Director of Photography for Rose

Ernie Vincze was the Director of Photography on 38 episodes of Doctor Who between 2005 and 2009, responsible for the Camera work and the lighting on each episode.

He was in charge for the entire first series of the revived show in 2005 looking after each episode of the Ninth Doctor's era before completing the Christmas special introducing the Tenth Doctor.   

He shared the load over the next three years, with his final episode, The Waters of Mars, in 2009.

Ernie Vincze was born in Hungary in 1942. He spent most of his working life in Britain with over 80 credits. Some of his best-known work includes Jeeves and Wooster, Holby City, Robin Hood, Macbeth, Screen Two and The South Bank Show. 

He was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers in 1978, and is a fellow of the BKSTS. He served on the BAFTA council for 20 years, and was Head of Cinematography at the NFTS from 2000 - 2002

He won the 2008 Cymru BAFTA for his work on Doctor Who: Voyage Of The Damned


Adrienne Hill (died 1997 aged 60) - 3 credits, including Katarina in The Myth Makers

Plymouth-born Adrienne Hill trained in acting at the Bristol Old Vic, then spent some time with the Old Vic Company in London, followed by eight years' work in repertory theatre. 

She was spotted by Doctor Who production assistant Viktors Ritelis while understudying for Maggie Smith in a play called "Mary, Mary", she was invited to audition for the role of Princess Joanna in "The Crusade." Although she did not win that part, director Douglas Camfield remembered her and cast her as Katarina. 

In the late sixties she had continued success, particularly in radio, and landed a regular role in the BBC's "Waggoner's Walk." She then moved abroad with her husband when his work took him first to Holland and later to the USA. In the late seventies, after her marriage broke up, she returned to England and studied for a degree. During the eighties she launched a new career as a drama teacher, while continuing to do occasional acting work.