Gary Downie

Gary Downie
Born
Roderick Gary Downie Pinkus

(1940-07-17)17 July 1940
South Africa
Died19 January 2006(2006-01-19) (aged 65)
Brighton, East Sussex, England
OccupationProduction manager
PartnerJohn Nathan-Turner (1972–2002; his death)

Roderick Gary Downie Pinkus (17 July 1940 – 19 January 2006) was a South African-born English 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

  1. ^ "Author of The Colony of Lies". BBC. 1 January 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  2. ^ "Doctor Who: The Two Doctors Review". Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "The girls one step ahead". The Mirror. 23 June 1969. Retrieved 2 June 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ "Gary Downie". Archived from the original on 22 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Star Cops (TV Series 1987) - IMDb". IMDb.
  7. ^ Downie, Gary (1985), The Doctor Who cookbook, W.H. Allen, ISBN 978-0-491-03214-8
  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


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