Husband Of Doctor Who's Assistant Mary Tamm Dies Just Hours After Her Funeral

Husband Of Dr Who's Assistant Dies Just Hours After Her Funeral
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Dr Who assistant Mary Tamm died on 26 July at the age of 62.

And in a double tragedy for their family and friends, it has been reported that Mary Tamm's husband died suddenly, on the day of her funeral, 12 days later.

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Mary Tamm as Romana with Doctor Who, played by Tom Baker

The Daily Mail reports that Marcus Ringrose died of a heart attack at his South London home, several hours after delivering the eulogy to his late wife at church.

According to the Daily Mail, Mr Ringrose had been at his computer answering letters of condolence when he suffered his fatal attack.

Tamm had been suffering from cancer, played the Doctor's companion Romana, alongside Tom Baker. Her agent Barry Langford said she had a "zest for life". Read more here...

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British actress Carole Ann Ford (centre, right) makes a horn sign at a Dalek from the BBC television science fiction series 'Doctor Who', at the Daily Mail Schoolboys' and Girls' Exhibition at Olympia, London, 28th December 1964. In the series, Ford plays Susan Foreman, the companion of the first Doctor, played by William Hartnell. (Photo credit: Victor Drees/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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Dr Who encounters the ancient Aztecs in an episode of the famous TV series in 1964. From left to right, the actors are John Ringham, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, William Hartnell (1908 - 1975) and Keith Pyott. (Photo credit: Moore/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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British actors Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen pose in 1974, who star in the new BBCTV series 'Dr Who'. (Photo by Victor Blackman/Express/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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Dr Who (actor Peter Davison) and female companions of the Doctor's past and present pose in 1983. (l-r) Louise Jameson, Carole Ann Ford, Caroline John, Sarah Sutton, Elisabeth Sladen and Janet Fielding. (Photo credit: PA) (credit:PA)
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Paul McGann (as The Doctor) and Daphne Ashbrook (as Dr. Grace Holloway) in Doctor Who, shown in 1996. (Photo credit: WENN.com) (credit:WENN)
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Tom Baker, as Doctor Who, and Mary Tamm as his companion, Romana, on the set of the BBC television science fiction series 'Doctor Who', at BBC TV Centre, London, 25th April 1978. (Photo by Fred Mott/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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English actors Jon Pertwee (1919 - 1996) and Elisabeth Sladen (1946 - 2011) outside BBC TV Centre, London, 26th June 1973. Pertwee and Sladen play Doctor Who and his companion Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series 'Doctor Who'. (Photo by William H. Alden/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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