"footage. Tom Baker did reappear, but as ""the Curator"", an ambiguously different character who he was not credited for playing. A voice actor, John Guilor, recorded a line of audio impersonating the First Doctor, for which he was credited as ""Voice Over Artist"". In other multi-Doctor stories, the multiple actors are all credited as ""The Doctor"", the exception being ""The Three Doctors"" (1972–73), which credited William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee as ""Doctor Who"" as the 1972 serial preceded the practice of crediting the character as ""The Doctor"". In ""Human Nature"" (2007), the plot involves the Tenth Doctor altering"
"First Doctor The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role once, in the tenth anniversary story ""The Three Doctors"" (1973), although due to his failing health the story was written so he would not have to appear very extensively. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of"
"Roger Delgado Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (1 March 1918 – 18 June 1973) was a British actor, best known as the first actor to play the Master in ""Doctor Who"". Delgado was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London; he often remarked to ""Doctor Who"" co-star and close friend Jon Pertwee that this made him a true Cockney, as he was born within the sound of the Bow bells, even though his mother was Belgian and his father was Spanish. He did not live in the East End but was brought up in"
"to his first incarnation's initial lack of altruism prior to meeting the Daleks in ""Into the Dalek"". A portrait of the First Doctor is hanging in a UNIT safe house in ""The Zygon Invasion"". First Doctor The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role once, in the tenth anniversary story ""The Three Doctors"" (1973), although due to his failing health the story was written so he would not have to appear"
"51 Church Street, Isleworth, next door to Hugh Blaker, the Hartnells lived on Thames Ditton Island. Then in the 1960s they moved to a cottage in Mayfield, Sussex. He lived in later life at Sheephurst Lane in Marden, Kent. Hartnell acted in numerous British films, as well as having many stage and television appearances, though he is best known for his role in ""Doctor Who"". William Hartnell William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. Hartnell played the first incarnation of the Doctor in ""Doctor Who"", from 1963 to 1966. He was also well"
"audition was held at Moffat's home. Capaldi prepared for the audition by downloading old ""Doctor Who"" scripts from the Internet and practising in front of a mirror. He discovered he had been given the part during filming for Adrian Hodges' ""The Musketeers"" in Prague; after missing a call from his agent, Capaldi rang back to be greeted with ""Hello, Doctor!"" At 55 years old when originally cast, Capaldi was only a few months younger than William Hartnell (the First Doctor) was, when he was cast in the role, and is the oldest actor since Hartnell to star as the Doctor"
"The Doctor (Doctor Who) The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, ""the Doctor"" is the alias assumed by a centuries-old alien—a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey—who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of ""regeneration"", a biological function of the Time Lord race that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance"
"Peter Capaldi. Eccleston and Capaldi would go on to play the Ninth and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, respectively, in the revived series of ""Doctor Who"" which began in 2005. Eccleston turned down the offer to audition for the TV Movie because at the time he felt he was not yet an established enough actor and did not want to be associated with a ""brand name"" so early in his career. Capaldi declined because he felt it was unlikely that he would be given the part. Of those actors who originally auditioned for the role of the Doctor, a number"
"popularity led ""The Daily Telegraph"" to dub him ""Britain's favourite alien"". UGO Networks listed the Doctor as one of their best heroes of all time. The Doctor (Doctor Who) The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, ""the Doctor"" is the alias assumed by a centuries-old alien—a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey—who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the"
"Dr. Who (Dalek films) Dr. Who is a character based on the Doctor, the protagonist featuring in the long-running BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". The character, portrayed by the actor Peter Cushing, appeared in two films produced by AARU Productions; ""Dr. Who and the Daleks"" (1965) and ""Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D."" (1966). Plans for a third film were abandoned following the poor box office reception of the second film. Cushing made no mention of the films in his autobiography, although he kept a collection of newspaper clippings about them in a scrapbook. Whereas the contemporary television incarnation"
"William Hartnell William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. Hartnell played the first incarnation of the Doctor in ""Doctor Who"", from 1963 to 1966. He was also well known for his role as Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character of the first ""Carry On"" film, ""Carry On Sergeant"" in 1958, and Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the sitcom ""The Army Game"" from 1957 until 1958, and again in 1960. Hartnell was born in St Pancras, London, England, the only child of Lucy Hartnell, an unmarried mother. He was brought up partly by a"
"number of roles in theatre with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and in the opening season of the Globe Theatre. In the 1980s, while a member of the Actors' Touring Company, he used the stage name Russell Enoch; on leaving the company he reverted to the name William Russell. William Russell (actor) William Russell Enoch (born 19 November 1924), better known as William Russell, is an English actor. He played the role of companion Ian Chesterton in ""Doctor Who"", from the show's first episode in 1963 until 1965. In 1963 he was cast in ""Doctor Who"" as the"
"Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday was a stage play based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". The play ran at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England for four weeks, beginning on 16 December 1974. Originally, the part of the Doctor was to be played by Jon Pertwee, but the role went instead to character actor Trevor Martin. Martin had previously appeared in ""Doctor Who"" as a Time Lord in the 1969 serial, ""The War Games"". In the play, it"
"Patrick Troughton Patrick George Troughton (, 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. Classically trained, he played the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which he played from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1973, 1983 and 1985. He appeared in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films. Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England, to Alec George Troughton (1887–1953), a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord (1886–1979), who married in 1914 in Edmonton. Patrick had an elder brother, Alec Robert (1915–1994),"
"William Russell (actor) William Russell Enoch (born 19 November 1924), better known as William Russell, is an English actor. He played the role of companion Ian Chesterton in ""Doctor Who"", from the show's first episode in 1963 until 1965. In 1963 he was cast in ""Doctor Who"" as the Doctor's first male companion, science teacher Ian Chesterton, appearing in most episodes of the first two seasons of the programme. Russell was one of the four original cast members of ""Doctor Who"", starring opposite William Hartnell as the Doctor, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman and"
"can take over, and that's Patrick Troughton"". Lloyd chose Troughton because of his extensive and versatile experience as a character actor. After he was cast, Troughton considered various ways to approach the role, to differentiate his portrayal from Hartnell's amiable-yet-tetchy patriarch. Troughton's early thoughts about how he might play the Doctor included a ""tough sea captain"", and a piratical figure in blackface and turban. ""Doctor Who"" creator Sydney Newman suggested that the Doctor could be a ""cosmic hobo"" in the mould of Charlie Chaplin, and this was the interpretation eventually chosen. Troughton was the first Doctor to have his face"
"The Three Doctors (Doctor Who) The Three Doctors is the first serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 December 1972 to 20 January 1973. In the serial, the solar engineer Omega (Stephen Thorne), the creator of the experiments that allowed the Time Lords to travel in time, seeks revenge on the Time Lords after he was left for dead in a universe made of antimatter. The Time Lords recruit the time travellers the First Doctor (William Hartnell), the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), and"
"of the series and a film should be made by the BBC team and star the current TV Doctor. ""Doctor Who"" has appeared on stage numerous times. In the early 1970s, Trevor Martin played the role in ""Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday"". In the late 1980s, Jon Pertwee and Colin Baker both played the Doctor at different times during the run of a play titled ""Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure"". For two performances, while Pertwee was ill, David Banks (better known for playing Cybermen) played the Doctor. Other original plays have been staged"
"Doctor's nature, somewhere between the twelfth and final incarnation. On rare occasions, other actors have stood in for the lead. In ""The Five Doctors"", Richard Hurndall played the First Doctor due to William Hartnell's death in 1975; 34 years later David Bradley similarly replaced Hartnell in ""Twice Upon a Time"". In ""Time and the Rani"", Sylvester McCoy briefly played the Sixth Doctor during the regeneration sequence, carrying on as the Seventh. For more information, see the list of actors who have played the Doctor. In other media, the Doctor has been played by various other actors, including Peter Cushing in"
"of his most memorable screen performances. French was also considered for the role of the First Doctor in the science fiction series ""Doctor Who"", a part that eventually went to William Hartnell. He finally appeared in the programme in its 1988 serial, ""Silver Nemesis"", playing the Mathematician. Leslie French Leslie Richard French (23 April 1904 – 21 January 1999) was a British actor of stage and screen. French was primarily a theatre actor, as well as a director, singer and dancer, with a varied career that included the classics, musical revue, pantomime and ballet. He became most associated with the"
"Sylvester McCoy Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor, best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996. He was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father, killed in action in World War II a couple of months before his son was born. His maternal grandmother was from Portadown, Northern Ireland. He was raised"
"writing the First Doctor out – as he was an alien being, they decided that he would have the power to change his body when it became worn out or seriously injured, a process that was called ""renewal"" but would later become known within the mythology of the series as ""regeneration"". Lloyd and Davis cast actor Patrick Troughton, who first appeared in November 1966 after the changeover from Hartnell had been seen at the end of the story ""The Tenth Planet"". That serial also introduced the popular Cybermen, villains who would return to face the Doctor on several subsequent occasions."
"were in I cannot tell you how much I hated them. But I realise how shallow I am because I now hate the Labour Party as much."" Tom Baker Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series ""Doctor Who"" from 1974 to 1981, a longer tenure than any other actor, and for the narration of the comedy series ""Little Britain"". Baker's voice, which has been described as ""sonorous"", was voted the fourth-most recognisable in the UK. At the"
"First Doctor comic stories The First Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the first incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi BBC One series, Doctor Who. These ranges are notable for beginning a big history of Doctor Who in comics. As with the television series, the William Hartnell version of the Doctor was the original comic strip Doctor. However, the actor's portrayal of the character was often lost in TV Comic, the dominant publication to feature First Doctor stories. At a superficial level, the character wasn't called ""the Doctor"", but ""Dr. Who"". Yet"
"of 87, while on holiday in Bulgaria. Trevor Martin Trevor Gordon Martin (17 November 1929 – 5 October 2017) was a British stage and film actor known for playing popular British characters. Martin's parents were from Dundee; he was raised in Enfield, and after military service trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 1953, as a result of which he began his career with the BBC Radio Drama Company. Martin was perhaps best known for playing the Doctor on stage at the Adelphi Theatre, London in ""Doctor Who and"
"film, but did not go because he was unsure if he would get the part and did not wish to be part of a large group of actors turned down for the role. Thomas Goodall, from North Baddesley in Hampshire, had been a devoted fan of ""Doctor Who"" since the age of two and wrote a letter to Peter Capaldi saying he hoped the actor found success in his new role portraying the Doctor. The Goodall family were all fans of ""Doctor Who"", describing themselves as Whovians. Thomas decorated his home with objects related to the television series. Capaldi wrote"
"led to him being cast as the First Doctor himself in the 2017 ""Doctor Who"" episodes ""The Doctor Falls"" and ""Twice Upon a Time"" and in a series of audio adventures for Big Finish Productions. In 1966, William Hartnell (David Bradley) is in his dressing room at the BBC. He insults a stagehand who calls him to the set, where the delay caused by his absence is noticed. Hartnell enters in costume, ready to film his last moments as the First Doctor and stands in front of the TARDIS console. Three years earlier, BBC executive Sydney Newman (Brian Cox) is"
"For others, he merely provides descriptive narration. Fourth Doctor The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He was portrayed by Tom Baker for seven consecutive seasons, which remains the longest tenure of any actor to portray the lead, counting both the classic and modern series. He was considered to be the most recognisable and iconic incarnation of the Doctor both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old Time Lord alien from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and"
"Anthony Ainley Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932 – 3 May 2004) was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the Master in ""Doctor Who"". He was the fourth actor to play the role of the Master, and the first actor to portray the Master as a recurring role since the death of Roger Delgado in 1973. Ainley was born in Stanmore, Middlesex the son of the actor Henry Ainley on 20 August 1932 although his birth was not registered until January 1938 at around the time that he was admitted"
"own, he came to relish particularly the attention and affection that playing the character brought him from children. His first episode of ""Doctor Who"" aired on 23 November 1963. ""Doctor Who"" earned Hartnell a regular salary of £315 per episode by 1966 (in the era of 48 weeks per year production on the series), . By comparison, in 1966 his co-stars Anneke Wills and Michael Craze were earning £68 and £52 per episode at the same time, respectively. Throughout his tenure as the Doctor, William Hartnell wore a wig when playing the part, as the character had long hair. According"
"of his predecessors ever really attempted"". Twelfth Doctor The Twelfth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". He is portrayed by Scottish actor Peter Capaldi. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a time travelling, humanoid alien from a race known as the Time Lords. At the end of life, the Doctor can regenerate his body, and in doing so gain a new physical appearance, and with it a distinct new personality; this plot mechanism has allowed the Doctor to be portrayed by a series of actors over the"
"Fourth Doctor The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". He was portrayed by Tom Baker for seven consecutive seasons, which remains the longest tenure of any actor to portray the lead, counting both the classic and modern series. He was considered to be the most recognisable and iconic incarnation of the Doctor both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old Time Lord alien from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in his TARDIS, frequently with companions."
"the universe. Conceived as ""Professor Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes"", the character first appeared in 1971. As with the Doctor, the role has been portrayed by several actors, since the Master is a Time Lord as well and able to regenerate; the first of these actors was Roger Delgado, who continued in the role until his death in 1973. The Master was briefly played by Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers until Anthony Ainley took over and continued to play the character until Doctor Who's hiatus in 1989. The Master returned in the 1996 television movie of ""Doctor Who"", and"