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This is a list of actors who have played the Doctor role in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Since the series began in 1963, many actors have played the title character of the Doctor on television and in various BBC-licensed spin-offs on television, stage, radio, film, audio plays and webcasts. The character's ability to periodically regenerate his appearance and personality has facilitated the ability of new actors to take over the role – in both official and unofficial productions – while in most cases maintaining continuity with the television series. However, as noted below, some actors have played versions of the Doctor (including a fully human variant whose name – unlike that of the canonical version – really is Doctor Who) that depart from the canon.
This list does not include stand-ins, stunt men, most actors featured in sketch comedies and send-ups or Doctors who have appeared in fan films, amateur stage shows or audios, but may include actors who are confirmed to portray the Doctor in the future.
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Actors who have played the Doctor on television
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| William Hartnell (First Doctor) |
23 November 1963 – 29 October 1966 | An Unearthly Child Episode 1 |
The Tenth Planet Episode 4 |
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| Patrick Troughton (Second Doctor) |
29 October 1966 – 21 June 1969 | The Tenth Planet Episode 4 |
The War Games Episode 10 |
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| Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor) |
3 January 1970 – 8 June 1974 | Spearhead from Space Episode 1 |
Planet of the Spiders Part Six |
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| Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor) |
8 June 1974 – 21 March 1981 | Planet of the Spiders Part Six |
Logopolis Part Four |
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| Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor) |
21 March 1981 – 16 March 1984 | Logopolis Part Four |
The Caves of Androzani Part Four |
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| Colin Baker (Sixth Doctor) |
16 March 1984 – 6 December 1986 | The Caves of Androzani Part Four |
The Ultimate Foe Part Two |
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| Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor) |
7 September 1987 – 6 December 1989 27 May 1996 |
Time and the Rani Part One |
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| Paul McGann (Eighth Doctor) |
27 May 1996 | Doctor Who | Doctor Who | |||
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| Christopher Eccleston (Ninth Doctor) |
26 March – 18 June 2005 | Rose | The Parting of the Ways | |||
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| David Tennant (Tenth Doctor) |
18 June 2005 – 1 January 2010 | The Parting of the Ways | The End of Time Part Two |
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| Matt Smith (Eleventh Doctor) |
1 January 2010 – | The End of Time Part Two |
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Other actors who played the Doctor
| Actor | Medium | Title | Dates | Role |
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| Peter Cushing | Film | Dr. Who and the Daleks | 25 June 1965 | Dr. Who |
| Film | Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD | 22 July 1966 | Dr. Who | |
| Trevor Martin | Stage | Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday | 16 December 1974 to January 1975 | The Fourth Doctor (shown on stage to be regenerated from the Jon Pertwee Third Doctor) [3] |
| Audio | 23 October 2008 | The Fourth Doctor | ||
| Adrian Gibbs | Television | Logopolis | 28 February 1981 to 21 March 1981 | The Watcher (Nyssa comments, "He was the Doctor all the time.") |
| Richard Hurndall | Television | The Five Doctors | 23 November 1983 | The First Doctor |
| Michael Jayston | Television | The Trial of a Time Lord | 6 September to 6 December 1986 | The Valeyard (said to be an evil version of the Doctor, existing somewhere between his twelfth and final incarnations) |
| Audio | He Jests at Scars... | September 2003 | The Valeyard | |
| Geoffrey Hughes | Television | The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe | 29 November 1986 to 6 December 1986 | Mr Popplewick (a disguise used by The Valeyard) |
| Sylvester McCoy | Television | Time and the Rani | 7 September 1987 | The Sixth Doctor (briefly, under a curly blonde wig before regenerating) |
| David Banks | Stage | Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure | 29 April 1989 | The Doctor (understudy for Jon Pertwee; performed as the Doctor for two performances when Pertwee fell ill) |
| Nick Scovell | Stage | The Planet of Storms | 1996 | The Doctor[4] |
| Stage | The Web of Fear | June 2000 | The Second Doctor | |
| Stage | Fury From the Deep | 27 to 30 March 2002 | The Second Doctor | |
| Stage | Evil of the Daleks | 25 to 28 October 2006 | The Second Doctor | |
| Stage | The Dalek Masterplan | 24 to 27 October 2007 | The First Doctor | |
| Rowan Atkinson | Television | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death | 12 March 1999 | The Ninth Doctor (spoof version... modelled on the style of the then-current Paul McGann's Doctor) |
| Richard E. Grant | Television | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death | 12 March 1999 | The Tenth Doctor (spoof version) |
| Webcast | Scream of the Shalka | 13 November to 18 December 2003 | The alternate Ninth Doctor[5] | |
| Jim Broadbent | Television | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death | 12 March 1999 | The Eleventh Doctor (spoof version)[6] |
| Hugh Grant | Television | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death | 12 March 1999 | The Twelfth Doctor (spoof version) |
| Joanna Lumley | Television | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death | 12 March 1999 | The Thirteenth Doctor (spoof version)[7] |
| Mark Gatiss | Television | The Web of Caves | 13 November 1999 | The Doctor (spoof version) |
| Nicholas Briggs | Audio | Minuet in Hell | April 2001 | Gideon Crane - While making an emergency materialisation in an alleyway in Malebolgia, the Eighth Doctor's mind is merged with that of Gideon Crane, a British journalist from the London Torch. The Doctor and Gideon briefly swap identities. [8] |
| Audio | Exile | September 2003 | The previous incarnation of Arabella Weir's Doctor (possibly second) | |
| Audio | Seven Keys to Doomsday | 23 October 2008 | The Third Doctor | |
| Geoffrey Bayldon | Audio | Auld Mortality | May 2003 | Alternative Doctor (possibly first) |
| Audio | A Storm of Angels | January 2005 | Alternative Doctor (possibly first) | |
| David Warner | Audio | Sympathy for the Devil | June 2003 | Alternative Doctor (possibly third) |
| Audio | Masters of War | December 2008 | Alternative Doctor (possibly third) | |
| David Collings | Audio | Full Fathom Five | August 2003 | Alternative Doctor |
| Ian Brooker | Audio | Full Fathom Five | August 2003 | Alternative Doctor (uncredited) |
| Derek Jacobi | Audio | Deadline | September 2003 | A possibly delusional writer who believes he is the Doctor[9] |
| Arabella Weir | Audio | Exile | September 2003 | Alternative Doctor (possibly third) |
| Jon Culshaw | Audio | The Kingmaker | April 2006 | The Fourth Doctor[10] |
| David Tennant | Television | Journey's End | 5 July 2008 | A part-human, part-Time Lord version of the Tenth Doctor. |
Notes
- ^ Baker declined to appear in this reunion special, so unbroadcast footage from a never-completed serial, Shada, was incorporated into the storyline
- ^ Howe's Transcendental Toybox: The Unauthorised Guide to "Doctor Who" Collectibles by David J. Howe, Telos Publishing, 2003
- ^ At the beginning of the play Martin acted as Pertwee with his face covered and then regenerated. Thus he is the first actor to officially play two Doctors.
- ^ Scovell also played the Doctor in the Bedlam Theatre fan video production, The Millennium Trap in 1997.
- ^ Grant is the third actor to officially play two Doctors.
- ^ Broadbent previously played the Doctor in a Victoria Wood As Seen On TV sketch.
- ^ Lumley is the first woman to play the Doctor on screen in an officially licensed (if not canonical) production
- ^ Briggs had previously played the Doctor in a series of fan-made audio stories for Audio Visuals, including the original version of Minuet In Hell. He appeared in all but the pilot, in which the Doctor was voiced by Stephen Payne. Brigg's Audio Visuals Doctor was the inspiration for a future incarnation of the Doctor that appeared with the Seventh Doctor and Ace, in the Doctor Who Magazine comic adventure “Party Animals” in issue 173. Brigg’s future Doctor made a reappearance in the fourth part of the DWM comic “The Final Chapter” (issue 265), when the Eighth Doctor regenerates into him. This “Ninth Doctor” was revealed to be Shayde acting undercover for the Eighth Doctor in the next story “Wormwood” (DWM issues 266-271).
- ^ Jacobi is the only actor to have played canon parts of both The Doctor and The Master - the latter under the guise of Professor Yana for the most part, in the Series 3 episode Utopia’’.
- ^ Culshaw also impersonated the Fourth Doctor, and currently does Tenth Doctor impressions, in the radio and television series Dead Ringers.
See also
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