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Fourteen actors have portrayed The Doctor in a leading role in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series' protagonist , the Doctor is an extraterrestrial Time Lord . The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the narrative through the plot device of regeneration , which allows Time Lords a change of ...
[62] [63] Capaldi made a cameo appearance in "The Day of the Doctor" and a guest appearance at the end of "The Time of the Doctor" after being cast in the role. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] He had also previously appeared in the Doctor Who episode " The Fires of Pompeii " and in the third series of spin-off series Torchwood , roles which were later connected ...
Actors who auditioned for the role in the 1996 film included Michael Crawford, Rowan Atkinson (who played a spoof version of the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death), Liam Cunningham [27] (who appeared in the 2013 Doctor Who episode "Cold War"), Mark McGann (whose brother Paul McGann eventually got the role), [28] Trevor Eve, Michael Palin ...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, JUNE 23: Richard Franklin at the BBC studios recording a Doctor Who audiobook, London, June 23, 2009. (Photo by Kevin Nixon/SFX magazine via Getty Images)
Doctor Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name "the Doctor".The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex.
The title screen of the unaired pilot episode of Doctor Who. After actors Hugh David (later a director on the series) and Geoffrey Bayldon [16] had both turned down approaches to star in the series, Verity Lambert and the first serial's director Waris Hussein managed to persuade 55-year-old character actor William Hartnell to take the part of the Doctor.
Colin Charles Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor. He played Paul Merroney in the BBC television drama series The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986.
In 2017, Whittaker became the thirteenth lead actor to play the Doctor in Doctor Who; She formally assumed the role from Peter Capaldi in "Twice Upon a Time". Whittaker appeared in her first full series in the eleventh series, which premiered in 2018. She continued in the role in the twelfth series in 2020 and thirteenth series in 2021.