Thursday, October 18, 2012

Actors Who Have Played The Doctor (Doctor Who): Where are They Now?

LAST UPDATED September 8, 2016. Info derived from imdb. Only roles 2014 and later still being tracked.  Complete to Peter Capaldi. Don't scroll down if you don't want to know about a 2013 spoiler. All official doctors listed; only select alternate Doctors noted

Official Doctors
1.     William Hartnell: died in 1975.
a.      Edmund Warwick (filled in for Hartnell in The Dalek Invasion of Earth episode 4):  died in 1989.
b.     Richard Hurndall (played the First Doctor in The Five Doctors (1983) due to Hartnell’s death):  died in 1984.
2.     Patrick Troughton: died in 1987.
3.     Jon Pertwee: died in 1996.
4.     Tom Baker: in Star Wars Rebels (1 episode 2016), Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet (2016 video game).
5.     Peter Davison: in Gypsy: Live from the Savoy Theatre (2015), Toast of London (3 episodes 2014-2015), Law & Order: UK (8 episodes 2014), Death in Paradise (1 episode 2014) Fish Without Bicycles (2017) in pre-production; as Self: Doctor Who: The Fan Show (2 episodes 2016), Breakfast (1 episode 2014), The Crime Thriller Club (1 episode 2014), Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion (2014).
6.     Colin Baker: in Last Man on Earth (2016), All Your Base: Last of Last (2016), A Christmas Carol (2015), Star Trek Continues (1 episode 2015), A Dozen Summers (2015), Shadows of a Stranger (2014), Finding Richard (2014); Time and Again (2016) in pre-production; The Mild Bunch (2015) announced; as Self: From the Mouths of Babes (unknown episodes 2016), BBC Comedy Feeds (1 episode 2014).
7.     Sylvester McCoy: in Crims (1 episode 2015), The Last Conjuror (2015), The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (2014), The Seventeenth Kind (2014); When the Devil Rides Out (nd), Quest: A Tall Tale (2013), Slumber (2016) in post-production; Journey Bound (2015), The Circuit (2017) in pre-production; The Inspector Chronicles: Untitled Motion Picture About a Space Traveler Who Can also Travel Through Time (nd) announced; as Self: Doctor Who: The Fan Show (1 episode 2016), The Real Marigold Hotel (1 episode 2016).
8.     Paul McGann: in Brakes (2016), The Musketeers (1 episode 2016), The Minister of Chance (2014), The Bletchley Circle (1 episode 2014); Absence (2015), B&B (2016) completed; The Pit and the Pendulum: A Study in Torture (nd) in post-production; as Director: Moving On (1 episode 2016); as Self: Cleopatra's Lost Tomb (2015), The Other Prince William (2015), Churchill: When Britain Said No (2015), Shark (unknown episodes 2015), Wildest Islands (3 episodes 2015), Alien Encounters: Superior Fan Power Since 1979 (2014), That Hashtag Show (1 episode 2014), The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story (2014).
9.     Christopher Eccleston: in The Leftovers (28 episodes 2014-2017), 1599: A True Story of the Elizabethan Court (2016), The A Word (6 episodes 2016), The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (2 episodes 2015-2016), Legend (2015), Safe House (4 episodes 2015), Fortitude (3 episodes 2015); as Self: Ten Pieces II (2015), Dispatches (1 episode 2015), The Paul O'Grady Show (1 episode 2015), A Brothers' Journey: Thor & Loki (2014).
10.  David Tennant: in Broadchurch (11 episodes 2014-2016), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (15 episodes 2015-2016), Dragons: Race to the Edge (4 episodes 2015-2016), Just Cause 3 (2015 video game), Jessica Jones (11 episodes 2015), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (1 episode 2015), Jake and the Never Land Pirates (1 episode 2015), W1A (8 episodes 2014-2015), 96 Ways to Say I Love You (2015), Gracepoint (10 episodes 2014), What We Did on Our Holiday (2014), Postman Pat: The Movie (2014), Kinect Sports Rivals (2014 video game); Mad to Be Normal (2016) completed; Chew (nd) in post-production; I Feel Fine (nd), Fish Without Bicycles (2017)  in pre-production; as Self: Inside Birmingham Children's Hospital (7 episodes 2016), Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (1 episode 2016), Don't Look Down: Rope Men (2016), Very British Problems (2 episodes 2015-2016), Have I Got News for You (2 episodes 2015-2016), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 episode 2016), Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016), Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (1 episode 2016), Room 101 (1 episode 2016), A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015), Greatest Sci-Fi Movies (2015), Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time (2015), Late Night with Seth Meyers (1 episode 2015), The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One (2015), Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC (1 episode 2015), Bring the Noise (1 episode 2015), Kids in Camps (2015), Pets: Wild at Heart (2 episodes 2015), National Television Awards (2015), The Graham Norton Show (1 episodes 2014), The Queen Latifah Show (1 episode 2014), The British Academy Scotland Awards (2014), The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (1 episode 2014), Late Show with David Letterman (1 episode 2014), Entertainment Tonight (1 episode 2014), Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion (2014), The Real History of Science Fiction (2 episodes 2014), Wings (2014), How to Get Ahead at Medieval Court (2014), Dolphins: Spy in the Pod (2 episodes 2014).
11.  Matt Smith: in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), Terminator: Genisys (2015), Doctor Who (1 episode 2014), Lost River (2014); Patient Zero (2016), The Crown (2 episodes 2016) in post-production; Mapplethorpe (nd) in pre-production; as Director: Playhouse Presents (1 episode 2013); as Self: The EE British Academy Film Awards (2016), Made in Hollywood (1 episode 2016), Up Close with Carrie Keagan (1 episode 2016), Calgary Expo 2014 (2014).
12.  John Hurt (appeared at end of Smith era but retroactively between McGann and Eccleston): in The Last Panthers (6 episodes 2015), Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (2015), A.K.A Nadia (2015), Break (2015), The Alchemist's Letter (2015), Hercules (2014); The Damascus Cover (2016), ChickLit (2016), Jackie (2016), The Journey (2016) The Final Reel (2016) completed; That Good Night (2017) in post-production; as Self: ITV Changed My Life (2015), Formula 1: BBC Sport (2 episodes 2014-2015), Wimbleton (2 episodes 2014-2015), Posh People: Inside Tatler (1 episode 2014), The Effects of 'Hercules' (2014), Alien Encounters: Superior Fan Power Since 1979 (2014), Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014), Today at Wimbleton (1 episode 2014), EE British Academy Film Awards: The Red Carpet Show (2014).
13.  Peter Capaldi: in Doctor Who (31 episodes 2014-2017), Lego Dimensions (2015 video game), Paddington (2014), Shetland (1 episode 2014), The Musketeers (10 episodes 2014); as Director/Writer, in production: Born to Be King (nd); as Self: Doctor Who: The Fan Show (4 episodes 2015-2016), Aliens: The Big Think (2016), Horizon (1 episode 2016), Lorraine (1 episode 2016), The Graham Norton Show (2 episodes 2014-2015), Doctor Who Extra (19 episodes 2014-2015), Larry King Now (1 episode 2015), Conan (1 episode 2015), Pobol y Cwm at 40 (2014), Pride of Britain Awards (2014), Blue Peter (1 episode 2014), Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour (2014), Doctor Who: Earth Conquest (2014), Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion (2014), Oprah Makes Garfield Cartoons (2014).

Movie Doctor (not canon):
Peter Cushing: died in 1994

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