User:WaltK/List of actors who portrayed the Doctor

Television

 * William Hartnell
 * Originated the role on television, beginning in 1963 with An Unearthly Child, and ending in 1966 with The Tenth Planet, excluding serials in which the Doctor does not himself appear. After this tenure, Hartnell reprised the role for a final time in the opening episode of 1973's The Three Doctors.


 * Richard Hurndall
 * Hurndall stepped into the role for the only time in the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors, as Hartnell had long-since passed away by this point. Hurndell was the first actor to inherit the role of a previously-established incarnation.


 * David Bradley
 * Bradley had initially played William Hartnell himself in the 2013 docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time, before going on to voice the First Doctor for Big Finish Productions. In 2017, he portrayed the First Doctor in the television stories The Doctor Falls and Twice Upon a Time, becoming the third actor to play the incarnation on screen. Hartnell later appeared again in The Power of the Doctor as one incarnation of the "Guardians of the Edge", a manifestation within the Doctor's mind who switches between the appearances of various past incarnations.

Voice actors
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Second Doctor
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Third Doctor
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Fourth Doctor
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Fifth Doctor
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Sixth Doctor
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Seventh Doctor
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Eighth Doctor
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War Doctor

 * John Hurt
 * The first and primary actor to play him on screen, in the 2013 stories The Name of the Doctor, The Night of the Doctor, and The Day of the Doctor. Hurt also reprised the role in Big Finish Productions' line of War Doctor audios, from 2015 and until his death in 2017.


 * Paul McGann
 * Returning to play the Eighth Doctor for his final adventure in the 2013 webcast, The Night of the Doctor, McGann briefly served as the faceless body double of the newly regenerated War Doctor in the story's final few seconds.

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Tenth Doctor

 * David Tennant
 * Tennant first appeared as the Tenth Doctor in the final moments of 2005's The Parting of the Ways and continued to play the character until the end of the 2009/2010 festive special, The End of Time. He later reprised the role again for the 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor, and again for various Big Finish audio stories.

Eleventh Doctor

 * Matt Smith
 * The main actor to portray the role on screen, beginning with the final scene in The End of Time: Part 2 and until The Time of the Doctor, a tenure which spanned across Series 5 through 7. He also made a cameo toward the end of his immediate successor's first story, Deep Breath.


 * Daniel Anthony
 * Anthony briefly acted as the Eleventh Doctor for just a few seconds in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial, Death of the Doctor, during a scene where the Doctor briefly spoke through Anthony's character Clyde Langer. Anthony's single line of dialogue was overdubbed by Matt Smith during the scene.

Twelfth Doctor
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Thirteenth Doctor

 * Jodie Whittaker
 * The main actor to portray the role on screen, beginning with the final scene of Twice Upon a Time.


 * Debra Stephenson
 * Voiced her in the webcast Doctors Assemble!

Fourteenth Doctor
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The Valeyard
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The Timeless Child
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Fugitive Doctor
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