User:WaltK/List of actors who portrayed the Doctor

First Doctor

 * 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, and individual episodes and scenes in which a stand-in was used instead. After this tenure, Hartnell reprised the role for a final time in the opening episode of 1973's The Three Doctors.


 * Brian Proudfoot
 * Served as an uncredited double for Hartnell in The Rein of Terror and The Space Museum during certain wideshots.


 * Edmund Warwick
 * Stood in for Hartnell in The Dalek Invasion of Earth after Hartnell hurt himself and was unable to put in a full performance.


 * Albert Ward
 * Stood in for Hartnell in episodes two and three of The Celestial Toymaker, as Hartnell was on holiday during production.


 * Gordon Craig
 * Stood in for Hartnell in episide 3 of The Tenth Planet, when Hartnell was too ill to work.


 * Richard Hurndall
 * Became the second actor to portray the First Doctor fully on screen, doing so in The Five Doctors, taking over for the then-long deceased Hartnell.


 * David Coker
 * Recorded some new dialogue for both the first and second Doctors in the 1997 video game, Destiny of the Doctors.


 * Joe Bassett
 * Voiced the First Doctor as a child in the Big Finish audio story, Master.


 * John Guilor
 * Voiced the First Doctor in the reproduction of the fourth episode of Planet of Giants, and later in 2013's The Day of the Doctor.


 * William Russell
 * The actor behind the First Doctor's early companion, Ian Chesterton, got the chance to voice him in the 2013 Big Finish audio The Light at the End, and would go on to voice him again in subsiquent First Doctor releases in The Early Adventures range.


 * Peter Purves
 * The actor behind First Doctor companion, Steven Taylor, also played the Doctor himself in various Big Finish ranges.


 * Anneke Wills
 * to be added


 * David Bradley
 * After portraying William Hartnell himself in the 2013 docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time, Bradley went on to voice the First Doctor in various Big Finish ranges and, in 2017, portrayed him on screen in Twice Upon a Time.

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.

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.

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!