User:WaltK/List of actors who portrayed the Doctor

First Doctor

 * William Hartnell
 * Originated the role on television, appearing in every TV serial in the first three seasons, plus the first two serials of Season 4 (excluding stories where the Doctor does not appear), as well as briefly reprising the role in 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.