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Acting

William Hartnell

Career: Active from 1933 to 2025, with a break from 1984 to 2001, busiest in 1965 with 10 main titles.

Leading roles: 55
top three billing

Average score: 67/100

Highest rated: Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 41 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

William Hartnell Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.9, average 5.4
Family Dynamics
3.2, average 4.8
Coming of Age
1.5, average 3.0
Romance
2.6, average 3.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Mystery 5
Classic Sci-Fi 4
Nostalgic 4
Psychological Thriller 4
Classic Doctor Who 4
Moral Ambiguity 4
Character-Driven 4
Educational 4
Historical Setting 4
Social Commentary 3
Early Doctor Who 2
Fantasy Elements 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

129

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

8 titles · average score 66

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

as Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: The Savages

as The Doctor (voice)

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

as The Doctor (voice)

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Tales of the Tardis

66

TV show · as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

TV show · as Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

as The Doctor (voice)

2010s

7 titles · average score 84

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

79

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

82

as The Doctor (1) (picture) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

86

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

An Adventure in Space and Time

89

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Don't Lose Your Head: The Making of 'The Reign of Terror'

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Vision On

as The Doctor (archive footage)

2000s

10 titles · average score 73

Mounting the Rescue

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

The Sets of Marinus

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

73

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

The Ties That Bind Us

as The First Doctor (archive footage)

Masters of Sound

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Creation of the Daleks

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Origins

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

Remembering 'The Aztecs'

as The Doctor (archive footage)

1990s

1 title

What's a Carry On?

as Sergeant Grimshawe (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

4 titles · average score 79

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

79

as The First Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Earthshock

as The Doctor (1) (archive footage)

1970s

4 titles · average score 51

That's Carry On!

51

as Sergeant Grimshawe (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

as The Doctor (1) (picture) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

as The Doctor (1) (picture) (uncredited)

1960s

40 titles · average score 69

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

71

as The Doctor / Abbot of Amboise

Doctor Who: The Chase

70

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Space Museum

72

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

79

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Crusade

67

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Aztecs

66

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Daleks

75

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus

66

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

76

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

68

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as The Doctor

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

77

as The Doctor

1950s

25 titles · average score 66

The Mouse That Roared

79

as Will Buckley

The Desperate Man

as Smith

Carry On Sergeant

58

as Sergeant Grimshawe

Date with Disaster

56

as Tracey

The Army Game

TV show · as Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

74

as Leading Seaman Leslie Frank

Hell Drivers

78

as Cartley, Hawlett Manager

Tons of Trouble

as Bert

Private's Progress

69

as Sgt. Sutton

Doublecross

as Herbert Whiteway

Footsteps in the Fog

70

as Herbert Moresby

The Ringer

62

as Sam Hackett

1940s

22 titles · average score 64

The Lost People

as Barnes

Brighton Rock

85

as Dallow

Escape

61

as Inspector Harris

Odd Man Out

85

as Fencie - the barman

Temptation Harbour

62

as Jim Brown

Appointment with Crime

55

as Leo Martin

A Defeated People

as Commentator (voice)

Murder in Reverse

67

as Tom Masterick

The Agitator

as Peter Pettinger (as Billy Hartnell)

Strawberry Roan

as Chris Lowe

The Dark Tower

51

as Jim Powers (as Bill Hartnell)

The Bells Go Down

59

as Brookes

1930s

8 titles · average score 74

Murder Will Out

as Dick

They Drive by Night

65

as Bus Conductor

Farewell Again

as Minor Role

Midnight at Madame Tussaud's

as Stubbs

The Guv'nor

83

as Car Salesman

The Perfect Flaw

as Vickers

Follow the Lady

as Mike Martindale

as Billy