William Hartnell

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1908 age 0

   Born

2. 1947 age 39

   CreditRoman Polanski: Odd Man Out

3. 1959 age 51

   CreditThe Mouse That Roared

4. 1963 age 55

   CreditThis Sporting Life

5. 1975 age 67

   Died

6. 1983 age 67

   CreditThe Five Doctors

• ESElisabeth Sladen2 titles
• JPJon Pertwee2 titles
• TBTom Baker2 titles
• PTPatrick Troughton2 titles
• PDPeter Davison2 titles
• CFCarole Ann Ford2 titles
• RSRoy Skelton2 titles
• CJCaroline John2 titles
• NCNicholas Courtney2 titles
• FHFrazer Hines2 titles

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• I was so pleased to be offered Doctor Who. To me kids are the greatest audience - and the greatest critics - in the world.

  William Hartnell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It may seem like hindsight now, but I just knew that Doctor Who was going to be an enormous success. Don't ask me how. Not everybody thought as I did. I was universally scoffed at for my initial faith in the series, but I believed in it. It was magical.

  William Hartnell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, "This is going to run for five years." And look what's happened!

  William Hartnell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You know, I couldn't go out into the high street without a bunch of kids following me. I felt like the Pied Piper.

  William Hartnell, CC BY-SA 4.0