Regenerations of The Doctor
by dan_dassow | created - 16 Jul 2017 | updated - 16 Jul 2017 | PublicThe BBC announced the 13th Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, on Sunday July 16, 2017. In honor of the first woman to play The Doctor, which regeneration scene is your favorite?
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1. William Hartnell
Actor | Carry On Sergeant
William Hartnell was born on 8 January 1908, just south of St. Pancras station in London. In press materials in the 1940s he claimed that his father was a farmer and later a stockbroker; it turns out that he had actually been born out of wedlock, as his biography "Who's There?" states.
At age 16 he ...
First Doctor - The Tenth Planet: Episode 4 (1966)
2. Patrick Troughton
Actor | The Omen
Patrick Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London and was educated at Mill Hill School. He trained as an actor at the Embassy School of Acting in the UK and at Leighton Rollin's Studio for for Actors at Long Island, New York in the USA. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy and after the ...
Second Doctor - The War Games: Episode Ten (1969)
3. Jon Pertwee
Actor | Doctor Who
Jon Pertwee is best known for his portrayal of the Third Doctor on the BBC's science-fiction television series Doctor Who (1963) from 1970 to 1974. He was also the first to play the role following the transition of BBC One from black and white to colour. His 60-year entertainment career included ...
Third Doctor - Planet of the Spiders: Part Six (1974)
4. Tom Baker
Actor | Doctor Who
One of Britain's most recognizable (and most larger-than-life) character actors, Tom Baker is best known for his record-setting seven-year stint as the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). He was born in 1934 in Liverpool, to Mary Jane (Fleming) and John Stewart Baker. His father was of English and ...
Fourth Doctor - Logopolis: Part Four (1981)
5. Peter Davison
Actor | Doctor Who
Peter Davison was born as Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett on 13 April 1951 in Streatham, London. A decade later, he and his family - his parents, Sheila and Claude (an electrical engineer who hailed from British Guiana), and his sisters, Barbara, Pamela and Shirley, moved to Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, ...
Fifth Doctor - The Caves of Androzani: Part Four (1984)
6. Colin Baker
Actor | Doctor Who
Colin Baker was born in 1943 in the Royal Waterloo Lying-In Hospital in London during an air raid. He spent his earliest years in London with his mother, while his father served in the armed forces. He narrowly avoided an early death during the wartime blitz when a piece of flying shrapnel just ...
Sixth Doctor - Time and the Rani: Part Four (1987)
7. Sylvester McCoy
Actor | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Sylvester McCoy was born in Dunoon, Scotland. He spent much of his childhood in Dublin, Ireland. Before becoming an actor, as Percy Smith he trained as a priest, sold insurance and acted as a bodyguard for the Rolling Stones. He started his acting career as a part of the Ken Campbell Roadshow, at ...
Seventh Doctor - Doctor Who (1996)
8. Paul McGann
Actor | Alien³
Paul McGann was born on November 14, 1959 in Kensington, Liverpool, England. He is an actor, known for Alien³ (1992), The Three Musketeers (1993) and Withnail & I (1987). He has been married to Annie Milner since 1992. They have two children.
Eighth Doctor - The Night of the Doctor (2013)
9. Christopher Eccleston
Actor | Doctor Who
Christopher Eccleston trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It (1991). However, it was a regular role in the television series Cracker (1993) that made him a recognizable figure in the United Kingdom. He appeared in the ...
Ninth Doctor - The Parting of the Ways (2005)
10. David Tennant
Actor | Doctor Who
Often considered one of Scotland's greatest actors, David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald, who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent. When he was about 3 or 4 years old, he decided to ...
Tenth Doctor - The End of Time: Part Two (2010)
11. Matt Smith
Actor | Doctor Who
Matt Smith is an English actor who shot to fame in the UK aged 26 when he was cast by producer Steven Moffat as the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC's iconic science-fiction adventure series Doctor Who (2005).
Matthew Robert Smith was born and raised in Northampton, the son of Lynne (Fidler) and David ...
Eleventh Doctor - The Time of the Doctor (2013)
12. Peter Capaldi
Actor | Doctor Who
Peter Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy (Soutar) and Gerald John Capaldi. His parents owned an ice cream business. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), Scottish, and Irish descent. Capaldi attended drama classes and was accepted into the Glasgow School of Art. After ...
Twelfth Doctor - The Doctor Falls (2017) / Twice Upon a Time (2017)
13. John Hurt
Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...
The War Doctor - The Day of the Doctor (2013)
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