When was the actor who played the War Doctor born?
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War Doctor The War Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme "Doctor Who". He was portrayed by the English actor John Hurt. Although he precedes Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor in the show's fictional chronology, his first onscreen appearance came eight years after Eccleston's; the War Doctor was retroactively created by showrunner Steven Moffat for productions celebrating the show's 50th anniversary.
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John Hurt Sir John Vincent Hurt, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world".
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Mark Strickson Mark Strickson (born 6 April 1959) is a British TV producer and actor best known for his acting role as the character of Vislor Turlough, a companion of the Fifth Doctor, on the television series "Doctor Who."
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Ninth Doctor The Ninth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme "Doctor Who". He is portrayed by Christopher Eccleston during the first series of the show's revival in 2005. Within the programme's narrative, the Doctor is a time travelling, humanoid alien from a race known as the Time Lords. When the Doctor is critically injured, he can regenerate his body but in doing so gains a new physical appearance and with it, a distinct new personality.
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Engines of War (Doctor Who) Engines of War is a BBC Books original novel written by George Mann and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the War Doctor.
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Nicholas Clay Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay (18 September 1946 – 25 May 2000) was an English actor.
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Christopher Benjamin Christopher Benjamin (born December 27, 1934) is an English actor, well known for portraying Henry Gordon Jago in "Doctor Who". He also provided the voice of Rowf in the animated film "The Plague Dogs" (1982).
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David Quilter David Quilter (born 11 June 1942) is an English actor who has made numerous appearances in British television plays and series since the mid-1960s.
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Don Henderson Donald Francis Henderson (10 November 1931 – 22 June 1997) was an English actor of stage, television and screen. Henderson was known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures, and is remembered for his portrayal of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in the popular Granada Television police drama series "The XYY Man", "Strangers", and "Bulman", as priest Frank Kane in BBC drama "The Paradise Club" (1989–90), and as General Tagge in the first "Star Wars" film (1977). This last role also brought him attention from science fiction fans, and he later appeared in cult science fiction television series "Red Dwarf" and "Doctor Who".
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Vince O'Brien Vince O'Brien (c. 1919 – June 19, 2010) was an American character actor, who appeared as a doctor in Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" and appeared on television and in print ads as the Shell Answer Man.
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Simon Shepherd Simon Stephen Shepherd (born 20 August 1956) is an English actor. He is best known to TV audiences from many appearances, including as Dr Will Preston in five series of ITV's "Peak Practice" and Doctor Jonathan Barling in Casualty in Five Days.
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Fifth Doctor The Fifth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He is portrayed by Peter Davison.
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Derek Thompson (actor) Derek Thompson (born 4 April 1948) is a Northern Irish actor, most notable for playing Charlie Fairhead in the long-running BBC television medical drama series "Casualty". Thompson has played the role since the series' inception in 1986.
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Roger Leach (actor) Roger Leach (22 April 1948 – 1 December 2001) was an English-Australian actor who played Sgt. Tom Penny in "The Bill", and guest starred in "Bergerac", "Perfect Scoundrels" and "Doctors".
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Sam Dastor Sam Dastor (born 2 October 1941) is an actor best known for his appearances in British television series.
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Jonathan Miller Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specialising in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.
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Ross Elliott Ross Elliott (June 18, 1917 – August 12, 1999) was an American television and film character actor. He began his acting career in the Mercury Theatre, where he performed in "The War of the Worlds", Orson Welles' famed radio program.
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Alan Ruscoe Alan Ruscoe is a British actor who is best known for his work as various aliens, monsters and androids in the "Star Wars" films and the television series "Doctor Who".
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Eighth Doctor The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He is portrayed by Paul McGann.
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Lee Warburton Lee Warburton (born 27 June 1971, Cheshire, England) is a British actor, known for several ongoing television roles.
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Timothy Bentinck Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck (born 1 June 1953 in Tasmania, Australia), commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an English peer and actor, most widely known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series, "The Archers".
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Laurence Harrington Laurence Harrington (born 30 September 1938) is a British actor who has played DS Probert in "Z-Cars", Lunar Guard in "Doctor Who", George Latimer in "Softly, Softly", the Lawyer in "The Sweeney", Jackson in "", Gary in "Agony", Jeff Sadler in "Boon", Cyril Harrington-Morse in "Lovejoy", Vic Lawson in "Love Hurts" and James Palfrey in "Dalziel and Pascoe". He has also guest-starred in "Agatha Christie's Poirot", "The Bill", "Casualty", "Holby City" and "Doctors", and appeared in films such as "The Boys in Blue" (1982), "Don't Open till Christmas" (1984), "Car Trouble" (1986), "Out of Order" (1987) and "Afraid of the Dark" (1991). Harrington also appeared in the British band Naked Eyes' 1984 music Video "(What) In the Name of Love".