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Outside of television many actors have played the Doctor on in various BBC-licensed spin-offs on television, stage, radio, film, audio plays, and webcasts. The character's ability to periodically regenerate appearance and personality has facilitated the ability of new actors to take over the role – in official and unofficial productions ...
The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film directed by Randa Haines.It is loosely based on Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's 1988 memoir A Taste Of My Own Medicine. [1] The film stars William Hurt as Jack McKee, a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships.
The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further the story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.)
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Fictional doctor Actor All My Children: Dr. Angie Baxter Dr. David Hayward Dr. Jonathan Kinder Dr. Greg Madden Dr. Josh Madden #1 #2 Dr. Jake Martin#1 #2 Dr. Jeff Martin #1 #2 Dr. Joe Martin Dr. Maria Santos Dr. Julia Santos Keefer Dr. David Thornton Dr. Charles Tyler Dr. Cliff Warner: Debbi Morgan Vincent Irizarry Michael Sabatino Ian Buchanan ...
Character Appearances Season 1 (1963–64) Season 2 (1964–65) Season 3 (1965–66) Season 4 (1966–67) Season 5 (1967–68) Season 6 (1968–69) Season 7 (1970) Season 8 (1971) Season 9 (1972) Season 10 (1972–73) William Hartnell: The Doctor: First: Starring: Guest Patrick Troughton: Second: Starring: Guest Jon Pertwee: Third: Starring ...
To make up for his lack of a practical name, the Doctor often relies upon convenient pseudonyms. In The Gunfighters (1966), the First Doctor uses the alias Dr. Caligari. In The Highlanders (1966–67), the Second Doctor assumes the name of "Doctor von Wer" (a German approximation of "Doctor Who"), and signs himself as "Dr. W" in The Underwater ...
Ian Chesterton is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor.He was played in the series by William Russell and was one of the members of the programme's first regular cast, appearing in much of the first two seasons from 1963 to 1965. [1]