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Fourteen actors have portrayed The Doctor in a leading role in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series' protagonist , the Doctor is an extraterrestrial Time Lord . The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the narrative through the plot device of regeneration , which allows Time Lords a change of ...
Peter Dougan Capaldi (/ k ə ˈ p æ l d i /; [1] born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.
Jameson was replaced by Mary Tamm, who played Romana, a Time Lady and one of the Doctor's own species. Tamm stayed on for just one season before her character regenerated in Destiny of the Daleks and was portrayed by Lalla Ward. Baker, Ward and Leeson were joined by Matthew Waterhouse, the actor who played Adric, in Full Circle.
In the serial, the alien time traveller the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) investigates the murder of two servants during a fancy dress party. This story was the first purely historical adventure for the Doctor—featuring no science fiction elements save for the TARDIS and the regular cast—since The Highlanders (1966).
Many former Doctor Who actors, including former Doctors Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, appear in the series playing different roles. (Due to licensing restrictions, no overt reference to The Doctor is permitted.) Doctor Who alumna Louise Jameson co-stars with Caroline John in the original four films, as Patricia ...
Former The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Peter Thomas found himself in legal trouble once again as he was arrested in the Atlanta area for DUI.According to the booking sheet obtained by ET ...
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Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett [1] (born 13 April 1951), known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor. He made his television acting debut in 1975 and became famous in 1978 as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot 's All Creatures Great and Small stories.