The Many Faces of Doctor Who

This should really include Edmund Warwick, Gordon Craig, Brian Proudfoot and some child's legs but there are limits...

Not really novelisations-related (as in not at all) but I found myself wondering who had played the Doctor the other day and was surprised to discover that it was very difficult to get a complete list. http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Doubles_for_the_Doctor doesn't seem to be very accurate; http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/roles.php?code=D&type=cast is excellent, largely cribbed off the DWM Specials whilst being wonderfully searchable, but doesn't do images for most; http://movie-dude.co.uk/[TV]%20'Doctor%20Who'.htm does but barely makes it out of the 1960s.

So I thought I'd have a go at it myself. I've decided to skip parodies and pastiches (except for The Curse of Fatal Death since it was so high profile), fan productions (though Nick Briggs sneaks in by other means) and vocal performances in non- full cast audio productions (otherwise pretty much all the 60s companions would be in for a start). I strongly suspect it's still incomplete, especially with regards to the Doctor inhabiting other bodies in Big Finish stories and doubles for Peter Capaldi, but it still feels closer to what I was looking for that anything I could find already online.

All of which means that if you do want to see all the people who've played the Doctor (I make it 117 so far - 113 if you want to exclude Joanna Lumley and co, 112 if you're also curmudgeonly about the Sky Ray adverts, 102 if you also don't count trailer-only appearances), click on the picture of the joint longest-serving Doctor (Terry Walsh, 1970-9) to the right and you'll never be caught short in a pub quiz ever again...

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