Can you name the actors who played the Doctor in 'Doctor Who'?

Year	Actor
1987-1989
1996
2005
2005-2012
2010-present
1964 (Television)
1965-1966 (Film)
1974-1975 (Stage), 2008 (Audio)
1981 (Television)
1983 (Television)
1986 (Television)
1986 (Television), 2003 (Audio)
1996, 2000, 2006, 2007 (Stage)
1999 (Television)
1999 (Television)
1999 (Television)
1999 (Television), 2003 (Webcast)
1999 (Television)
1999 (Television)
1999 (Stage)
2001, 2003, 2008 (Audio), 2007 (Stage)
2003, 2005 (Audio)
2003, 2008 (Audio)
2003 (Audio)
2003 (Audio)
2003 (Audio)
2006 (Audio)
2008 (Television)
2010 (Television)
2010 (Television)
2011 (Audio)
2012 (Audio)

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Who Was the Doctor? Quiz

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	PhilSandifer:	Sep 14th, 2008 at 14:59 GMT		10 points
	Because documenting bonus answers is fun: Richard Hurndall, Michael Jayston, Rowan Atkinson, and Adrian Gibbs are all accepted here.

	Bray:	Nov 16th, 2008 at 15:07 GMT		15 points
	It is Chris Eccleston, not Ecclestone. ;) I know ston is accepted, but it is written down as stone.

	Lowbill:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 03:42 GMT		2 points
	Perhaps this is nitpicking, but most of these actors never played a character named "Dr. Who." The character in the TV series is only called "The Doctor" and his true name has not yet been revealed. The movies did feature an actual "Dr. Who."

	Rackie:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 18:59 GMT		5 points
	This quiz will need to be updated as they have announced a new Doctor. :)

	MisterDerp:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 07:37 GMT		10 points
	Be ready to add Matt Smith as from 2010

	davebesag:	Feb 23rd, 2009 at 21:50 GMT		19 points
	If you have Rowan Atkinson you need to have Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley who played The Doctor in the same programme.

	Epicurean:	Mar 21st, 2009 at 16:03 GMT		4 points
	Nick Scovell? I count myself a dedicated Whovian and I'm stumped by that one!! I agree with the comment above....I spent many minutes trying to type grant, broadbent and lumley!

	Kohoutek:	May 5th, 2009 at 15:13 GMT		2 points
	I went through all the Comic Relief doctors too!! Still, it would've been nice to see Who writer and fanboy Mark Gatiss as a bonus answer, as he played The Doctor in 1999 in the Doctor Who Night Special on the BBC with David Walliams from Little Britain as the Monster. :D

	pentiummmx:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 02:04 GMT		1 point
	This is a case of where I know almost all their names...but can't remember how, exactly, to spell some of their last names

	Ressa:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 15:50 GMT		2 points
	I'm afraid I have to agree with Lowbill; the quiz should be "Can you name the actors who have played The Doctor on Doctor Who" but...that's kind of an awkward phrasing...

	HarryP:	Dec 4th, 2009 at 03:42 GMT		1 point
	The Mark Gatiss as Doctor Who sketch was hilarious. Catch it on YouTube here: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGjx9sHLLf8".

	ragnarok42007:	Apr 5th, 2010 at 06:22 GMT		2 points
	@ Lowbill: Even more nitpicky - while, within the show, he has never been referred to as "Doctor Who", other than as a part of a joke, the actors who played The Doctor were credited as playing "Doctor Who" all the way up until the end of the Fourth Doctor's tenure, when they finally started crediting him as "The Doctor" in the first Fifth Doctor story. Doesn't make your point any less valid, but it is an interesting side note.

	AndreasC:	Apr 7th, 2010 at 21:26 GMT		2 points
	If you're going to include stage, why don't you include those who've played the Doctor in the Big Finish audio productions?

	Demon:	May 8th, 2010 at 20:15 GMT		1 point
	What no Shalka!Doctor? Speaking of Richard E. Grant... it DOES count, even if it isn't canon, it was a legit Doctor Who movie and Richard E. Grant WAS the Doctor... should be up there, I think...

	AhLeah:	May 11th, 2010 at 07:26 GMT		2 points
	Where's Joanna Lumley? C'mon! ;)

	Hamlet:	Jul 13th, 2010 at 01:41 GMT		3 points
	Just to add to the confusion, in the First Doctor story, The War Machines, the computer actually refers to the Doctor as "Doctor Who!"

	axelfan33:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 01:25 GMT		1 point
	i sadly barely know any of these. the way i knew tom baker was that i was just watching him on netflix. william hartnell? my family has dvds of him. what about partners?

	TimeLordess:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 12:35 GMT		3 points
	i only knew all of the tv doctor's :(

	daHOOK:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 17:17 GMT		1 point
	Tegan refers to him as 'Doctor... Whoever-you-are' when she first meets him. Cushing is the only one to play a character called Doctor Who.

	ejmXD:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 08:54 GMT		6 points
	technically, david morrisey played 'the doctor' in the 2008 christmas special :)

	joneseyboy2102:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 19:20 GMT		1 point
	@ejmXD good point i tottaly forgot about him!

	BovrilicusLlorc:	Apr 3rd, 2011 at 13:05 GMT		1 point
	Peter Cushing is the only film/stage one I got. I would have got Richard Hurndall and Rowan Atkinson too, if I had known I was meant to get them.

	Stargatecrazy:	Jun 6th, 2011 at 21:48 GMT		1 point
	I got all the actual Doctors apart from Troughton. Stupid movie Doctors lol

	elmo4484:	Aug 18th, 2011 at 13:21 GMT		0 points
	I thought Paul McGann only played The Doctor in the 1996 film?

	C3_Quest:	Mar 18th, 2012 at 01:27 GMT		0 points
	Love all you guys (including me) who guessed David Tennant right! I think he played the Doctor just perfectly!

	rierie81:	Oct 1st, 2012 at 19:02 GMT		1 point
	Could see number 5 in my head but his name just wouldn't come to me!

	doggielover2579:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 01:03 GMT		2 points
	I keep on thinking Peter Davison is Peter Davidson

	rachychuck:	May 5th, 2013 at 15:48 GMT		1 point
	Forgot the third Doctor but I think I got all the bonus answers. Nitpicking slightly but why does it say 2005-2012 by the Tenth Doctor? It should be 2005-2010.

	ehruparelia:	May 21st, 2013 at 15:33 GMT		1 point
	John Hurt also.