William Hartnell: movies and TV shows
William Hartnell has 133 credits in the archive: 125 films and 8 TV series, from 1933 to 2025. Highest rated: Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (8.2/10).
Career timeline
1933 – 2025 · busiest year: 1965 (11 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War | Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.0 | 117 |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: The Savages | The Doctor (voice) | Film | — | 117 |
| 2024 | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 116 |
| 2024 | Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker | The Doctor (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 116 |
| 2023 | Tales of the Tardis | The Doctor | TV | 5.6 | 115 |
| 2023 | Talking Doctor Who | Self / The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 5.0 | 115 |
| 2023 | Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 115 |
| 2021 | Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 | Doctor Who | TV | — | 113 |
| 2021 | Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 | The Doctor (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 113 |
| 2019 | Mission to the Unknown | Dr. Who | Film | — | 111 |
| 2017 | Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 109 |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (1) (picture) (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 107 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 8.2 | 105 |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Self | TV | 6.4 | 105 |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 105 |
| 2012 | Don't Lose Your Head: The Making of 'The Reign of Terror' | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | — | 104 |
| 2012 | Vision On | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | — | 104 |
| 2009 | Mounting the Rescue | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | — | 101 |
| 2009 | The Sets of Marinus | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | — | 101 |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 100 |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind Us | The First Doctor (archive footage) | Film | — | 100 |
| 2006 | Creation of the Daleks | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 98 |
| 2006 | Doctor Who: Origins | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | 8.5 | 98 |
| 2006 | Masters of Sound | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 98 |
| 2006 | Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 98 |
| 2003 | Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 9.0 | 95 |
| 2002 | Remembering 'The Aztecs' | The Doctor (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 94 |
| 1998 | What's a Carry On? | Sergeant Grimshawe (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.7 | 90 |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.9 | 76 |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: The Five Doctors | The First Doctor (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 75 |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 75 |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: Earthshock | The Doctor (1) (archive footage) | Film | 8.1 | 74 |
| 1977 | That's Carry On! | Sergeant Grimshawe (archive footage) | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 1976 | Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius | The Doctor (1) (picture) (uncredited) | Film | 8.1 | 68 |
| 1973 | Doctor Who: The Three Doctors | The Doctor | Film | 7.4 | 65 |
| 1972 | Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks | The Doctor (1) (picture) (uncredited) | Film | 7.9 | 64 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Smugglers | The Doctor | Film | 5.8 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet | The Doctor (1) | Film | 7.9 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Ark | The Doctor | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The War Machines | The Doctor | Film | 7.4 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve | The Doctor / Abbot of Amboise | Film | 7.2 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Savages | The Doctor | Film | 7.2 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Gunfighters | The Doctor | Film | 6.3 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker | The Doctor | Film | 5.7 | 58 |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks | The Doctor in the mirror (uncredited) | Film | 8.1 | 58 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: Lost in Time | The Doctor | TV | — | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Chase | The Doctor | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Crusade | The Doctor | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Myth Makers | The Doctor | Film | 7.2 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Web Planet | The Doctor | Film | 5.6 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan | The Doctor | Film | 7.9 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Time Meddler | The Doctor | Film | 7.4 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Romans | The Doctor | Film | 7.8 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Space Museum | The Doctor | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 | The Doctor | Film | 5.5 | 57 |
| 1965 | Doctor Who: The Rescue | The Doctor | Film | 6.4 | 57 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus | The Doctor | Film | 5.9 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth | The Doctor | Film | 7.3 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Aztecs | The Doctor | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror | The Doctor | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: Planet of Giants | The Doctor | Film | 7.1 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: Marco Polo | The Doctor | Film | 7.2 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Daleks | The Doctor | Film | 7.3 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Sensorites | The Doctor | Film | 5.1 | 56 |
| 1964 | Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction | The Doctor | Film | 5.8 | 56 |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | The Doctor | TV | 7.9 | 55 |
| 1963 | This Sporting Life | 'Dad' Johnson | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1963 | Heavens Above! | Major Fowler | Film | 6.6 | 55 |
| 1963 | The World Ten Times Over | Dad | Film | 7.4 | 55 |
| 1963 | Tomorrow at Ten | Freddie Maddox | Film | 6.0 | 55 |
| 1963 | Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child | The Doctor | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 1963 | To Have and to Hold | Insp. Roberts | Film | 5.3 | 55 |
| 1961 | Ghost Squad | TV | 6.0 | 53 | |
| 1960 | And the Same to You | Walter 'Wally' Burton | Film | 5.9 | 52 |
| 1960 | Piccadilly Third Stop | Colonel | Film | 6.7 | 52 |
| 1960 | Jackpot | Supt. Frawley | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place | TV | 4.8 | 51 | |
| 1959 | The Mouse That Roared | Will Buckley | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1959 | Shake Hands with the Devil | Sergeant Jenkins | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 1959 | Strictly Confidential | Grimshaw | Film | 5.3 | 51 |
| 1959 | The Night We Dropped a Clanger | Sgt. Bright | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1959 | The Desperate Man | Smith | Film | 5.0 | 51 |
| 1958 | Carry On Sergeant | Sergeant Grimshawe | Film | 6.4 | 50 |
| 1958 | Date with Disaster | Tracey | Film | 5.9 | 50 |
| 1958 | On the Run | Tom Casey | Film | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1957 | The Army Game | Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore | TV | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1957 | Hell Drivers | Cartley, Hawlett Manager | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 1957 | Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst | Leading Seaman Leslie Frank | Film | 7.3 | 49 |
| 1957 | The Hypnotist | Inspector Ross | Film | 5.3 | 49 |
| 1956 | Doublecross | Herbert Whiteway | Film | 7.7 | 48 |
| 1956 | Private's Progress | Sgt. Sutton | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 1956 | Tons of Trouble | Bert | Film | 5.5 | 48 |
| 1955 | Footsteps in the Fog | Herbert Moresby | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1955 | Josephine and Men | Detective Sgt. Parsons | Film | 6.4 | 47 |
| 1953 | Will Any Gentleman...? | Detective Inspector Martin | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 1952 | The Pickwick Papers | Irate Cabman | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1952 | The Magic Box | Recruiting Sergeant | Film | 6.5 | 44 |
| 1952 | The Holly and the Ivy | Company Sergeant Major | Film | 6.5 | 44 |
| 1952 | The Ringer | Sam Hackett | Film | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1951 | The Dark Man | Superintendent of Police | Film | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1950 | Double Confession | Charlie Durham | Film | 6.2 | 42 |
| 1949 | The Lost People | Barnes | Film | 6.0 | 41 |
| 1949 | Now Barabbas | Warder Jackson | Film | 6.5 | 41 |
| 1948 | Brighton Rock | Dallow | Film | 6.8 | 40 |
| 1948 | Escape | Inspector Harris | Film | 5.7 | 40 |
| 1947 | Odd Man Out | Fencie - the barman | Film | 7.3 | 39 |
| 1947 | Temptation Harbour | Jim Brown | Film | 5.4 | 39 |
| 1946 | A Defeated People | Commentator (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1946 | Appointment with Crime | Leo Martin | Film | 6.2 | 38 |
| 1945 | The Agitator | Peter Pettinger (as Billy Hartnell) | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1945 | Murder in Reverse? | Tom Masterick | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1944 | The Way Ahead | Sgt. Ned Fletcher | Film | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1944 | Strawberry Roan | Chris Lowe | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1943 | The Bells Go Down | Brookes | Film | 7.2 | 35 |
| 1943 | The Dark Tower | Jim Towers (as Bill Hartnell) | Film | 6.2 | 35 |
| 1943 | The Peterville Diamond | Joseph (as Bill Hartnell) | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 1943 | Headline | Dell | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1942 | They Flew Alone | Scotty | Film | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1942 | The Goose Steps Out | German Officer at Station | Film | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1942 | Suspected Person | Detective Saunders | Film | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1942 | Sabotage at Sea | Jacob Digby | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1941 | Freedom Radio | Radio Location Aerial Operator (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1940 | They Came by Night | Undetermined Role | Film | 6.3 | 32 |
| 1939 | Murder Will Out | Dick | Film | — | 31 |
| 1938 | They Drive by Night | Bus Conductor | Film | 6.0 | 30 |
| 1937 | Farewell Again | Minor Role | Film | 6.5 | 29 |
| 1936 | The Crimson Circle | Film | 5.6 | 28 | |
| 1936 | Parisian Life | Film | 8.0 | 28 | |
| 1936 | Midnight at Madame Tussaud's | Stubbs | Film | 6.0 | 28 |
| 1935 | The Guv'nor | Car Salesman | Film | 7.8 | 27 |
| 1934 | The Perfect Flaw | Vickers | Film | 7.0 | 26 |
| 1933 | The Lure | Billy | Film | 10.0 | 25 |
| 1933 | Follow the Lady | Mike Martindale | Film | 7.0 | 25 |