Cast: William Hartnell
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring William Hartnell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 71
Odd Man Out
1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick
Synopsis Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds needed to continue its activities. During the hold-up, things go...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
This Sporting Life
1963 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lindsay Anderson
Cast Richard Harris · Glenda Jackson · Rachel Roberts · Alan Badel
Synopsis Richard Harris is Frank Machin, an aggressive rugby-playing miner in the north of England who destroys the relationship he wants most by the force of his rebellious will. Anderson's incisive comment on class expatiation is as forceful as it is...
7.0
858 votes
7.0
858 votes
Doctor Who (TV Series)
1963 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sydney Newman · Douglas Camfield · David Maloney · Christopher Barry
Cast William Hartnell · Patrick Troughton · Jon Pertwee · Tom Baker
Synopsis TV Series (1963-1989). 26 Seasons. 696 Episodes. The quintessential "mortgage lifter" for many a financially flagging PBS station, the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who was not always a big favorite in America. The series detailed the wide-ranging adventures...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors (TV)
1972 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lennie Mayne
Cast Jon Pertwee · Patrick Troughton · Katy Manning · William Hartnell
Synopsis A special story to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the show. Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords' energy is being drained through a black hole by a mysterious enemy. They enlist the Doctor in his first three incarnations...
7.0
47 votes
7.0
47 votes
Footsteps in the Fog
1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Bill Travers · Finlay Currie
Synopsis To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her...
7.0
783 votes
7.0
783 votes
Hell Drivers
1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cy Endfield
Cast Stanley Baker · Herbert Lom · Peggy Cummins · Patrick McGoohan
Synopsis Joe 'Tom' Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where speed is everything. Doing too less runs in a day?...
6.9
339 votes
6.9
339 votes
Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV)
1964 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Martin
Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford · Jacqueline Hill
Synopsis The Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara return to London; however there are bodies in the river, quiet in the docklands, terrible monsters roam the countryside and the streets are stalked by mind-controlled human puppets. It's the 22nd century.. and the...
6.6
62 votes
6.6
62 votes
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (TV)
1966 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Derek Martinus
Cast William Hartnell · Anneke Wills · Michael Craze · Robert Beatty
Synopsis An important adventure - introduced both the Cybermen and the concept of regeneration. The TARDIS lands in a station in Antarctica in 1986. The Doctor, Polly and Ben are just in time to witness the arrival in the solar system...
6.6
33 votes
6.6
33 votes
Doctor Who: The Daleks (TV)
1963 · Movie · 171 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Barry
Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford · Jacqueline Hill
Synopsis The second story of the show. As the Doctor tries in vain to return Ian and Barbara to their own time, the companions find themselves on a petrified planet called Skaro. Skaro is home to two races, both mutated in...
6.6
120 votes
6.6
120 votes
Escape
1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland
Synopsis Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant had been casually speaking. Rankling under the injustice, Denant flees...
6.5
104 votes
6.5
104 votes
Brighton Rock
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boulting
Cast Richard Attenborough · Carol Marsh · Hermione Baddeley · William Hartnell
Synopsis Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. This doesn't convince Ida Arnold, who was...
6.5
338 votes
6.5
338 votes
Tomorrow at Ten
1963 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort
Cast John Gregson · Robert Shaw · Alec Clunes · Alan Wheatley
Synopsis It's a race against time for the police when they have to find a kidnapped boy imprisoned with a time bomb, after his abductor dies without revealing the child's whereabouts.
6.3
54 votes
6.3
54 votes
Doctor Who: The Chase (TV)
1965 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Martin · Douglas Camfield
Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien · Jacqueline Hill
Synopsis Daleks manage to construct their own time machine and begin pursuing the TARDIS across time and space. The chase takes in a number of stopping-off points, including a dying desert planet, a spooky haunted house, the Empire State Building and...
6.3
34 votes
6.3
34 votes
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child (TV)
1963 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Waris Hussein
Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford · Jacqueline Hill
Synopsis The adventure that started the show. Two schoolteachers decide to follow a strange pupil, Susan, home one night. "Home” turns out to be a time machine - the TARDIS - whose outer appearance of a battered blue police box leads...
6.2
173 votes
6.2
173 votes
Doctor Who: The Time Meddler (TV)
1965 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Douglas Camfield
Cast William Hartnell · Maureen O'Brien · Peter Purves · Peter Butterworth
Synopsis The Doctor, Vicki, and new companion Steven Taylor arrive in Saxon Northumbria on the eve of the Viking and Norman invasions. It is 1066, just prior to the Battle of Hastings and a pivotal moment in British history. But the...
6.2
27 votes
6.2
27 votes
The Mouse that Roared
1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Arnold
Cast Peter Sellers · Jean Seberg · David Kossoff · William Hartnell
Synopsis The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled wine. Crafty prime minister Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) comes up with a plan:...
6.1
405 votes
6.1
405 votes
The Way Ahead
1944 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast David Niven · Stanley Holloway · James Donald · Peter Ustinov
Synopsis A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. At first they appear a hopeless bunch but their sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them and mould them into a good team. When they go into action...
6.0
39 votes
6.0
39 votes
Doctor Who: The Aztecs (TV)
1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Crockett
Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford · Jacqueline Hill
Synopsis In 1430 South America, Barbara is mistaken by the Aztecs, a mixture of high culture and brutal savagery, as the reincarnation of the High Priest Yetaxa. Now regarded as a living deity, Barbara must decide whether or not to change...
5.9
69 votes
5.9
69 votes
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants (TV)
1964 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mervyn Pinfield · Douglas Camfield
Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford · Jacqueline Hill
Synopsis The TARDIS doors open while the ship is still in flight by accident. Although they have arrived back on Earth in the 1960s, the travellers discover that they have all be reduced to just inches in height and the world...
5.9
49 votes
5.9
49 votes
Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus (TV)
1964 · Movie · 147 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gorrie
Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford · Jacqueline Hill
Synopsis On the planet Marinus, the scientist Arbitan locks the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara out of the TARDIS in a desperate bid to convince them to embark on a quest to find a lost set of keys. These keys power...
5.8
63 votes
5.8
63 votes