Cast: William Hartnell

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring William Hartnell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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