(Dead) Actors and the Doctor

[selenak]

While we're waiting for the big announcement: I got around to listening to David Tennant being interviewed on Broadcasting House (Dec. 21st) . Basically your standard "so, how does it feel to play Hamlet after the Doctor" interview, but two replies made me smile: one to the question whether he wants to play James Bond (which was basically "no way, and also, no, but a Bond villain would be fun"), and the other as to which dead actor he'd regard as great casting for the Doctor. The interviewer boringly suggested Laurence Olivier. David T., bless his fannish heart, politely let that pass and came up with Charles Laughton instead. Which instantly made me wish for a time travel device of my own, because YES. Charles Laughton would have done great and original things with the Doctor.

It also made me wonder: which dead and gone actor would you regard as good Doctor casting?

Comments

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

It probably wouldn't work, because he played an iconic character all of his own, but: Jeremy Brett. And possibly Denholm Elliot. He would be the eccentric uncle kind of Doctor.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Now I'm reminded of that scene in Silurians where the Brig and the Doctor actually call each other Holmes and Watson.:) But yes, Jeremy Brett could have done it.

Denholm Elliot: remind me of films or shows?

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Denholm Elliot: remind me of films or shows?

He is Marcus Brody (he who got lost in his own museum) in the first and the third Indiana Jones movie, and he plays Julian Sands' father in Room With A View.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Denholm Elliot: Indiana Jones's friend Marcus ("Spricht hier jemand Alt-Griechisch?")
He also appeared as a drunk surgeon in the Richard Chamberlain version of the ´Bourne-Identity" and you may have seen him as the sad butler in Trading Places. I always adored Denholm Elliot. I was very sad when I heard that he had died.

Jeremy Brett would have made an awesome doctor, too. I was lucky. Twenty years ago, on our honeymoon, hubby and I got to see him on stage in "The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes". :-)

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you. I was upset at coming to the conversation late but Jeremy Brett would have been my answer anyway.:)