(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

[kathyh]

How about David Niven? He'd be incredibly witty and charming on chat shows promoting the programme, could do the comedy and physical stuff but also wasn't a bad actor when he put his mind to it ("A Matter of Life and Death").

I suppose asking to resurrect Patrick Troughton is cheating :)

[eryaforsthye.livejournal.com]

I suppose asking to resurrect Patrick Troughton is cheating :)

Or Jon Pertwee... :P

Joseph Cotten. With Orson Welles as the Master and Trevor Howard as the Brigadier. Yes.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

*cheers for this idea*

Welles as the Master, Cotten as the Doctor and Trevor Howard as the Brig would be BRILLIANT.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

No actual Doctor actors, no!

But yes, David Niven sounds great.