(Dead) Actors and the Doctor
Jan. 3rd, 2009 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakWhile 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?
It also made me wonder: which dead and gone actor would you regard as good Doctor casting?
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Date: 2009-01-03 08:55 am (UTC)Early Peter Ustinov. Most other actors that come to my mind, are, while high in age, fortunately still alive ;-)
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Date: 2009-01-03 09:29 am (UTC)No Alec Guinness from you is a bit surprising. Would he work better as a companion?
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:09 am (UTC)I suppose asking to resurrect Patrick Troughton is cheating :)
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:33 am (UTC)Or Jon Pertwee... :P
Joseph Cotten. With Orson Welles as the Master and Trevor Howard as the Brigadier. Yes.
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:50 am (UTC)Welles as the Master, Cotten as the Doctor and Trevor Howard as the Brig would be BRILLIANT.
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:52 am (UTC)And one incarnation of the Master would be Cary Grant, and James Stewart would be a Companion. *is great fan of The Philadelphia Story*
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:53 am (UTC)But yes, David Niven sounds great.
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Date: 2009-01-03 10:55 am (UTC)Denholm Elliot: remind me of films or shows?
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Date: 2009-01-03 11:09 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-01-03 11:48 am (UTC)And, of course, William Hartnell :)
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