Doctor Who's 60th anniversary: where are the Time Lords now?
We are now just a few days away from the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, which is being celebrated on Saturday with the release of the first of three specials. David Tennant will be returning to play the Doctor, and his companion, Donna Temple-Noble (Catherine Tate) will also be back on our screens for the new trio of standalone adventures.
Doctor Who, the 1018-year-old time travelling alien, has become one of the UK's most well-loved and best-known television characters; the sci-fi show has run, in various iterations, on the BBC since 1963. Handily the Doctor - the human name given to the Time Lord - can regenerate, meaning that over a dozen actors have been able to carry the baton over the last 60 years.
Most of the actors who have stepped up to play the Doctor have either been celebrated actors before taking on the iconic part, or they used the beloved show as a springboard to even bigger successes. Here’s what they went on to do after playing the Doctor.
The original series:
William Hartnell (1908-1967)
First Doctor: 1963-1966, returning 1972-1973
Hartnell had enjoyed a relatively successful career in stage and film before becoming Doctor Who. Raised by a single mother in the slums of St Pancras slum, the Londoner was up against a lot of obstacles when it came to rising to fame; but after meeting English art collector Hugh Blaker, who took a shine to him, his prospects changed. Blaker
