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William Hartnell
He played the 1st Doctor..
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William Hartnell - what members say
review by FreddieBoy20 from Rotherham
A Classic British film 16 September 2008
review by from KEYWORTH
5 March 2004
review by from Croydon, England
Dad’s army 26 April 2006
William Hartnell - filmography
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Doctor Who - The Ark
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: William Hartnell
Director: Michael Imison
Certificate: 
Another adventure for everyone's favourite time-traveller. The Doctor (William Hartnell), Steven and Dodo land on what initially appears to be a jungle, only to discover that they have arrived on a gigantic spaceship. Ten million years in the future the planet Earth has been engulfed by the Sun, ..read more »
 
75%
from 309 members
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Doctor Who - The Web Planet
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: William Hartnell
Director: Richard Martin
Certificate:
Another adventure for everyone's favourite time traveller. The Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian, Barbara and Vicki land on the planet Vortis, where a war is raging between the ant-like Zarbi and the butterfly-like Menoptra.
62%
from 1,504 member
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Doctor Who - Key Of Marinus
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Carole Ann Ford, Donald Pickering, Peter Stenson
Director: John Gorrie
Certificate: 
An early adventure for everyone's favourite time traveller. When the TARDIS lands on the planet Marinus, the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian, Barbara and Susan are captured by Arbitan, Keeper of the Conscience of Marinus. The Conscience is an all-powerful machine which controls the planet in an ..read more »
70%
from 520 members
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Doctor Who - The Sensorites
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: William Hartnell
Director: Mervyn Pinfield
Certificate:
The Doctor and his companions land on a spaceship orbiting a distant and mysterious world, where a human crew lie frozen somewhere between life and death.
The planet is the Sense-Sphere, home of the Sensorites, beings of immense intelligence and power. Unable to leave, the Doctor and his ..read more »
72%
from 206 members
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Doctor Who - The Aztecs
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Carol Ann Ford, William Hartnell, William Russell
Director: John Crockett
Certificate:
The Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) and Susan (Carol Ann Ford) find themselves stranded in Aztec times when the TARDIS is trapped in a tomb. Proclaimed a goddess by the Aztec priests, Barbara attempts to change the course of history by forbidding the ..read more »
67%
from 1,730 member
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This Sporting Life
(1963)
Starring: William Hartnell, Colin Blakely, Richard Harris
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Certificate: 
Adapted by David Storey from his own novel, This Sporting Life stars Richard Harris as Frank, an athletic coal miner who aspires to the greener pastures of professional rugby. Soon establishing himself as one of the most brutal and arrogant players in the business, Frank begins to amass a fortune. ..read more »
68%
from 1,993 member
Currently unavailable
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Doctor Who - Lost In Time
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton
Certificate:
A collection of previously lost, now restored episodes - known by fans as the 'orphaned' episodes - from the legendary Doctor Who series. Episodes are: 'The Crusade' (1); 'The Crusade' (3) - with commentary by Julian Glover and Gary Russell; 'The Daleks' Master Plan' (2) - with commentary by Peter ..read more »
65%
from 1,934 member
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Tomorrow At Ten
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: William Hartnell, Kenneth Cope, Robert Shaw
Director: Lance Comfort
Certificate:
British crime thriller starring Robert Shaw as ruthless kidnapper and blackmailer Marlowe, who has abducted a little boy. After imprisoning the child in a deserted house, Marlowe gives him a toy golliwog for comfort. But hidden inside the golliwog is a time bomb, which is set to explode at ten o'..read more »
69%
from 214 members
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The Night We Dropped A Clanger
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Brian Rix, William Hartnell, Liz Fraser
Director: Darcy Conyers
Certificate:
1960s British comedy set during World War II. British Wing Commander Blekinsop (Brian Rix) is due to carry out a top secret operation in occupied France in order to uncover information about the flying bomb. To outwit the Nazis the RAF employs Aircraftsman Arthur Atwood (also Rix) as Blekinsop's ..read more »
45%
from 34 members
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School for Scoundrels
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Janette Scott
Director: John Boulting, Mari, Robert Asher
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is one of life's losers. Despised and disregarded at work, his prospective girlfriend April (Janette Scott) is whisked from under his nose by charming bounder Raymond Delauney (Terry-Thomas). In desperation, Henry enrols at Stephen Potter's (Alastair Sim) College of ..read more »
76%
from 1,545 member
Currently unavailable
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Make Mine Mink
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John Boulting, Mari, Robert Asher
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When Dame Beatrice Appleby (Athene Seyler) receives a fur coat from her ex-jailbird maid Lily (Billie Whitelaw) she can't help but suspect that it was stolen. In order to set things right she gathers together a team of local misfits, headed by the eccentric Major Rayne (Terry-Thomas), and draws up ..read more »
66%
from 632 members
Currently unavailable
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The Mouse That Roared
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, William Hartnell, David Kossoff
Director: Jack Arnold
Certificate:
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: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United ..read more »
65%
from 1,147 member
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Carry On Sergeant
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Bill Owen, William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse
Director: Gerald Thomas
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This farce, about a sergeant (William Hartnell) who takes a bet that the last recruits he trains will win the 'Star Squad' award, was the first in what was to become a long and popular series. Inept recruits include Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor.
67%
from 1,628 member
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Too Many Crooks
(1958)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John B, Mario Zampi, Robert Asher
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Fingers (George Cole) and his gang of crooks seem to be having a run of bad luck, as they keep botching one job after another. When they try to rob the wealthy philanderer Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they manage to get things wrong once again and end up kidnapping his wife Lucy (Brenda Da Banzie) ..read more »
71%
from 828 members
Currently unavailable
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Hell Drivers
(1957)
Starring: Herbert Lom, David McCallum, Sid James
Director: Cy Endfield
Certificate:
A British crime drama. Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found it when he takes a job as a truck driver, but he soon discovers that the trucking firm he's signed on with is not playing by the rules.
70%
from 433 members
Not available for rental
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Yangtse Incident
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Michael Anderson
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HMS Amethyst is on a peaceful mission up the Yangtse delivering supplies when she is attacked by communist shore batteries and twenty-two British sailors are killed and the ship's bridge destroyed. The only way out for the survivors is to run a one hundred and forty mile gauntlet of hostility.
76%
from 155 members
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The Naked Truth
(1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Joan Sims, Irene Handl
Director: John Boulting, Mario Zampi, Mari
Certificate:
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Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is an unscrupulous tabloid publisher who is making himself rich by approaching celebrated personages with scandalous stories and offering not to print them for a certain fee. But some of his targets have had enough of this and are drawing up plans to do away with the ..read more »
67%
from 895 members
Currently unavailable
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Brothers In Law
(1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John Boulting, Robe, Roy Boulting
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A Boulting Brothers comedy starring a host of British stars. Roger Thursby (Ian Carmichael) is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge (Miles Malleson) and tricky case, ..read more »
71%
from 334 members
Currently unavailable
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Private's Progress
(1956)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John Boulting, Mari, Robert Asher
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Upper class twit Windrush (Ian Carmichael) causes military mayhem when he joins up in the army. An inept soldier, he unwittingly becomes involved in his high-ranking uncle's (Dennis Price) scam to appropriate some rather valuable spoils of war - a haul of German jewels. A sequel followed with 'I'm ..read more »
66%
from 693 members
Currently unavailable
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Footsteps In The Fog
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
Director: Arthur Lubin
Certificate:
Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons star in this compelling thriller set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London. As he buries his wife in a rain-soaked London churchyard, Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) thinks he has committed the perfect murder. He's wrong. His quick-witted young maid Lily (..read more »
69%
from 243 members
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The Holly And The Ivy
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Maureen Delany, Celia Johnson, Hugh Williams
Director: George More O'Ferrall
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Classic post-war drama starring Ralph Richardson as Martin Gregory, a clergyman whose commitment to his religious duties leads him to neglect his family. Things come to a head at the family's Christmas gathering. The film also stars Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton and Denholm Elliott.
68%
from 217 members
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Brighton Rock - Blu-ray
(1947)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley
Director: John Boulting
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Roy Boulton directs this classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel detailing the activities of a group of thugs in 1930s Brighton. Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is the head of a gang of small time crooks who make their money from a protection racket centred around Brighton race course. ..read more »
64%
from 335 members
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Brighton Rock
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley
Director: John Boulting
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Roy Boulton directs this classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel detailing the activities of a group of thugs in 1930s Brighton. Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is the head of a gang of small time crooks who make their money from a protection racket centred around Brighton race course. ..read more »
69%
from 6,535 members
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The Way Ahead
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, William Hartnell, Stanley Holloway
Director: Carol Reed
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Carol Reed directs a host of British stars in this documentary-style WW2 adventure. Following the Dunkirk retreat, Lt. Jim Perry (David Niven) is assigned a bunch of raw recruits and sets about transforming them from bickering civilians into a proficient battle-ready fighting force. When training ..read more »
70%
from 808 members
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The Army Game - Vol. 2
(3 discs)
Starring: William Hartnell, Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass
Director: Eric Fawcett, Gordon Flemyng
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Second volume of the popular 1950s British television series about a group of hopeless National Service conscripts assigned to the Surplus Ordnance Department, starring Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, Frank Williams, Ted Lune and William Hartnell, among others. This volume includes the remaining 24 ..read more »
64%
from 77 members
Not available for rental
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And The Same To You
on DVD
Starring: Brian Rix, Sid James, William Hartnell
Director: George Pollock
Certificate:
British comedy involving Dickie Dreadnought, the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To placate his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be ..read more »
56%
from 316 members
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William Hartnell facts
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...xual character so well. Excellent performances from some English actors such as William Hartnell and Nigel Stock who would have long careers in film and television.
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