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  • This Sporting Life
  • This Sporting Life review by Zamy from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Great film 4 April 2005
    ...is first rate with strong support from the likes of Alan Badel, Arthur Lowe and William Hartnell. This is very much a film of its time and a grey northern England environment. ...   Read customer review
  • Brighton Rock
  • Brighton Rock review by FreddieBoy20 from Rotherham
    Rated - 4.0 stars A Classic British film 16 September 2008
    ...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. The pac...   Read customer review
  • Hell Drivers
  • Hell Drivers review by from KEYWORTH
    Rated - 5.0 stars 5 March 2004
    ...at macho movie with a superb cast including Herbert Lom, Sid James, Alfie Bass, William Hartnell and a young Sean Connery. Great to see Marjorie Rhodes in this film and an appe...   Read customer review

William Hartnell - filmography


  • Doctor Who - The Ark on DVD (1966)
    Starring: William Hartnell
    Director: Michael Imison
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Doctor, Steven and Dodo materialise in what appears to be a jungle on Earth. It's a place where things are not what they seem... Includes the episodes 'The Steel Sky', 'The Plague', 'The Return', and 'The Bomb'.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 226 members
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  • Doctor Who - The Aztecs on DVD (1964)
    Starring: William Hartnell,  William Russell
    Director: John Crockett
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Doctor Who (William Hartnell) and the crew of the Tardis find themselves inside of a 15th-century Aztec temple. Things soon go awry when Barbara is worshiped by the civilization as the goddess Yetaxa. Barbara decides to take advantage of her newfound status as a deity and decree that her subjects ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,642 member
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  • Doctor Who - The Sensorites on DVD (1964)
    Starring: William Hartnell
    Director: Mervyn Pinfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 26 members
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  • This Sporting Life (1963)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Rachel Roberts,  Alan Badel
    Director: Lindsay Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Adapted from David Storey's novel of the same title, THIS SPORTING LIFE is a gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of Frank Machin. Richard Harris gives a remarkable performance as Machin, a proud man who wants to quit his job as a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,946 member
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  • Doctor Who - Lost In Time (3 discs) on DVD (1963)
    Starring: William Hartnell,  Patrick Troughton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A compilation of lost episodes from the television series of Doctor Who. Includes the episodes: 'The Daleks' Master Plan', The Moonbase', 'The Underwater Menace', 'The Wheel In Space' and 'The Abominable Snowman'.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,893 member
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  • Tomorrow At Ten on DVD (1962)
    Starring: John Gregson,  Robert Shaw,  Alan Wheatley
    Director: Lance Comfort
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A ruthless kidnapper and blackmailer called Marlowe has abducted a young boy. After imprisoning the child in a deserted house, Marlowe gives him a toy golly for comfort. But hidden inside the golly is time bomb which is set to explode at ten the following morning. A cracking thriller starring a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 191 members
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  • School for Scoundrels on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Irene Handl,  John Le Mesurier
    Director: John Boulting,  Robert Asher,  Mari
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The school for scoundrels is a college that teaches oneupmanship. Palfrey is the hapless new student who's unlucky in everything. Raymond Delauney is the already one-up cad who Palfrey must beat for affections of April.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,421 member
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  • Make Mine Mink on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Alastair Sim,  hattie Jacques
    Director: Robert Hamer,  Robert Asher,  John Boulting
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    When Dame Beatrice (Athene Syler) retires from charitable work, she finds her life rather empty. Suddenly an irresistible request to help unfortunate orphans comes along, and inspired by her maid's chequered past, takes on one final charitable challenge. An incident with a neighbours mink coat ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 585 members
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  • The Mouse That Roared on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Jean Seberg,  David Kossoff
    Director: Jack Arnold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,069 member
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  • Strictly Confidential on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Neil Hallett,  Richard Murdoch,  William Kendall
    Director: Charles Saunders
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    'Major' McQuarry (William Kendall) and 'Commander' Binham-Ryley (Richard Murdoch) are two con-men just released from prison who encounter Maxine Millard (Maya Koumani) a widow with a company to run. The comedy duo con their way into managing director positions, but little do they know that Maxine ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 36 members
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  • Carry On Sergeant on DVD (1958)
    Starring: William Hartnell,  Bob Monkhouse,  Eric Barker
    Director: Gerald Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This is the classic first CARRY ON film. Sergeant Grimshaw (William Hartnell) hopes to retire in a blaze of glory by winning the Star Squad prize with his final platoon. However, these recruits (Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, and other CARRY ON regulars) turn out to be a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,571 member
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  • The Naked Truth on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Alastair Sim,  Peter Sellers
    Director: Mario Zampi,  Robert Hamer,  John Boulting
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The greedy editor of a trashy scandal magazine is confronted by several of the individuals whose lives are erroneously and luridly described in the tabloid. Their attempts to stop the publication of articles concerning themselves lead to a series of amusing events.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 822 members
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  • Yangtse Incident on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Richard Todd,  William Hartnell,  Akim Tamiroff
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 125 members
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  • Footsteps In The Fog on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Stewart Granger,  Jean Simmons,  Bill Travers
    Director: Arthur Lubin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 190 members
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  • Brighton Rock on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Carol Marsh,  Hermione Baddeley
    Director: John Boulting
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In this vivid adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about the seedy British underworld, Richard Attenborough appears in top form as petty gangster Pinkie Brown. The manipulative thug rashly commits a murder and uses a waitress (Carol Marsh) to provide his alibi with unexpected consequences.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 6,031 members
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  • Brighton Rock - Blu-ray (1947)
    Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Carol Marsh,  Hermione Baddeley
    Director: John Boulting
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In this vivid adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about the seedy British underworld, Richard Attenborough appears in top form as petty gangster Pinkie Brown. The manipulative thug rashly commits a murder and uses a waitress (Carol Marsh) to provide his alibi with unexpected consequences.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 273 members
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  • The Way Ahead on DVD (1944)
    Starring: David Niven,  Stanley Holloway,  William Hartnell
    Director: Carol Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Boasting a script by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, The Way Ahead [1944] is a rousing version of a familiar WWII genre: an officer must hammer a small group of disparate characters into an effective fighting unit as quickly as possible. David Niven stars as tough-minded Lieutenant Jim Perry, who ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 759 members
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  • The Army Game - Vol. 2 (3 discs)
    Starring: Bill Fraser,  Alfie Bass,  William Hartnell
    Director: Eric Fawcett,  Gordon Flemyng
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The second of two volumes containing every episode remaining in the archives of the immensely popular army-based sitcom from the 1950s in which a group of conscripts are determined to dodge duty and have fun while they are serving out their time.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 73 members
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William Hartnell facts

5 most recent films

Doctor Who - The Three Doctors - 3.5 stars
Doctor Who - The War Machines - 3.5 stars
Doctor Who - The Ark - 4.0 stars
Doctor Who - The Space Museum / The Chase - 3.5 stars
Doctor Who - The Web Planet - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

School for Scoundrels - 4.0 stars
Yangtse Incident - 4.0 stars
Doctor Who - The Ark - 4.0 stars
Doctor Who - Time Meddler - 4.0 stars
Doctor Who - The Space Museum / The Chase - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Night We Dropped A Clanger - 1.5 stars
Strictly Confidential - 3.0 stars
Doctor Who - The Sensorites - 4.0 stars
And The Same To You - 3.0 stars
Doctor Who - The Web Planet - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

William Russell - 13 times - show films
Jacqueline Hill - 12 times - show films
hattie Jacques - 9 times - show films
John Le Mesurier - 8 times - show films
Francesca Annis - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Richard Martin - 12 times - show films
John Boulting - 11 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 9 times - show films
Robert Asher - 9 times - show films
Mari - 8 times - show films