David Bradley (English actor) 2014 British Academy Television Awards), and the films "Hot Fuzz", "The World's End" and "". In 2012, he played Solomon in the episode of "Doctor Who" called "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". In 2013, Bradley portrayed William Hartnell in the "Doctor Who" docudrama "An Adventure in Space and Time". He returned to "Doctor Who" portraying the First Doctor in "The Doctor Falls" and the 2017 Christmas Special "Twice Upon a Time". He also portrayed William Hartnell's First Doctor in a series of audio stories released by Big Finish entitled "" starting in January 2018. Bradley was born in York, where he
Doctor Who (film) Peter Capaldi. Eccleston and Capaldi would go on to play the Ninth and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, respectively, in the revived series of "Doctor Who" which began in 2005. Eccleston turned down the offer to audition for the TV Movie because at the time he felt he was not yet an established enough actor and did not want to be associated with a "brand name" so early in his career. Capaldi declined because he felt it was unlikely that he would be given the part. Of those actors who originally auditioned for the role of the Doctor, a number