David Bradley (English actor) in the final episode of the tenth series of "Doctor Who", "The Doctor Falls", Bradley returned to portray the First Doctor, having previously been portrayed by Hartnell, who originally played the character. He reprised this role in the 2017 Christmas special, "Twice Upon a Time". This makes him the third actor to play the role in the television programme, after William Hartnell and Richard Hurndall since the premiere of "Doctor Who" in 1963, and at the age of 75, he is the also the oldest actor to play the role of the Doctor. Bradley serves as the President of Second
The Doctor (Doctor Who) the regions" with a Scottish one, and so asked Tennant to affect the same accent he used for the earlier BBC period drama "Casanova". In contrast, Peter Capaldi was explicitly allowed to continue using his native Scottish accent as the Twelfth Doctor. In the Big Finish audio adventure "The Sirens of Time", the captain aboard a German U-boat assumes he is English because of the way he pronounces his words: "So, you speak German ... but you speak it like an English gentleman." The Doctor's clothing has been equally distinctive, from the distinguished Edwardian suits of the First Doctor to