William Hartnell facts(you see where this is going):
- Shares his birthday with David Bowie and Elvis: WH (8JAN 19O8), DB (8JAN 1947), EP (8JAN 1935)
- Often known as Billy, he left school without prospects and dabbled in petty crime.
- Horses were his first love.
- Wore a wig when playing the part of the Doctor, as the character had long hair, whereas in private life he himself favoured the traditional short-back-and-sides.
- He suggested Patrick Troughton for number 2.
“I saw the Doctor as a kind of lama, one of those long-lived old boys out in Tibet who might be anything up to eight hundred years old but only look seventy-five.”
-William Hartnell-
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