 The list of actors who have played the Doctor is closer to fourteen  than seven; one actor played William Hartnell (qv)s robot double  and another played the Doctors hands in "The Celestial Toymaker".  Peter Cushing (qv) played the Doctor in the first two Doctor Who  movies. Also, Richard Hurndall (qv) played the First Doctor in  "The Five Doctors", long after William Hartnell (qv) had died.