July 11th, 2013
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Who’s There? The Life & Career of William Hartnell
Who’s There? The Life & Career of William Hartnell
William Hartnell took the leading role in Doctor Who towards the end of a long acting career that was a successful as it was varied.
He played musical light comedy; he played a succession of mean crooks and bullying sergeant-majors; he played a time-travelling eccentric.
He appeared in more than 75 feature films, in countless stage performances and in several television programmes in addition to Doctor Who.
Jessica Carney’s closely researched biography of her grandfather includes stories from many of the hundreds of stars of stage and screen with whom he worked, among them Richard Attenborough, Verity Lambert, Bob Monkhouse, Carole Ann Ford, David Langton and Lindsay Anderson. Updated and available for the first time in over fifteen years, Jessica Carney’s biography is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the character that made him immortal – Doctor Who!
The hardback edition of ‘Who’s There’ will be released in September 2013
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Ross Campbell
January 2nd, 2014 - 11:08pmI recently bought a copy of Brighton Rock and Hartnell played Richard Attenborough’s sidekick, and I must say that Hartnell was absolutely sensational in the role and the film is easily in my top 5 favourite films of all time. So I would highly recommend for those whovians who have Hartnell as your favourite Doctor, to try and see Brighton Rock.
Johnny
July 15th, 2013 - 9:14amI have a first edition of the original version – quite interesting stuff over and above his work on “Doctor Who”.
Andy
July 11th, 2013 - 11:32pmA reprint in time for the anniversary… nice. Better cover then the first edition.
Ross Campbell
July 11th, 2013 - 9:43pmBilly was fantastic in very role he was in don’t you agree?
DOCTOR WHO ONE
July 11th, 2013 - 7:56pmSaw him recently on TV in the very first ‘Carry On’ film, 1958’s ‘Carry On Sergeant’ as Sergeant Grimshaw.
joshua 50th anniversay
July 11th, 2013 - 7:12pmI miss willam hartnell
Andrew
July 11th, 2013 - 6:11pmThat is genius, how its written by his granddaughter. Brilliant.
explosive cookie
July 11th, 2013 - 4:52pmI love how they names it Who’s there? and released it in the anniversary year! I think they should release it on the 23rd of November so it marks 50 years since we first saw him in the most important role of his life.
Trenzalore
July 11th, 2013 - 3:52pmIt looks good, it will be good to hear about him from a point of view of his relative, I think it’s better to have a relative rather than somebody who has studied him or watched him cos you find out more
Matt Smithy
July 11th, 2013 - 4:36pmyea, I have the Patrick Troughton biography by his son, and it’s VERY good!
matparks08
July 11th, 2013 - 1:50pmYou can never underestimate the contribution Hartnell made to making the series the success it has been for the last 50 years. A true legend
cool guy doctor
July 11th, 2013 - 6:36pmagree