Ages of Doctor Who actors while playing the role

HOW OLD WAS WHO? Each Doctor actor's age while playing the Time Lord WILLIAM HARTNELL January 1908-April 1975 PATRICK TROUGHTON March 1920-March 1987 JON PERTWEE July 1919-May 1996 TOM BAKER January 1934- PETER DAVISON April 1951- COLIN BAKER June 1943- SYLVESTER MCCOY August 1943- PAUL MCGANN November 1959- CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON February 1964- DAVID TENNANT April 1971- MATT SMITH October 1982- PETER CAPALDI April 1958- Average 40 across first 11 Doctors 10 20 30 50 60 70 years old Data and design: Paul Smith@Wonderful Books www.wonderfulbook.co.uk/data See lots more data visualisations based on Doctor Who Actors' ages (rounded down to the nearest quarter-year) when they started and finished recording their regular stints as the Doctor, and their ages as of September facts and figures in Time & Space Visualiser, available now from Amazon; ISBN 978-0957606203 2013 (or at time of death). Lit candle represents a birthday while they were playing the Doctor. 2013 Christmas Special assumed to be recording in September 2013