Published June 21, 2023, 2:20 p.m. by Naomi Charles
Batman, The Matrix, and more: Doctor Who's biggest stars have sneakily appeared in some of the most famous movies ever put to screen.
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now look we know that Karen Gillen has
gone on to Star and Guardians of the
Galaxy and Carrie Mulligan just won all
of the awards but what about those
Doctor Who stars that you didn't really
know were on the big screen and yet
bloody hell there they are with that in
mind I'm Sean Ferrick for who culture
and here are 10 Doctor Who stars you
didn't know were in huge movies
number 10 Arthur darville Robin Hood
Arthur darville brought life that
lovable lost puppy in human form Rory
Williams Rory ends up joining his bow
Amy on her travels tour at time and
space before a pesky Weeping Angel takes
them both out of the doctor's life
before joining the Doctor Who cast
darville had a number of interesting
roles in various film and TV projects he
appeared on British kids Staple in
2001 played Mick Gallagher in the 2010
biopic sex and drugs and rock and roll
and starred alongside Russell Crowe in
2010's Robin Hood okay starred as a
strong word directed by Ridley Scott
Robin Hood attempted to make the famous
Bowman cool again it didn't but
hopefully Ridley and Russell had a nice
time making it darvel turns up very
briefly as a groom in a set of stables
he's about two-thirds of the way down
the cast list on IMDb and has a single
line of dialogues that tells you all you
really need to know about his importance
to the story regardless at least he gets
to say he was in a really Scott movie
number nine Peter Capaldi Bean does it
get more British than a crossover
between Doctor Who and Mr B Rowan
Atkinson's bumbling comedy creation has
entertained generations of viewers while
rarely saying a word and became so
popular that he appeared in two feature
films starting with this one in 1997
being the ultimate Disaster Movie whisks
are a hapless hero after the United
States where he's charged with guarding
a Priceless painting inevitably being
the whole thing up and has to
replace the artwork before anyone can
notice he's ruined it even without
Atkinson the film has a fair bit of star
power to it legendary English actor John
Mills gave one of his final performances
a young Sandra Oh turns up as does the
owner of Cinema's greatest mustache Burt
Reynolds but of course the reason we're
all here is to discuss Peter Capaldi who
plays a character called Gareth at the
start of the movie kabali was an
established actor at this point so it's
rather odd to see him in such a nothing
role with barely any dialogue but on the
plus side he does Sports some rather
snazzy glasses here number eight Jenna
Coleman Captain America the First
Avenger before she was a companion but
after she was on Emmerdale Jenna Coleman
played a very small role in one of the
big film franchises of all time 2011's
Captain America the First Avenger is the
fifth installment in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe it's where we first
meet Captain Steve Rogers the human
piece of spaghetti who saves the world
after gets injected with a magic hockey
potion before he turns into a total
Beefcake Rogers accompanies his best
friend and definitely not secret lover
bulky Barnes to the futuristic World
Expo here Bucky has arranged a couple of
hot dates for the pair one of these
women is none other than the future
Clara Oswald she might not be in there
for very long but Coleman does get to
give us her best American accent with a
few lines of dialogue it's fine there
really isn't much evidence to judge it
on to be honest this was also her first
ever film role which is not too shabby
at all number 7. Matt Smith In Bruges
the phenomenal 2008 film in Rouge deals
with two Hitmen Colin Farrell and
Brendan Gleason hiding out in the
titular Belgian city after a job gone
wrong Farrell and Gleason are terrific
but a lot of the praise for this film
goes to Ray Fine's turn as The Psychotic
foul-mouthed mob boss Harry Waters Harry
serves as the main antagonist in the
picture eventually traveling into Bruce
to confront his Wayward employees he's
an absolutely fantastic character and we
almost learned even more about him in a
famous deleted scene the sequence in
question shows a young Waters taking
revenge for the death of Gleason's
character's wife he walks into a police
station confronts a corrupt cop and
decapitates him in one Fell Swoop also
he's played by Matt Smith Smith who
looks about 10 years old in the clip
embodies finds characters to a t
unfortunately his part was removed from
the final product number 6. Paul McGann
Empire of the Sun say what you like
about Chris chimnall but at least he
opened the door for more Paul McCann
appearances in Doctor Who going forward
despite not appearing in the show all
that much McGann had a long and fruitful
acting career outside of Doctor Who on
top of his outstanding performance in
the classic with nail and I and his
regrettable turn in lesbian Vampire
Killers McGann also made a very
understated appearance in Steven
Spielberg's 1987 movie Empire of the Sun
set in World War II the film stars
Christian Bale as a young boy living in
a prisoner of war camp under Japanese
rule it's part coming of Age part
military epic think of it as Saving
Private Ryan cross with E.T McGann plays
a soldier by the name of Lieutenant
price towards the end of the movie in
such a minor role that is very easy to
miss Empire of the Sun Also features a
young Ben Stiller so there's quite a lot
of star power here just waiting to break
out number five David Tennant How to
Train Your Dragon
David Tennant has been in a lot of stuff
as well as his time spent as the 10th
and 14th doctor tenant has been in the
Harry Potter franchise served as the
villain in Marvel's Jessica Jones and
voiced a cow alongside John Cena in the
kids movie Ferdinand sticking with
animated films let's look at the time he
was in the Smash Hit How to Train Your
Dragon for about 30 seconds spikelet
Jorgensen is the Viking Chief second in
command and father of hiccup's enemy
turned friend it's not loud he has maybe
three lines in the first film none in
the second and about three more in the
third that's the best use you could come
up with for David Tennant really to get
a larger fixture of Kenneth and Dragons
you need to go to the Animated Series
known as DreamWorks Dragons the spin-off
of the film series tenant reprises his
role as Spike load in over a dozen
episodes of the show adding some much
needed weight to his underdeveloped
character number 4 John Barrowman The
Untouchables we've talked about some
very minor Parts up to this point but
things are about to get even more
ridiculous 1987's The Untouchables tells
the story of famous law enforcement
agent Elliot Ness and his quest to bring
down Al Capone Ness is played by Kevin
Costner and Capone by Robert De Niro
there's also additional support from the
likes of Sean Connery and Andy Garcia as
well as a very brief appearance from the
future Captain Jack Harkness John
Barrowman isn't actually credited on the
movie instead we have to turn to his
autobiography anything goes for
confirmation of his role in a passage
talking about his early career Barrowman
writes about his experience as an extra
on the film my fuse seconds in frame
were as an uncredited extra in the scene
where Sean Connery is recruiting Andy
Garcia I'm on camera from the rear
standing in tight gray sweats with my
hands folded behind my back so Not only
was he not credited but his face doesn't
even appear in the movie fireman
describes this as a bot part which is a
very accurate way of putting it number
three tosin Cole Star Wars the Force
awakens the Star Wars sequel Trilogy
turned out quite mixed in the end but it
did get off to a fantastic start with
2015's the force awakens the Blockbuster
7th film in the Skywalker Saga in among
the Harrison Fords and Carrie Fishers
and the several other Giant names this
film attracted you might be able to spot
everyone's favorite Call of Duty playing
time traveler Ryan Sinclair actor Tolson
Cole has a minor role in the force
awakens as Lieutenant Bastian a fighter
pilot for the resistance who takes part
in the raid on Starkiller base he must
be a good pilot too as he survives the
battle and flies off into the sunset
this appearance came three years before
coal appeared in Doctor Who meaning he
was part of the Star Wars franchise long
before he joined the Tardis team number
two Joe Martin Batman Begins we still
really don't know what's going on with
Joe Martin's fugitive doctor will we
ever see her in the role again who knows
while we eagerly await that potential
return let's take a look at the time
Martin shared the screen with the Caped
Crusader in 2005 Christopher Nolan took
on the Hefty task of making Batman great
again he achieved this and then some
with the first installment of his fabled
Dark Knight trilogy Batman Begins
alongside names like Christian Bale
Michael Kane and Liam Neeson Martin
appears in the film as a prison officer
she accompanies Killian Murphy's
Jonathan crane as he visits Carmine
Falconi and looks completely bewildered
at how fast Falcone's mental health
deteriorates after spending literally
one minute with a sadistic doctor this
is easily Martin's biggest film credit
to date but after her time and Doctor
Who perhaps she'll appear in even more
movies going forward number one frima
adjuman The Matrix resurrections the
wonderful Martha Jones wasn't half put
through the ringer during a Time on
Doctor Who having to walk a dystopian
Earth that had fallen under the Master's
dastardly ruled but on the plus side
actress frema ajiman has fared much
better outside the show before Doctor
Who she did the rounds on the
predictable TV dramas the bill casualty
Silent Witness and the rest and after
Doctor Who she's been in Law and Order
UK The Carrie Diaries and Netflix's
sense8 it was this show that put her in
touch with the acclaimed director as The
wachowskis Who co-created and wrote the
whole thing so when Lana Wachowski was
directing the fourth installment of the
Matrix franchise she knew exactly who to
call when casting a small role ajiman
plays a character called Astra in the
movie one of Neo's fellow developers at
the game Studio where he works it's a
brief part but it's enough to notice
that she hasn't aged a day in the 11 and
years since her final Doctor Who
appearance are we sure she's not a Time
Lord it might not be a major role but
with Doctor Who Torchwood and now the
Matrix Agumon is collecting sci-fi
franchises like stanos collects Infinity
Stones that's everything for our list
today folks what did you think and more
importantly do you think we missed
anything let us know thanks again to
Jacob Simmons for this original list go
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