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10 Famous Actors You Completely Forgot Were In Doctor Who

Not only is Doctor Who one of the most famous shows in the world, but it also offers a fun, fantasy experience unlike most other things on television. That must be why the series is able to attract such high calibre talent to appear in any capacity from a main role to a minor walk-on part. For instance, the late, great John Hurt jumped at the chance to play a one-off version of the Doctor in the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor."
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That’s right, Spider-Man has met the Doctor!

Before Hollywood beckoned and he donned Peter Parker’s red and blue tights in The Amazing Spider-Man movies, Andrew Garfield appeared in a two-part Doctor Who story back in 2007. He even got to face off against the Daleks.

In “Daleks In Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks,” the TARDIS lands in 1930s New York where Tennant’s Doctor meets Frank, a young handsome Texan played by Garfield who helps him foil a scheme by his old enemies to rebuild the Dalek race from underneath the newly-built Empire State Building.

Despite being a Brit, Garfield had the best American accent on show in the episode, proving himself capable of playing, say, a New Yorker teen in some Marvel superhero franchise…


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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'