Sunday 27 May 2018

Doctor Who Vs. From Hell

The most recent cinematic depiction of
the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 was
this big-budget Hollywood thriller
directed by the Hughes brothers, and
released by Fox in 2001.
Based on the graphic novel series of the
same name by Alan Moore and Eddie
Campbell (originally published in Taboo
from 1989 to 1992, then issued in a
collected edition in 1999), the film also
presents the most widely known theory
behind the Jack the Ripper mystery -
the Royal conspiracy.
The cast was led by Johnny Depp and
Robbie Coltrane as real-life detectives,
Inspector Frederick Abberline (1843-
1929) and Sergeant George Godley
(1856-1941). Heather Graham
portrayed the final canonical victim, Mary Kelly (who actually survived
here), Ian Holm was royal doctor, Sir William Gull (who became a Ripper suspect in the 1970's), and Ian Richardson was Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927), the beleaguered Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
From Hell was shown again on the 5Star channel last night, and also
featured eighteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • Ian McNeice (Coroner Drudge) played Winston Churchill in Victory of the Daleks and The Wedding of River Song (a role reprised by Big Finish for The Churchill Years and Ravenous), and voiced Zeus for Immortal Beloved (2007), and Reginald Harcourt for Renaissance Man (2012)
  • Susan Lynch (Liz Stride) was Angstrom in The Ghost Monument
  • Lesley Sharp (Kate Eddowes) was Sky Silvestry in Midnight
  • Samantha Spiro (Martha Tabram) was Hazran in The Doctor Falls
  • Joanna Page (Ann Crook) was Queen Elizabeth I in The Day of the Doctor
  • Paul Rhys (Dr. Ferral) voiced Max Paul for The Scapegoat (2009)
  • Mark Dexter (Prince Eddy) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead 
  • David Schofield (McQueen) was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), and Nostradamus and Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011)
  • Sophia Myles (Victoria) was Reinette in The Girl in the Fireplace, and voiced Rania Chuma for Kill the Doctor! and The Age of Sutekh (both 2018)
  • Vincent Franklin (George Lusk) voiced Lord Stormblood for Doom Coalition 2 (2016)
  • Steve John Shepherd (Constable) voiced Simon Devlin for UNIT: Extinction (2015)
  • Donald Douglas (Director) was Vural in The Sontaran Experiment
  • John Owens (Governor) was Thorpe in The Daemons
  • Gary Powell (Constable) was Dev Ashton in 42
  • Anthony Parker (John Merrick, the Elephant Man) was a Millennium FX technician on The Family of BloodUtopiaThe Sound of DrumsLast of the Time LordsThe Rebel FleshThe Almost PeopleDinosaurs on a Spaceship and The Snowmen
  • Rupert Holliday Evans (Sailor) was Colonel Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky
  • James Greene (Governor) was the Abbott in The Bells of Saint John
  • sound mixer John Taylor was a boom operator on The Five Doctors

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