Doctor Who Vs. William Hartnell at the Cinema, Part 2

These two satirical film
comedies were vehicles for
Peter Sellers (1925-1980).
Based on Leonard Wibberley's novel, The Mouse That Roared
was released in the summer of
1959, and was a surprise box
office success in America.
Sellers played a trio of roles
here, and was joined by
William Hartnell (as Will

Buckley). A sequel, The Mouse

on the Moon, followed in 1963.

Heavens Above! (directed by 

prolific filmmakers John and Roy Boulting) opened in the spring of 1963. Hartnell played Major Fowler. Both productions (shown again on the Talking Pictures TV and Sony Movies channels this week) featured a total of twenty-one future Doctor Who cast alumni:

The Mouse That Roared

• Timothy Bateson (Roger) was Binro in The Ribos Operation
• Colin Gordon (Announcer here; Prime Minister in Heavens Above!) was the Commandant in The Faceless Ones 
• Fred Haggerty (Fenwickian) was a stuntman on (episode 2 of) The Time Meddler
• John Tatum (Admiral) was a Villager/Coven member in The Daemons
• Juba Kennerley (Maybury) was an Old Man in The Massacre (2)
• Tex Fuller (Fenwickian) was an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (3)

Heavens Above!

• Mark Eden (Despard) was reunited with Hartnell on Marco Polo
• Rodney Bewes (Milkman) was Sergeant Stein in Resurrection of the Daleks
• John Harvey (Wilson) was Professor Brett in The War Machines, and Officia in The Macra Terror
• George Curtis (Constable) and Arthur Howell (Man) both starred in The War Games, as Firing Squad Soldier (1) and Confederate Horse- man (3)
• Walter Henry (Doorman) was an Extra in The Myth Makers (2) and The Silurians (6), Primord in Inferno, and Brother in The Masque of Mandragora
• Gilbert Wynne (Engineer) was Thara in The Krotons
• Richard McNeff (Inspector) was Baker in The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• Rita Tobin Weske (Lady) was the Theatre Cleaner in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (3)
• Anthony Lang (Officer) was an Egyptian Slave in The Daleks' Master Plan, Extra in The Highlanders (1) and The Faceless Ones (1), Time Lord in The Three Doctors (1), and Kaled Councillor in Genesis of the Daleks
• Graham Tonbridge (Man) was Priest in The Massacre (3) and Journalist in The War Machines (1)
• Jim O'Brady, Fred Wood (Protestors), Maxwell Craig (Reporter), Pat Judge (Worker) and Reg Thomason (Technician) all appeared in the second Dalek film
• Richard Rodney Bennett was composer of The Aztecs too