William Hartnell at the Cinema: Brighton Rock

Richard Attenborough (1923-

2014) and William Hartnell

(1908-1975) appeared

together in the original film
version of Graham Greene's 
Brighton Rock, shown on

Talking Pictures TV today.

Attenborough played Pinkie

Brown (a role he reprised from

the West End production of the
novel, staged in 1943), whilst
Hartnell was Dallow.
The thriller, made on location

in its Sussex setting in 1947,

was known in America as
Young Scarface - it was voted

fifteenth in the BFI's Top 100 British Films poll, then was revived in 2009

for New York's Film Forum.

Co-stars Nigel Stock, Alan Wheatley, and Bill Brandon also had future

Doctor Who roles, whilst a BBC radio treatment followed in 1997,

which starred Steven Mackintosh, Maurice Denham, and Kenneth

Cranham.

Released in 2011, the modern remake (co-produced by Studio Canal,

BBC Films and Kudos) featured John Hurt, Sam Riley, Andrea

Riseborough, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, and five other Doctor Who

cast connections:

• Nonso Anozie (Dallow) was Hydroflax in The Husbands of River Song
• Phil Davis (Spicer) was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for Big Finish's The Cannibalists (2009)
• Maurice Roeves (Inspector) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
• Adrian Schiller (Registrar) was Uncle in The Doctor's Wife, and voiced Zanith for Time Works (2006), and Maurice Le Bon for Fright Motif (2021)
• Steven Robertson (Crab) was Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood