Oldest Doctor Who Cast Members

This is a list of tables of the oldest Doctor Who cast members in ordinal ranks.

The longest documented Doctor Who cast member lifespan is that of Arnold Yarrow (1920–2024), a man who lived to the age of 104 years and 236 days. The longest lifespan for a female Doctor Who cast member is that of Peggy Batchelor (1916–2020), who lived to the age of 103 years and 235 days.

The oldest living Doctor Who cast member is 100-year-old Laurie Webb, born 6 May 1924. The oldest living female Doctor Who cast member is 95-year-old Thelma Barlow, born 19 June 1929. (Technically though, the oldest living female associated with the franchise is 98-year-old Barbara Clegg (born 1 March 1926), who wrote Enlightenment.)

Oldest Doctor Who cast members ever

  Living

Rank	Name	Age	Date of Birth	Date of Death	Sex	Role(s)
1	Arnold Yarrow	104 years, 236 days	17 April 1920	9 December 2024	M	Bellal in Death to the Daleks (1974)
2	Peggy Batchelor	103 years, 235 days	26 November 1916	18 July 2020	F	The Kingmaker in Death Comes to Time (2001–2002)
3	Earl Cameron	102 years, 330 days	8 August 1917	3 July 2020	M	Glyn Williams in The Tenth Planet (1966)
4	Zohra Sehgal	102 years, 74 days	27 April 1912	10 July 2014	F	Attendant on Ping-Cho (uncredited) in Marco Polo (1964) Sheyrah in The Crusade (1965)
5	Olaf Pooley	101 years, 123 days	13 March 1914	14 July 2015	M	Professor Stahlman in Inferno (1970)
6	Eileen Winterton	100 years, 301 days	5 July 1903	1 May 2004	F	Slave (uncredited) in Day of the Daleks (1972) Peasant (uncredited) in State of Decay (1980)
7	Laurie Webb	100 years, 238 days	6 May 1924	Living	M	Mr. Ollis in The Three Doctors (1972–1973)
8	Donald Pelmear	100 years, 177 days	6 July 1924	Living	M	Professor Rubeish in The Time Warrior (1973–1974)
9	Lewis Alexander	100 years, 57 days	27 August 1910	23 October 2010	M	Senior Army Officer (uncredited) in The War Machines (1966)
10	William Russell	99 years, 197 days	19 November 1924	3 June 2024	M	Ian Chesterton in season 1 (1963–1964), season 2 (1964–1965), "The Power of the Doctor" (2022)
11	David Graham	99 years, 71 days	11 July 1925	20 September 2024	M	Dalek voices in The Daleks (1964), The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964), The Chase (1965), "Mission to the Unknown" (1965), The Daleks' Master Plan (1965–1966) Mechanoid voices in The Chase (1965) Charlie in The Gunfighters (1966) Kerensky in City of Death (1979)

Oldest living Doctor Who cast members

Rank	Name	Age	Birth date	Sex	Role(s)
1	Laurie Webb	100 years, 238 days	6 May 1924	M	Mr. Ollis in The Three Doctors (1972–1973)
2	Donald Pelmear	100 years, 177 days	6 July 1924	M	Professor Rubeish in The Time Warrior (1973–1974)
3	Peter Cellier	96 years, 171 days	12 July 1928	M	Andrews in Time-Flight (1982)
4	Raymond Llewellyn	96 years, 137 days	15 August 1928	M	Sapan in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
5	Michael Craig	95 years, 338 days	27 January 1929	M	Commodore Travers in Terror of the Vervoids (1986)
6	Thelma Barlow	95 years, 194 days	19 June 1929	F	Lady Thaw in "The Lazarus Experiment" (2007)
7	John Woodvine	95 years, 162 days	21 July 1929	F	The Marshal in The Armageddon Factor (1979)
8	Colin Jeavons	95 years, 71 days	20 October 1929	M	Damon in The Underwater Menace (1967) George Tracey in K-9 and Company (1981)
9	Roy Evans	94 years, 355 days	10 January 1930	M	Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965–1966) Bert in The Green Death (1973) Miner in The Monster of Peladon (1974)
10	Shirley Cooklin	94 years, 302 days	3 March 1930	F	Kaftan in The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)