Sunday, April 18, 2021

Happy Birthday David Tennant!

Happy Birthday David Tennant!  He might be known as the Tenth Doctor, but David Tennant is an accomplished member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.  He started with As You Like It in 1996.  In 2004, Tennant played D.I. Peter Carlisle in the Blackpool series.  One of the interesting parts for Tennant was as the mysterious Barty Crouch Junior in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).  His long run as The Doctor begun in 2005 with the episode “The Parting of the Ways” and then he passed the Tardis torch in “The End of Time: Part Two” (2010).  He went to see a the wedding of a former Companion in The Sarah Jane Adventures.  In 2011, he starred along side Catherine Tate in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.  He voiced Huyang, a professor droid working for the Jedi, in episodes of the animated Clone Wars (2012) series.  Tennant voiced another robot, The Fugitoid, in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2015-2016) cartoon.  



A long running role was as D.I. Alec Hardy in Broadchurch which he worked on three seasons in 2013, 2015, and 2017.  He returned as The Doctor in “The Day of the Doctor” (2013).  Tennant voiced Spitelout in Dragons: Race to the Edge (2015-2018).  At about the same time, he starred as Kilgrave using his powers to control people including Jessica Jones (2015-2019).  Tennant voiced a classic Disney character, Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales, the cartoon that started in 2017 and continues today.  In 2018, he was Cale Erendreich in the crime film, Bad Samaritan.  Also that year, he began voicing Lord Commander in the animated Final Space series.  He started his podcast, “David Tennant Does a Podcast with…” early in 2019.  Then, he voiced Spitelout in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. (2019).  Also in 2019, Tennant was Crowley in the Good Omens series based on the book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. He voices Scrooge McDuck in the animated This Duckburg Life.  Happy Birthday David Tennant!  Allons-y! 

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