William Hartnell was born on 8 January 1908, just south of St. Pancras station, in London. Allegedly claiming in press materials in the 1940s to be have a farmer who was a famer and then later a stockbroker, it turns out that he was born out of wedlock, as his biography Who's There? states. At age 16, he was adopted by Hugh Blaker, a well-known art connoiseeur, who helped him to get a job with Sir Frank Benson's Shakespearean Company. He started as a general dogsbody - call-boy, assistant st ...[Read Story]