Anneke Wills

Born: 1941-10-20

Anneke Wills is a British actress famous for playing Polly, the swinging sixties companion to the first and second Doctor in Doctor Who from 1966 to 1967. Other roles include Evelyn in the ITC drama The Strange Report (1969-1970) and guest appearances in The Avengers and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Film roles include Anne in Some People (1962) and Angela in The Pleasure Girls (1965). From 1962 to 1979 she was married to Michael Gough but has subsequently twice remarried. The father of her first child was Anthony Newley, who left her for Joan Collins. In 1970 Wills effectively gave up acting to be a full time mum. Following her divorce from Gough, she left the UK in 1980 and lived in various places in the 16 years afterwards, including in Laos, Vietnam and India in the early 1980s, in the USA from 1983–1986, and in Canada from 1986–1996. She returned to live in the UK in 1996 and is a popular figure on the Doctor Who convention circuit. She has returned sporadically to acting for Doctor Who themed productions and has published three volumes of her memoirs: Self Portrait (2007), Naked (2009), and In Focus (2012).


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The Go-Between

as (uncredited role)
Released: 1971-06-16

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on...

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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

as Polly (archive footage)
Released: 2017-12-25

As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to...

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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

as Herself
Released: 2013-11-23

With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison,...

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Lust in Space

as uncredited
Released: 1998-05-28

Doctor Who travelled with the most gorgeous girls in the Cosmos. But was there any Lust in...

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Some People

as Anne
Released: 1962-05-31

Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award...

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Child's Play

as Alice Nightingale
Released: 1954-10-01

A science-fiction film about children who manage to split the atom and thereby create a new form...

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The Story of Doctor Who

as uncredited
Released: 2003-12-30

Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.

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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

as Polly Wright (voice)
Released: 2023-11-13

The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed...

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Carnival of Monsters

as uncredited
Released: 1999-11-13

A look at the various monsters that have appeared in Doctor Who.

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet

as Polly
Released: 1966-10-29

The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986....

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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

as Polly
Released: 1967-04-01

When the Second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big...

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Doctor Who: The Moonbase

as Polly
Released: 1967-03-04

The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a...

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Doctor Who: The Smugglers

as Polly
Released: 1966-10-01

The TARDIS arrives on the coast of seventeenth century Cornwall — much to the astonishment of...

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Doctor Who: The Highlanders

as Polly
Released: 1967-01-07

The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor...

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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

as Polly
Released: 1967-05-13

The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a...

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The Pleasure Girls

as Angela
Released: 1965-05-01

When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and...

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Doctor Who: The War Machines

as Polly
Released: 1966-07-16

The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the First Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower....

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Remembering Deborah Watling

as Self
Released: 2018-03-26

Family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to Debbie Watling who played Victoria Waterfield,...

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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

as Polly
Released: 1966-11-05

Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth...

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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

as Polly
Released: 1967-02-04

The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and...

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Myth Makers 53: Patrick Troughton

as Herself
Released: 2002-03-22

Patrick Troughton was born and raised in North London. During a long and successful career he...

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Nothing But the Best

as Young Wife
Released: 1964-03-10

Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his...

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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

as Polly (voice)
Released: 2020-03-16

The Doctor and his friends Ben, Polly and Jamie arrive at Gatwick airport. They quickly stumble...

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Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell

as uncredited
Released: 1999-06-02

As the very first Doctor, William Hartnell created the character that made Doctor Who a success....

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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

as Polly (Voice)
Released: 2016-11-05

Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth...

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Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

as Self
Released: 1996-04-01

In January 1996 filming began on a new episode of Doctor Who set in San Francisco, but shot in...

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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

as Polly Wright (voice)
Released: 2019-03-25

The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were lost soon after the programme’s...

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The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years

as uncredited
Released: 2017-07-01

This is the definitive set of interviews with the team of actors who brought the Patrick...

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Doctor Who

as Polly Wright
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Doctor Who

as Polly
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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The Avengers

as Judy
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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Doctor Who

as Polly (archive footage)
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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The Saint

as Fran Roeding
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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The Likely Lads

as Judith Francis
First aired: 1964-12-16

The Likely Lads was a black and white British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian...

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Strange Report

as Evelyn McLean
First aired: 1969-09-21

Strange Report is a British television Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist,...

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