This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.
Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603)[1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s[2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors".[3] Solomon Posen had collected a list of books with "a doctors as a principal figure" which he says resulted in a list of over 10,000 works as of 2005.[4]
Early cinematic and television representations of doctors typically characterized the practice of medicine as being "in safe (male) hands,"[5] with 90% of doctors on television through 1989 being male.[6]
Literature
Film
Television
A-B
C-D
E-F
G-L
M-Q
R-Y
1-9
Program | Fictional doctor | Actor |
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3 lbs | Dr. Thomas Flores Dr. Douglas Hanson Dr. Adrienne Holland Dr. Jonathan Seger | Armando Riesco Stanley Tucci Indira Varma Mark Feuerstein |
30 Rock | Dr. Leo Spaceman | Chris Parnell |
7th Heaven | Dr. Matt Camden Dr. Sarah Glass-Camden Dr. Hank Hastings Dr. Jonathan Sanders | Barry Watson Sarah Danielle Madison Ed Begley, Jr. Nick Zano |
Anime
Program | Fictional doctor | Voice actor |
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A Certain Magical Index | The Heaven Canceller | Cole Brown |
Black Butler | Madam Red | Lydia Mackay |
Black Jack | Black Jack | Kirk Thornton |
Fruits Basket | Dr. Hatori Sohma | Kent Williams |
Fullmetal Alchemist | Dr. Tim Marcoh | Brice Armstrong |
Full Moon o Sagashite | Dr. Keiichi Wakaoji | Gerrick Winston |
Monster | Dr. Kenzo Tenma | Liam O'Brien |
Neon Genesis Evangelion | Dr. Ritsuko Akagi | Sue Ulu |
One Piece | Dr. Tony Tony Chopper | Lisa Ortiz Brina Palencia |
Steamboy | Dr. Edward Steam Dr. Lloyd Steam | Alfred Molina Patrick Stewart |
Zoids | Dr. D | Dave Pettitt |
Children's television
Comics
Video games
Music
Internet
Web page/program | Fictional doctor | Creator(s) |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja | Dr. McNinja | Chris Hastings Kent Archer |
Childrens Hospital | Dr. Cat Black Dr. Brian Dr. Blake Downs Dr. Valerie Flame Dr. Ed Helms Dr. Owen Maestro Dr. Jason Mantzoukas Dr. Glenn Richie Dr. Nate Schacter Dr. Lola Spratt Dr. Max Von Sydow | Rob Corddry |
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | Dr. Horrible | Joss Whedon |
The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd | Dr. Floyd J. Floyd Jr. Dr. Floyd J. Floyd Sr. Dr. Grant Dr. Steve | Grant Baciocco Doug Price |
The Spoony Experiment | Dr. Insano | Noah Antwiler |
TikTok | T.J. “Pax” Hardy | T.J. “Pax” Hardy SnackpaxEpi, Lies.the.moon.tells |
"Time Cube" | "Dr." Gene Ray | Gene Ray |
References
- ↑ The doctor in history, literature, folk-lore, etc edited by William Andrews p.9
- ↑ "The Popular Science Monthly". 1884.
- ↑ Doctor and patient By Silas Weir Mitchell p.81
- ↑ Doctors in fiction: lessons from literature By Borys Surawicz, Beverly Jacobson
- ↑ Frames and fictions on television: the politics of identity within drama By Bruce Carson, Margaret Llewellyn-Jones p. 51
- ↑ The psychology of television John C. Condry p. 76
- ↑ Berts bravader, Rabén & Sjögren, 1991
- ↑ The Popular science monthly, Volume 26