Anneke Wills
Acting
1941-10-20 · Berkshire, England, UK
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).
Filmography
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
2023 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
2020 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019 · Movie
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018 · Series
Remembering Deborah Watling
2018 · Movie
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017 · Movie
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2017 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
2016 · Movie
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013 · Movie
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012 · Movie
The End of the Line?
2011 · Movie
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010 · Movie
Now, Get Out of That
2008 · Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
The Dalek Tapes
2006 · Movie
The Story of Doctor Who
2003 · Movie
Carnival of Monsters
1999 · Movie
Lust in Space
1998 · Movie
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996 · Movie
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984 · Movie
Strange Report
1969 · Series
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1967 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
1967 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1967 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
1967 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1966 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
1966 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Smugglers
1966 · Movie
Doctor Who: The War Machines
1966 · Movie
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
The Pleasure Girls
1965 · Movie
The Likely Lads
1964 · Series
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Series
Nothing But the Best
1964 · Movie
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
The Sentimental Agent
1963 · Series
The Saint
1962 · Series
Some People
1962 · Movie
Candidate for Murder
1962 · Movie
Winning Widows
1961 · Series
The Avengers
1961 · Series
The Light Fantastic
1960 · Movie
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
1960 · Series
No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
Child's Play
1954 · Movie