A Doctor Who Actor Won An Oscar Two Decades Before He Became The Classic Sci

Like every actor who's played the two-hearted ageless god known across all of space and time as The Doctor, 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi injected the character with a personality reflective of his acting style to create a prickly but kind-hearted regeneration of the beloved Time Lord.

Although Capaldi was a new face to many American audiences, the Scottish actor already had a long filmography before moving into the TARDIS and had even won an Oscar for his appearance in the 1993 short film he wrote and directed, "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life." The strange, trippy 23-minute comedy-fantasy short film follows the titular surrealist author through the Christmas Eve writing journey behind "The Metamorphosis," the rather bleak 1915 novella about a salesman who wakes up transformed into a gia