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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-12-16 (95 years old)

Place of Birth

Cairo, Egypt

Nicholas Courtney

Biography:

William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an Egyptian-born British actor. He was best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Known For

Acting

2023

Tales of the Tardis as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

2021

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3 as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

2017

2013

2008

Incendiary as Archbishop of Canterbury
The Ties That Bind Us as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)

2007

The Sarah Jane Adventures as Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

2005

2003

2002

2001

2000

TravelWise as Alistair Singleton

1999

1998

Lust in Space as Time Judge / self

1997

1996

1995

Downtime as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

1993

30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself / Narrator
UNIT Recruiting Film as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
Missing in Action as Narrator

1992

Born Kicking as Tim Ayling

1991

The Corridor Sketch as Sir Horace

1990

Bullseye! as Sir Hugh

1989

Doctor Who: Battlefield as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
French Fields as Marquis

1988

Wartime as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

1987

Myth Runner as Himself

1986

Casualty as Claude Devigny

1985

1984

To Catch a King as de Oliveira
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as The Brigadier (archive footage) (uncredited)

1983

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors as Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

1981

Doctor Who: Logopolis as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)

1979

Minder as Raymond Wilkins

1978

1975

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Robot as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1974

Soft Beds, Hard Battles as French Intelligence Officer
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1973

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Green Death as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1972

Endless Night as Second Auctioneer (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Time Monster as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1971

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Dæmons as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Colony in Space as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Hutchinson Hatch

1970

Doctor Who: Inferno as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who and the Silurians as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Take a Girl Like You as Panel Chairman
Doomwatch as Phillip

1969

Doppelgänger as Data Analyst
The Main Chance as James Harding

1968

Doctor Who: The Invasion as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart
The Champions as Doctor Farley

1967

1966

1965

1964

1963

Doctor Who as Col. Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who as The Brigadier
Doctor Who as Tourist (uncredited)
Doctor Who as Bret Vyon
Doctor Who as Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart

1962

The Saint as Alain

1961

The Avengers as Gifford

1959