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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-04-13 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Streatham, London, England, UK

Peter Davison

Biography:

Peter Davison (born Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett; 13 April 1951) is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He became famous as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories. His subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort and Sink or Swim, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice, and Albert Campion in Campion. He also played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective, and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.

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Known For

Acting

2024

Kiss Me, Kate as The General
Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

2023

Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
The Gold as Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart
Beyond Paradise as Richard Baxter
Tales of the Tardis as The Doctor

2022

2021

End of Term as Leigh
Dream Horse as Lord Avery
The Larkins as Vicar

2020

The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years as Self (archive footage)
Life as Henry Reynolds

2019

Good Omens as Job
The Name of the Rose as Old Adso / Narrator (voice)
Gentleman Jack as William Priestley

2018

Patrick as Alan Francis
You, Me and Him as Teacher
Say My Name as Detective Rich Herbig
Vintage Roads as Himself - Presenter

2017

Liar as Denis Walters

2015

Gypsy as Herbie
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)

2014

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

2013

Doctor Who at the Proms as Self - Special Guest Appearance
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Pat & Cabbage as Michael
Toast of London as Peter Davison

2012

Call the Midwife as Mr. Percival

2011

Vera as Matthew Wells
Death in Paradise as Arnold Finch

2010

2009

Micro Men as Bank manager
Law & Order: UK as Henry Sharpe
Unforgiven as John Ingram

2008

Trials and Tribulations as (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us as The Fifth Doctor (archive footage)

2007

Doctor Who: Time Crash as The Doctor (5)
Fear, Stress & Anger as Martin Chadwick
Lewis as Peter Faulkner

2006

2005

Distant Shores as Bill Shore
Doctor Who as The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who as Self
Doctor Who as The Doctor

2004

Christine as Dangerous Davies
The Long Bank Holiday as Dangerous Davies
New Tricks as Charles Allenforth
Agatha Christie's Marple as Hubert Curtain

2003

Too Good to Be True as Robert Lewis
Tricia as Dangerous Davies
Hardware as Peter Davison
The Last Detective as Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies

2001

2000

At Home with the Braithwaites as David Braithwaite

1999

The Kidnappers as Himself
Hope and Glory as Neil Bruce
Loose Women as Self

1998

Wuthering Heights as Joseph Lockwood
Dear Nobody as Mr. Garton
The Stalker's Apprentice as D.I. Maurice Burt
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries as Inspector Christmas

1997

Jonathan Creek as Stephen Claithorne
Midsomer Murders as Nicky Frazer

1996

Ghosts of Winterborne as Gavin Purcell

1995

The Devil of Winterborne as Gavin Purcell

1994

Black Beauty as Squire Gordon
The Zero Imperative as Patient One
Ain't Misbehavin' as Clive Quigley

1993

Harnessing Peacocks as Jim Huxtable

1992

A Very Polish Practice as Stephen Daker

1991

Fiddlers Three as Ralph West

1990

1989

Campion as Albert Campion

1987

Going Live! as Self

1986

A Very Peculiar Practice as Dr. Stephen Daker

1985

An Audience with Billy Connolly as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Anna of the Five Towns as Henry Mynors

1984

Doctor Who: Frontios as The Doctor
Miss Marple as Lance Fortescue

1983

Doctor Who: Terminus as The Doctor

1982

Doctor Who: Kinda as The Doctor

1981

Doctor Who: Logopolis as The Doctor

1980

Magnum, P.I. as Ian MacKerras
Holding the Fort as Russell Milburn
Sink or Swim as Brian Webber

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Jeremy Tyler

1978

1977

Love for Lydia as Tom Holland

1973

1963

Doctor Who as The Doctor

Directing

2005

Doctor Who as Director

Writing

2005

Doctor Who as Screenplay