Person

Peter Davison

Acting · Born 1951-04-13 · Streatham, London, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Davison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Filmography

2025Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The DaleksThe Fifth Doctor
2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (5) (archive footage)
2024Kiss Me, KateThe General
2024Happy Mills: The Search for Agent ThornyThe Big Boss (Voice)
2023Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope MysteryDavid
2023Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
2023Tales of the TardisThe Doctor
2023The Big Steam AdventureHimself
2023Beyond ParadiseRichard Baxter
2023The GoldAssistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart
2022Peter Davison: Uncut!Self
2022Remembers…Self
2021End of TermLeigh
2021The LarkinsVicar
2021Dream HorseLord Avery
2020Between the CoversSelf
2020LifeHenry Reynolds
2020The Big Night InSelf
2020The Doctors: The Peter Davison YearsSelf (archive footage)
2019Showman: The Life of John Nathan-TurnerHimself
2019Good OmensJob
2019Gentleman JackWilliam Priestley
2019The Name of the RoseOld Adso / Narrator (voice)
2018Peter Davison: In ConversationSelf
2018Earthshocked
2018Vintage RoadsHimself - Presenter
2018Say My NameDetective Rich Herbig
2018Doctor Who: Jovanka AirlinesSelf
2018The Muppets Take The O2Self
2018Doctor Who: Behind the SofaSelf
2018PatrickAlan Francis
2018You, Me and HimTeacher
2017LiarDenis Walters
2017Harry Hill's Alien Fun CapsuleSelf
2016Sugar Free FarmSelf
2015GypsyHerbie
2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)
2015Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the UniverseSelf
2015Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate CompanionSelf / The Doctor (archive footage)
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor
2013Doctor Who Live: The AfterpartySelf
2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf
2013Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (5) (archive footage)
2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDISSelf
2013Toast of LondonPeter Davison
2013Pat & CabbageMichael
2013Doctor Who at the PromsSelf - Special Guest Appearance
2013Doctor Who Live: The Next DoctorSelf
2013Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf
2012The Destinations of Doctor WhoSelf
2012The Timey-Wimey of Doctor WhoSelf
2012The Women of Doctor Who
2012Tales of Television CentreSelf
2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011Death in ParadiseArnold Finch
2011Driven to Distractation
2011VeraMatthew Wells
2011Come in Number Five
2011Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'
2010Chain Reaction
2009The Queen
2009Micro MenBank manager
2009Law & Order: UKHenry Sharpe
2009UnforgivenJohn Ingram
2008Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (5) (archive footage)
2008Trials and Tribulations(archive footage)
2008Now, Get Out of That
2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008The Ties That Bind UsThe Fifth Doctor (archive footage)
2008Five Doctors, One Studio
2007Doctor Who: Time CrashThe Doctor (5)
2007The Dead Peasants SocietyDC Davies
2007The Man from MontevideoDC Davies
2007A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to WillesdenDC Davies
2007Dangerous LiaisonsDavies
2007Once Upon a Time on the WestwayDC Davies
2007Fear, Stress & AngerMartin Chadwick
2007LewisPeter Faulkner
2007A New Body at Last
2007The Crowded TARDIS
2006The Complete Guide to ParentingGeorge Huntley
2005Willesden ConfidentialDC Davies
2005Three Steps to HendonDC Davies
2005Towpaths of GloryDC Davies
2005Friends ReunitedDC Davies
2005Doctor Who: A New DimensionSelf
2005Doctor Who Confidential
2005Distant ShoresBill Shore
2004Agatha Christie's MarpleHubert Curtain
2004Dangerous and the Lonely HeartsDC Davies
2004Benefit to MankindDC Davies
2004The Long Bank HolidayDangerous Davies
2004ChristineDangerous Davies
2004New TricksCharles Allenforth
2003The Story of Doctor Who
2003Too Good to Be TrueRobert Lewis
2003HardwarePeter Davison
2003TriciaDangerous Davies
2003The Last DetectiveDC Davies
2003The Last DetectiveDetective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies
2001Richard & JudySelf
2001Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the GalaxyHimself (archive footage)
2001The Home Whovian
2000At Home with the BraithwaitesDavid Braithwaite
2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
1999Adventures in Space and TimeHimself
1999The KidnappersHimself
1999Loose WomenSelf
1999Hope and GloryNeil Bruce
1999It's Only TV But I Like ItSelf
1999Parting ShotsJohn
1998Wuthering HeightsJoseph Lockwood
1998The Mrs Bradley MysteriesInspector Christmas
1998The Stalker's ApprenticeD.I. Maurice Burt
1998Dear NobodyMr. Garton
1997Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997Jonathan CreekStephen Claithorne
1997Midsomer MurdersNicky Frazer
1996PROBE: Ghosts of WinterborneGavin Purcell
1996The Adventures of ToadMole
1995The Adventures of MoleMole
1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995PROBE: The Devil of WinterborneGavin Purcell
1994Mole's ChristmasMouse
1994A Man You Don't Meet Every DayRobert
1994Black BeautySquire Gordon
1994Ain't Misbehavin'Clive Quigley
1994PROBE: The Zero ImperativePatient One
1994Stranger than Fiction
1993Harnessing PeacocksJim Huxtable
1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in TimeThe 5th Doctor
1993The Airzone SolutionAl Dunbar
1992A Very Polish PracticeStephen Daker
1992Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early YearsSelf - Host
1991Fiddlers ThreeRalph West
1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1989Screen OneDr. Stephen Daker
1989CampionAlbert Campion
1987Going Live!Self
1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986Who's Who
1986A Very Peculiar PracticeDr Stephen Daker
1985An Audience with Billy ConnollySelf - Audience Member (uncredited)
1985Miss Marple: A Pocketful of RyeLance Fortescue
1985Anna of the Five TownsHenry Mynors
1985Doctor Who's Who's WhoDoctor Who
1984Doctor Who: The Caves of AndrozaniThe Doctor
1984Doctor Who: Planet of FireThe Doctor
1984Doctor Who: Resurrection of the DaleksThe Doctor
1984Doctor Who: FrontiosThe Doctor
1984Doctor Who: The AwakeningThe Doctor
1984Doctor Who: Warriors of the DeepThe Doctor
1983Doctor Who: The Five DoctorsThe Fifth Doctor
1983Doctor Who: The King's DemonsThe Doctor
1983Doctor Who: EnlightenmentThe Doctor
1983Once Upon a Time LordSelf
1983Doctor Who: TerminusThe Doctor
1983Doctor Who: Mawdryn UndeadThe Doctor
1983Doctor Who: SnakedanceThe Doctor
1983Doctor Who: Arc of InfinityThe Doctor
1982Doctor Who: Time-FlightThe Doctor
1982Doctor Who: EarthshockThe Doctor
1982Doctor Who: Black OrchidThe Doctor
1982Doctor Who: The VisitationThe Doctor
1982Doctor Who: KindaThe Doctor
1982Doctor Who: Four to DoomsdayThe Doctor
1982Doctor Who: CastrovalvaThe Doctor
1981Doctor Who: LogopolisThe Doctor
1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the GalaxyDish of the Day
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDish of the Day
1980Magnum, P.I.Ian MacKerras
1980Sink or SwimBrian Webber
1980Holding the FortRussell Milburn
1979Print-OutEdwin Styles
1979Tales of the UnexpectedJeremy Tyler
1978All Creatures Great and SmallTristan Farnon
1978An Audience with...Self
1977Love for LydiaTom Holland
1973Warship
1963Doctor WhoThe Doctor
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