Jon Pertwee

Actor Jul 7 (died age 76) Chelsea, London, England, UK 1938–2025 (87 year career)

6.6 avg rating

Biography

John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996) was an English actor, comedian, entertainer and cabaret performer. Born into a theatrical family, he served in the Royal Navy and the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War. In his early career he worked as a stage comedian, which included performing at the Glasgow Empire Theatre and sharing a bill with Max Wall and Jimmy James.

Known For

Film

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor

Film

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (3) (picture) (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

Film

The House That Dripped Blood

Paul Henderson (segment 4 "The Cloak")

Film

Carry On Screaming!

Dr. Fettle

Film

Carry On Cleo

Soothsayer

Film

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Crassus

Filmography

Acting (148)

Movies (124)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.4

Reach for the Stars: The Starwatch Story

2025

as Self (Archive)

10.0

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

7.2

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

2024

as The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

5.8

Jon, The Man Who Was Doctor Who

2023

as Self (Archive)

Talking Doctor Who

2023

as Self / The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

5.0

Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals

2023

as Self - archive

4.7

Jon Pertwee: Uncut!

2021

as Himself

Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

2021

0.5

Doctor Who and the Third Man

2019

Panopticon Genesis

2017

The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years

2017

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

as The Doctor (3) (picture) (uncredited)

8.0

Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

2015

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

8.2

A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

2013

as (archive footage)

Life on Earth

2011

as Self (archive footage)

My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen

2011

as Self (archive footage)

Devious

2009

as Third Doctor

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

as The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

7.4

Five Doctors, One Studio

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as The Third Doctor (archive footage)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

as (archival footage)

The Home Whovian

2001

Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

2001

as Himself (archive footage)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen

1995

as General Von Kramer

5.8

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

1995

7.0

Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

1995

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

1994

as Dr. Jeremiah O'Kane

7.0

Stranger than Fiction

1994

The Airzone Solution

1993

as Oliver Threthewey

4.9

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as The 3rd Doctor

4.6

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

as Himself

7.5

Police 5: The Master

1993

as The Doctor (archive footage)

Return to Devil's End

1993

as Self

8.0

Carry On Columbus

1992

as Duke of Costa Brava

3.8

Doctor Who: The Pertwee Years

1992

as Self - Host

Reverse the Polarity: A Day in the Life of Jon Pertwee

1992

The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event

1991

Doctor Who: The Troughton Years

1991

as Self - Presenter

The PanoptiCon Tapes V

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes II

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

1990

Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure

1989

as The Doctor

Starwatch

1988

as Commander Jason Havlin

Myth Runner

1987

as Himself

10.0

Who's Who

1986

The PanoptiCon Tapes VI

1986

McDonnell Douglas Information Systems

1986

as Narrator

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

as The Doctor (3) (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.9

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

1983

as The Doctor (3)

7.7

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

1983

as The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

7.0

The Boys in Blue

1982

as Coastguard

5.2

The Curious Case Of Santa Claus

1982

as Dr. Merryweather

The Best of the Adventures

1981

as Judd Blake (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.5

A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special

as Worzel Gummidge

The Water Babies

as Salmon

Four Against The Desert

1977

Adventures of a Private Eye

1977

as Judd Blake

4.0

No. 1 of the Secret Service

1977

as The Rev. Walter Braithwaite

3.6

Wombling Free

1977

as Womble Voices (voice)

9.5

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

1976

as The Doctor (3) (picture) (uncredited)

8.1

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

as Colonel

Doctor Who: Robot

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

1974

as The Doctor

5.3

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

1974

as The Doctor

7.4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

1974

as The Doctor

7.4

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

1974

as The Doctor

6.2

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1974

as The Doctor

6.8

Doctor Who: The Green Death

1973

as The Doctor

8.4

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

1973

as The Doctor

7.5

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

1973

as The Doctor

7.4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

1973

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

1973

as The Doctor

8.0

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

1972

as The Doctor

5.9

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

1972

as The Doctor

7.6

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

1972

as The Doctor

7.6

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

1972

as The Doctor

7.9

Doctor Who: The Mutants

1972

as The Doctor

7.5

The House That Dripped Blood

1971

as Paul Henderson (segment 4 "The Cloak")

6.4

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

1971

as The Doctor

7.5

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

1971

as The Doctor

6.8

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

1971

as The Doctor

7.8

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

1971

as The Doctor

7.5

Doctor Who: Colony in Space

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Inferno

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

1970

as The Doctor

8.7

Doctor Who and the Silurians

1970

as The Doctor

7.3

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

1970

as The Doctor

7.3

Under the Table You Must Go

1970

as Self

Up in the Air

1969

Carry On Screaming!

1966

as Dr. Fettle

6.5

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1966

as Crassus

6.0

You Must Be Joking

1965

as Storekeeper (Hare Factory)

5.2

Carry On Cowboy

1965

as Sheriff Albert Earp

6.3

Runaway Railway

1965

as Station Master

7.0

How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment

1965

as Adam

5.0

I've Gotta Horse

1965

as Costumier's Assistant

Carry On Cleo

as Soothsayer

Ladies Who Do

as Sidney Tait

Nearly a Nasty Accident

as Gen. Birkinshaw

Then and Now

Not a Hope in Hell

Just Joe

as Prendergast

The Ugly Duckling

1959

as Victor Jekyll

5.8

It's a Wonderful World

as Conductor

A Yank in Ermine

as Slowburn Jenks

The Gay Dog

as A Betting Man

Will Any Gentleman...?

as Charley Sterling

Mr. Drake's Duck

as Reuben

The Body Said No!

as Watchman

Murder at the Windmill

as Police Sergeant

Helter Skelter

as Headwaiter

Dear Mr. Prohack

as Plover

Miss Pilgrim's Progress

as Postman Perkins

Trouble in the Air

A Piece of Cake

as Mr. Short

William Comes to Town

1948

as Circus Superintendent

Dancing with Crime

1947

as Police Constable (uncredited)

5.9

Toad of Toad Hall

1946

as Judge

The Four Just Men

1939

as Rally campaigner (uncredited)

6.0

There Ain't No Justice

1939

as Young Man in Cafe (uncredited)

5.5

A Yank at Oxford

1938

as Minor Role (uncredited)

6.7

Television (24)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as The Doctor

5.4

Myth Makers

2015

as Himself

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013

as Self

6.4

Doctor Who

2005

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.6

Virtual Murder

1992

6.5

The Further Adventures of SuperTed

1989

6.0

On the Waterfront

1988

Worzel Gummidge Down Under

1987

as Worzel Gummidge

8.0

Doctor Who's Who's Who

1985

as Doctor Who

Surprise, Surprise

as Self

SuperTed

as Spotty

Wogan

as Self

The Paul Daniels Magic Show

as Self

Blankety Blank

Worzel Gummidge

as Worzel Gummidge

Worzel Gummidge

as Radio Announcer

Tell Me Another

as Guest

Whodunnit?

as Host

The Goodies

as Reverend Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn

A Slight Case Of...

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

as Doctor Who (uncredited)

7.9

The Avengers

1961

as Brigadier Whitehead

7.7

Ivanhoe

1958

as Peter the Peddler

6.3