Nicholas Courtney

Actor Dec 16 (died age 81) Cairo, Egypt 1956–2025 (69 year career)

6.9 avg rating

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

Film

Doctor Who

Lethbridge-Stewart

Film

Doppelgänger

Data Analyst

Film

Incendiary

Archbishop of Canterbury

Film

Endless Night

Second Auctioneer (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart

Film

Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Film

The Brides of Fu Manchu

Sergeant

Film

Doctor Who: The Invasion

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Filmography

Acting (101)

Movies (68)

Doctor Who: Downtime

2025

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

2021

as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

Nick & Caroline: Uncut!

2021

The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years

2017

Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

2015

Doctor Who: Yellow Fever

2013

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

8.0

A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

2013

as (archive footage)

Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor

2011

as Self (voice)

Incendiary

2008

as Archbishop of Canterbury

5.4

Five Doctors, One Studio

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

Rogue Time Lords

2007

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

as The Brigadier

Chronotrip

Doctor at Sea

ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

2001

TravelWise

2000

as Alistair Singleton

Lust in Space

1998

as Time Judge / self

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

1998

9.0

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

1997

Downtime

1995

as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

5.2

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

1995

7.0

UNIT Recruiting Film

1993

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as The Brigadier

4.6

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

as Himself / Narrator

7.5

Return to Devil's End

1993

as Self

8.0

Missing in Action

1993

as Self - Narrator

Born Kicking

1992

as Tim Ayling

The Corridor Sketch

1991

as Sir Horace

Bullseye!

1990

as Sir Hugh

5.1

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

1990

Doctor Who: Battlefield

1989

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.2

Wartime

1988

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

Myth Runner

as Himself

To Catch a King

as de Oliveira

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

as The Brigadier (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.9

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

1983

as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

7.0

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

1983

as Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart

7.7

Doctor Who: Logopolis

1981

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)

7.0

Doctor Who: Robot

1975

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

6.8

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

1975

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

8.1

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

1974

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.4

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

1974

as French Intelligence Officer

4.3

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

1974

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.4

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1974

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

6.8

Doctor Who: The Green Death

1973

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

8.4

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

1973

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.4

Endless Night

1972

as Second Auctioneer (uncredited)

6.0

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

1972

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

5.9

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

1972

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.9

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

1971

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.5

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

1971

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

6.8

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

1971

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.8

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

1971

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.5

Doctor Who: Colony in Space

1971

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Take a Girl Like You

as Panel Chairman

Doctor Who: Inferno

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart

8.8

Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

1970

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

8.7

Doctor Who and the Silurians

1970

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.3

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

1970

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

7.3

Doppelgänger

1969

as Data Analyst

6.2

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

1968

as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart

7.7

Doctor Who: The Invasion

1968

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

8.9

The Brides of Fu Manchu

1966

as Sergeant

5.8

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

1965

as Bret Vyon

7.9

The End of Arthur's Marriage

1965

as Husband

4.8

Television (33)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

5.4

Myth Makers

2015

as Himself

The Sarah Jane Adventures

2007

as Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

7.1

Doctor Who Confidential

Doctors

Sir Bernard's Stately Homes

1999

6.3

Satellite City

1996

Then Churchill Said to Me

French Fields

as Marquis

Casualty

as Claude Devigny

Yes, Prime Minister

The Bill

Minder

as Raymond Wilkins

Shelley

All Creatures Great and Small

1978

as Paul Cotterell

7.7

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

1977

as Bronzed Man

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Hutchinson Hatch

Jason King

Doomwatch

as Phillip

The Main Chance

as James Harding

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

as Max

The Champions

as Doctor Farley

Callan

The Informer

as Henry Leason

The Man in Room 17

as Gilles

Theatre 625

as Ned

Victoria Regina

as Tudor

Doctor Who

1963

as Lethbridge-Stewart

7.9

Doctor Who

1963

as Col. Lethbridge-Stewart

The Saint

as Alain

The Avengers

as Gifford

No Hiding Place

Armchair Theatre

as Alex