
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
Doctor Who
Lethbridge-Stewart
Doppelgänger
Data Analyst
Incendiary
Archbishop of Canterbury
Endless Night
Second Auctioneer (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Sergeant
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
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Filmography
Acting (101)
Movies (68)
Doctor Who: Downtime
2025as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
2021as 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
2013as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
2013as (archive footage)
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
2011as Self (voice)
Incendiary
2008as Archbishop of Canterbury
Five Doctors, One Studio
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
2008as 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
2002as The Brigadier
Chronotrip
2002
Doctor at Sea
2002
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
2001
TravelWise
2000as Alistair Singleton
Lust in Space
1998as Time Judge / self
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
1997
Downtime
1995as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
UNIT Recruiting Film
1993as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993as The Brigadier
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993as Himself / Narrator
Return to Devil's End
1993as Self
Missing in Action
1993as Self - Narrator
Born Kicking
1992as Tim Ayling
The Corridor Sketch
1991as Sir Horace
Bullseye!
1990as Sir Hugh
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
Doctor Who: Battlefield
1989as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Wartime
1988as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
Myth Runner
1987as Himself
To Catch a King
1984as de Oliveira
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984as The Brigadier (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983as Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Robot
1975as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
1975as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1974as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974as French Intelligence Officer
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
1973as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Endless Night
1972as Second Auctioneer (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1972as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1972as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1971as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
1971as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Take a Girl Like You
1970as Panel Chairman
Doctor Who: Inferno
1970as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
1970as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doppelgänger
1969as Data Analyst
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
1968as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966as Sergeant
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
1965as Bret Vyon
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965as Husband
Television (33)
Tales of the Tardis
2023as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Myth Makers
2015as Himself
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007as Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Doctors
2000
Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
1999
Satellite City
1996
Then Churchill Said to Me
1993French Fields
1989as Marquis
Casualty
1986as Claude Devigny
Yes, Prime Minister
1986
The Bill
1984
Minder
1979as Raymond Wilkins
Shelley
1979
All Creatures Great and Small
1978as Paul Cotterell
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977as Bronzed Man
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971as Hutchinson Hatch
Jason King
1971
Doomwatch
1970as Phillip
The Main Chance
1969as James Harding
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
1969as Max
The Champions
1968as Doctor Farley
Callan
1967
The Informer
1966as Henry Leason
The Man in Room 17
1965as Gilles
Theatre 625
1964as Ned
Victoria Regina
1964as Tudor
Doctor Who
1963as Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who
1963as Col. Lethbridge-Stewart
The Saint
1962as Alain
The Avengers
1961as Gifford
No Hiding Place
1959
Armchair Theatre
1956as Alex
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