Patrick Troughton

Actor Mar 25 (died age 67) Mill Hill, London, England, UK 1948–2025 (77 year career)

6.8 avg rating

Biography

Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, and playing the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972-1973, 1983 and 1985.

Known For

Film

The Omen

Father Brennan

Film

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Film

The Red Shoes

BBC Radio Announcer (voice)

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor

Film

Jason and the Argonauts

Phineas

Film

Hamlet

Player King

Film

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (180)

Movies (103)

Lights Out

2025

as The 2nd Doctor

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.4

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

7.2

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

2024

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

5.8

Talking Doctor Who

2023

as Self / The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

5.0

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

2023

as The Doctor (voice)

1.0

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

2022

as The Doctor (voice)

Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'

2022

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

2021

as The Doctor (voice)

10.0

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

2021

as The Doctor (voice)

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

2020

as The Doctor (voice)

7.0

The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition

2020

as Doctor Who

7.0

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

2019

as The Doctor (voice)

7.5

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

2017

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

8.0

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

2016

as The Doctor (Voice)

7.5

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

as The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)

8.0

Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

2015

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

8.2

Devious

2009

as Second Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

7.4

Five Doctors, One Studio

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as The Second Doctor (archive footage)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

as (archival footage)

Patrick Troughton in America

2003

as Self (archive footage)

Adventures in Time and Spain

2003

as (archvie footage)

Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

2001

as Himself (archive footage)

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

as Himself (archive footage)

7.5

Long Term Memory

1985

as Gerald

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

as The Doctor

Amy

as Lord Rothermere

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.9

Reluctant Chickens

1983

as Malcolm

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

1983

as The Doctor (2)

7.7

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

1983

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

7.0

The Pigman's Protege

1982

as William Pierce

Doctor Who: Earthshock

1982

as The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

8.1

John Diamond

1981

as Joseph K'Nee

P.Q. 17

1981

as Commodore Londonderry

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

1981

as The Swindler

No Defence

1980

as Judge Barnes-Ritchie

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

1978

as Clement Attlee

10.0

A Hitch in Time

1978

as Professor Wagstaff

5.6

Treasure Island

1977

as Israel Hands

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

1977

as Melanthius

6.5

The Sinking of the HMS Victoria

1977

as Rear Admiral Markham

The Omen

1976

as Father Brennan

7.4

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

1976

as The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)

8.1

Love Letters on Blue Paper

1976

as Victor Marsden

Nurse Will Make It Better

1975

as Lyall

7.0

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

1974

as Bodysnatcher

6.1

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

1973

as The Doctor

7.4

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

1972

as The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)

7.9

The Chopper

1971

as Jimmy Reed

Scars of Dracula

1970

as Klove

6.0

Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It

1970

as Mr. Fidler

Doctor Who: The War Games

1969

as The Doctor

9.7

Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

1969

as The Doctor

5.2

Doctor Who: The Krotons

1969

as The Doctor

6.6

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

1969

as The Doctor

8.5

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

1968

as The Doctor

8.7

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

1968

as The Doctor

7.7

Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

1968

as The Doctor

5.8

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

1968

as Dr. Who/Salamander

7.9

Doctor Who: The Dominators

1968

as The Doctor

5.2

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

1968

as The Doctor

8.1

Doctor Who: The Invasion

1968

as The Doctor

9.1

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

as The Doctor

The Viking Queen

as Tristram

Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen

1967

as The Doctor

8.0

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

1967

as The Doctor

7.8

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

1967

as The Doctor

8.3

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

1967

as The Doctor

5.0

Doctor Who: The Moonbase

1967

as The Doctor

7.3

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

1967

as The Doctor

8.0

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

1967

as The Doctor

7.7

Doctor Who: The Highlanders

1967

as The Doctor

6.4

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet

1966

as The Doctor (2) (uncredited)

8.0

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

1966

as Dr. Who

8.1

And Did Those Feet ?

1965

as Lord Fountain

Give the Clown His Supper

1965

as Stuart

The Gorgon

as Inspector Kanof

The Black Torment

as Regis

Jason and the Argonauts

1963

as Phineas

7.2

The Phantom of the Opera

as The Rat Catcher

Wuthering Heights

as Hindley

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

1961

as Narrator (voice)

The Moonraker

1958

as Captain Wilcox

6.8

Ordeal by Fire

1957

as La Hire

1984

1956

as Man on Telescreen (uncredited)

Richard III

as Tyrell

The Black Knight

as King Mark

The Franchise Affair

as Bill Brough

White Corridors

as Sailor

Treasure Island

as Roach

Waterfront

as Sam (uncredited)

Chance of a Lifetime

as Kettle

The Woman with No Name

1950

as Colin

6.0

Cardboard Cavalier

1949

as Executed Man (uncredited)

5.7

Badger's Green

1949

as Jim Carter

The Red Shoes

1948

as BBC Radio Announcer (voice)

Hamlet

as Player King

Escape

as Jim

R.U.R.

as Radius, a robot

Television (77)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as The Doctor

5.4

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

2021

as The Doctor (voice)

8.0

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013

as Self

6.4

Doctor Who

2005

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.6

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

Inspector Morse

as George Jackson

Knights of God

as Arthur

Yesterday's Dreams

as Jack

Doctor Who Then & Now

1987

as Doctor Who

The Two of Us

1986

as Perce

5.8

Super Gran

1985

as Great Sporran of the Isles

The Box of Delights

as Cole Hawlings

Shine on Harvey Moon

as Wilf

Foxy Lady

Minder

as Joe Mancini

Only When I Laugh

as Joe Perkins

All Creatures Great and Small

1978

as Roddy

7.7

Edward and Mrs Simpson

1978

as Clement Atlee

6.2

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Rear Admiral Markham

7.0

The Feathered Serpent

as Nasca

Yanks Go Home

Lorna Doone

The Sweeney

as Reg Crofts

Angels

Space: 1999

as Archon

Survivors

as John Millen

The Love School

as Frederick Stephens

Playhouse

as William Pierce

Churchill's People

as Hainault

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Thriller

as Lyall

Whoops Baghdad

as Tamberlane the Terrible

Warship

Crown Court

Van der Valk

as Father Bosch

The Protectors

as Bela Karoleon

Colditz

as Padre

The Persuaders!

as Count Marceau

Jason King

Play for Today

as Victor Marsden

Doomwatch

as Lyon McArthur / Alan McArthur

6.0

The Goodies

1970

as Dr. Petal

7.5

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

as Duke of Norfolk

On the House

as Doctor Stanley

Little Women

as Robert March

The Main Chance

as Frederick Owen

Paul Temple

Softly, Softly

David Copperfield

as Pawnbroker

The Liars

as Pipe Smoker

Out of the Unknown

1965

as Jimmy Reed

7.0

Doctor Who: Lost in Time

1965

as The Doctor

The Wednesday Play

Sherlock Holmes

HMS Paradise

as Captain Ahab Rudlow

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

as Doctor Who

Z-Cars

The Saint

as Insp. Gambetti

Compact

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Man of the World

as Thiboeuf

The Old Curiosity Shop

Sir Francis Drake

as Gazio

Sunday-Night Play

as Narrator (voice)

Danger Man

Maigret

No Hiding Place

The Third Man

as Luigi Carvossa

Interpol Calling

as Sukru

International Detective

1959

as Silversmith

7.0

The Adventures of William Tell

1958

as Hanzler

6.3

The Count of Monte Cristo

1956

4.4

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1955

as Constable

6.3

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

1955

as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

Robin Hood

Sunday Night Theatre

as Cardinal Wolsey