Peter Davison

ActorDirectorWriter Apr 13 (age 74) Streatham, London, England, UK 1963–2025 (62 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Doctor Who

Director

Film

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor

Film

Gentleman Jack

William Priestley

Film

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

Film

Black Beauty

Squire Gordon

Film

Patrick

Alan Francis

Filmography

Acting (192)

Movies (127)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.4

Destination: Daleks

2025

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks

2025

as The Fifth Doctor

Kiss Me, Kate

2024

as The General

3.5

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

7.2

Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny

2024

as The Big Boss (Voice)

Talking Doctor Who

2023

as Self / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

5.0

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

2023

as David

5.7

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor

2022

as The Doctor

Peter Davison: Uncut!

2022

as Self

Dream Horse

2021

as Lord Avery

7.0

End of Term

2021

as Leigh

The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years

2020

as Self (archive footage)

Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner

2019

as Himself

Patrick

as Alan Francis

Earthshocked

You, Me and Him

as Teacher

The Muppets Take The O2

2018

as Self

9.5

Say My Name

2018

as Detective Rich Herbig

7.2

Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines

2018

as Self

Peter Davison: In Conversation

2018

as Self

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

as The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)

8.0

Gypsy

2015

as Herbie

7.8

Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

2015

Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe

2015

as Self

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

2014

as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

8.1

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

2014

as Self - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013

as Self

5.0

Doctor Who at the Proms

2013

as Self - Special Guest Appearance

8.0

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

8.2

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

as Self

7.8

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

2013

as Self

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

2013

as Self

9.0

Tales of Television Centre

2012

as Self

8.0

The Women of Doctor Who

2012

10.0

The Destinations of Doctor Who

2012

as Self

The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who

2012

as Self

10.0

Driven to Distractation

2011

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

2011

8.0

Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'

Come in Number Five

Chain Reaction

Micro Men

as Bank manager

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

7.4

Five Doctors, One Studio

2008

Trials and Tribulations

2008

as (archive footage)

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as The Fifth Doctor (archive footage)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

Now, Get Out of That

2008

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden

2007

as DC Davies

Doctor Who: Time Crash

2007

as The Doctor (5)

7.7

The Crowded TARDIS

2007

The Man from Montevideo

2007

as DC Davies

A New Body at Last

2007

Once Upon a Time on the Westway

2007

as DC Davies

Dangerous Liaisons

2007

as Davies

The Dead Peasants Society

2007

as DC Davies

Friends Reunited

2005

as DC Davies

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005

as Self

Willesden Confidential

2005

as DC Davies

Towpaths of Glory

2005

as DC Davies

Three Steps to Hendon

2005

as DC Davies

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts

2004

as DC Davies

Christine

2004

as Dangerous Davies

6.0

Benefit to Mankind

2004

as DC Davies

The Long Bank Holiday

as Dangerous Davies

Tricia

as Dangerous Davies

The Last Detective

as DC Davies

Too Good to Be True

2003

as Robert Lewis

2.3

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

The Home Whovian

2001

Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

2001

as Himself (archive footage)

Adventures in Space and Time

1999

as Himself

Parting Shots

1999

as John

5.4

The Kidnappers

1999

as Himself

The Stalker's Apprentice

as D.I. Maurice Burt

Dear Nobody

as Mr. Garton

Wuthering Heights

as Joseph Lockwood

Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up

1997

The Adventures of Toad

1996

as Mole

PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne

1996

as Gavin Purcell

5.6

PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne

1995

as Gavin Purcell

8.8

The Adventures of Mole

1995

as Mole

6.0

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

Black Beauty

as Squire Gordon

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

as Patient One

Mole's Christmas

as Mouse

Stranger than Fiction

1994

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

as Robert

The Airzone Solution

as Al Dunbar

Harnessing Peacocks

as Jim Huxtable

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as The 5th Doctor

4.6

A Very Polish Practice

1992

as Stephen Daker

Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years

1992

as Self - Host

The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event

1991

The PanoptiCon Tapes V

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes II

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

1990

Who's Who

1986

The PanoptiCon Tapes VI

1986

An Audience with Billy Connolly

1985

as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

8.3

Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Frontios

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

as The Doctor

7.9

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

1984

as The Doctor

9.8

Doctor Who: Planet of Fire

1984

as The Doctor

6.0

Doctor Who: The Awakening

1984

as The Doctor

5.0

Doctor Who: Snakedance

1983

as The Doctor

4.3

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

1983

as The Doctor (5)

7.7

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Terminus

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

1983

as The Doctor

7.0

Doctor Who: Enlightenment

1983

as The Doctor

7.7

Doctor Who: The King's Demons

1983

as The Doctor

4.3

Once Upon a Time Lord

1983

as Self

Doctor Who: Castrovalva

1982

as The Doctor

7.8

Doctor Who: Earthshock

1982

as The Doctor

8.1

Doctor Who: Black Orchid

1982

as The Doctor

6.3

Doctor Who: The Visitation

1982

as The Doctor

7.5

Doctor Who: Time-Flight

1982

as The Doctor

5.5

Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Kinda

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Logopolis

1981

as The Doctor

7.0

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

1981

as Dish of the Day

7.2

Print-Out

1979

as Edwin Styles

Frank and Percy

Television (65)

The Gold

2023

as Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart

Beyond Paradise

as Richard Baxter

Tales of the Tardis

as The Doctor

The Big Steam Adventure

2023

as Himself

Remembers…

2022

as Self

Murder, They Hope

as David

The Larkins

as Vicar

Between the Covers

as Self

Life

as Henry Reynolds

Good Omens

as Job

Gentleman Jack

as William Priestley

The Name of the Rose

as Old Adso / Narrator (voice)

7.0

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

as Self

Vintage Roads

2018

as Himself - Presenter

7.0

Liar

2017

as Denis Walters

6.6

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

as Self

Toast of London

as Peter Davison

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013

as Self

6.4

Pat & Cabbage

2013

as Michael

Call the Midwife

as Mr. Percival

Death in Paradise

as Arnold Finch

Vera

as Matthew Wells

Law & Order: UK

as Henry Sharpe

The Queen

Unforgiven

as John Ingram

Lewis

as Peter Faulkner

Fear, Stress & Anger

as Martin Chadwick

The Complete Guide to Parenting

2006

as George Huntley

Doctor Who

2005

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.6

Doctor Who Confidential

Distant Shores

as Bill Shore

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Hubert Curtain

7.8

New Tricks

2004

as Charles Allenforth

7.3

The Last Detective

2003

as Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies

Hardware

as Peter Davison

Richard & Judy

as Self

At Home with the Braithwaites

2000

as David Braithwaite

6.4

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

2000

Loose Women

1999

as Self

3.2

It's Only TV But I Like It

as Self

Hope and Glory

as Neil Bruce

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

1998

as Inspector Christmas

Midsomer Murders

as Nicky Frazer

Jonathan Creek

as Stephen Claithorne

Ain't Misbehavin'

as Clive Quigley

Fiddlers Three

as Ralph West

Campion

as Albert Campion

Going Live!

as Self

A Very Peculiar Practice

1986

as Dr Stephen Daker

8.0

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

1985

as Lance Fortescue

7.1

Anna of the Five Towns

1985

as Henry Mynors

Doctor Who's Who's Who

1985

as Doctor Who

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

as Dish of the Day

Magnum, P.I.

as Ian MacKerras

Holding the Fort

as Russell Milburn

Sink or Swim

as Brian Webber

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Jeremy Tyler

6.7

All Creatures Great and Small

1978

as Tristan Farnon

7.7

All Creatures Great and Small

as Tristan Farnon

An Audience with...

as Self

Love for Lydia

as Tom Holland

Warship

The Tomorrow People

as Elmer

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Crew (4)

Movies (2)

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

Director

7.8

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

Writer

7.8

Television (2)

Doctor Who

Director

Doctor Who

Screenplay