
Peter Davison
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
Doctor Who
Director
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Doctor Who
The Doctor
Gentleman Jack
William Priestley
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Black Beauty
Squire Gordon
Patrick
Alan Francis
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Filmography
Acting (192)
Movies (127)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Destination: Daleks
2025as The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks
2025as The Fifth Doctor
Kiss Me, Kate
2024as The General
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny
2024as The Big Boss (Voice)
Talking Doctor Who
2023as Self / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
2023as David
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
2022as The Doctor
Peter Davison: Uncut!
2022as Self
Dream Horse
2021as Lord Avery
End of Term
2021as Leigh
The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years
2020as Self (archive footage)
Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
2019as Himself
Patrick
2018as Alan Francis
Earthshocked
2018
You, Me and Him
2018as Teacher
The Muppets Take The O2
2018as Self
Say My Name
2018as Detective Rich Herbig
Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines
2018as Self
Peter Davison: In Conversation
2018as Self
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015as The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)
Gypsy
2015as Herbie
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2015
Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe
2015as Self
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2014as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014as Self - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013as Self
Doctor Who at the Proms
2013as Self - Special Guest Appearance
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013as Self
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
2013as Self
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013as Self
Tales of Television Centre
2012as Self
The Women of Doctor Who
2012
The Destinations of Doctor Who
2012as Self
The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who
2012as Self
Driven to Distractation
2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'
2011
Come in Number Five
2011
Chain Reaction
2010
Micro Men
2009as Bank manager
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Five Doctors, One Studio
2008
Trials and Tribulations
2008as (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
2008as 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
2007as DC Davies
Doctor Who: Time Crash
2007as The Doctor (5)
The Crowded TARDIS
2007
The Man from Montevideo
2007as DC Davies
A New Body at Last
2007
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007as DC Davies
Dangerous Liaisons
2007as Davies
The Dead Peasants Society
2007as DC Davies
Friends Reunited
2005as DC Davies
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005as Self
Willesden Confidential
2005as DC Davies
Towpaths of Glory
2005as DC Davies
Three Steps to Hendon
2005as DC Davies
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
2004as DC Davies
Christine
2004as Dangerous Davies
Benefit to Mankind
2004as DC Davies
The Long Bank Holiday
2004as Dangerous Davies
Tricia
2003as Dangerous Davies
The Last Detective
2003as DC Davies
Too Good to Be True
2003as Robert Lewis
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
The Home Whovian
2001
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
2001as Himself (archive footage)
Adventures in Space and Time
1999as Himself
Parting Shots
1999as John
The Kidnappers
1999as Himself
The Stalker's Apprentice
1998as D.I. Maurice Burt
Dear Nobody
1998as Mr. Garton
Wuthering Heights
1998as Joseph Lockwood
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
The Adventures of Toad
1996as Mole
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
1996as Gavin Purcell
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995as Gavin Purcell
The Adventures of Mole
1995as Mole
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
Black Beauty
1994as Squire Gordon
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994as Patient One
Mole's Christmas
1994as Mouse
Stranger than Fiction
1994
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994as Robert
The Airzone Solution
1993as Al Dunbar
Harnessing Peacocks
1993as Jim Huxtable
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993as The 5th Doctor
A Very Polish Practice
1992as Stephen Daker
Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years
1992as 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
1985as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
1984as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Frontios
1984as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984as The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
1984as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984as The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Awakening
1984as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Snakedance
1983as The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983as The Doctor (5)
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Terminus
1983as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
1983as The Doctor
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
1983as The Doctor
Once Upon a Time Lord
1983as Self
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
1982as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Earthshock
1982as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982as The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Visitation
1982as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
1982as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982as The Doctor
Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981as The Doctor
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981as Dish of the Day
Print-Out
1979as Edwin Styles
Frank and Percy
Television (65)
The Gold
2023as Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart
Beyond Paradise
2023as Richard Baxter
Tales of the Tardis
2023as The Doctor
The Big Steam Adventure
2023as Himself
Remembers…
2022as Self
Murder, They Hope
2021as David
The Larkins
2021as Vicar
Between the Covers
2020as Self
Life
2020as Henry Reynolds
Good Omens
2019as Job
Gentleman Jack
2019as William Priestley
The Name of the Rose
2019as Old Adso / Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018as Self
Vintage Roads
2018as Himself - Presenter
Liar
2017as Denis Walters
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2017as Self
Toast of London
2013as Peter Davison
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013as Self
Pat & Cabbage
2013as Michael
Call the Midwife
2012as Mr. Percival
Death in Paradise
2011as Arnold Finch
Vera
2011as Matthew Wells
Law & Order: UK
2009as Henry Sharpe
The Queen
2009
Unforgiven
2009as John Ingram
Lewis
2007as Peter Faulkner
Fear, Stress & Anger
2007as Martin Chadwick
The Complete Guide to Parenting
2006as George Huntley
Doctor Who
2005as The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Distant Shores
2005as Bill Shore
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004as Hubert Curtain
New Tricks
2004as Charles Allenforth
The Last Detective
2003as Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies
Hardware
2003as Peter Davison
Richard & Judy
2001as Self
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000as David Braithwaite
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Loose Women
1999as Self
It's Only TV But I Like It
1999as Self
Hope and Glory
1999as Neil Bruce
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998as Inspector Christmas
Midsomer Murders
1997as Nicky Frazer
Jonathan Creek
1997as Stephen Claithorne
Ain't Misbehavin'
1994as Clive Quigley
Fiddlers Three
1991as Ralph West
Campion
1989as Albert Campion
Going Live!
1987as Self
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986as Dr Stephen Daker
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985as Lance Fortescue
Anna of the Five Towns
1985as Henry Mynors
Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985as Doctor Who
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981as Dish of the Day
Magnum, P.I.
1980as Ian MacKerras
Holding the Fort
1980as Russell Milburn
Sink or Swim
1980as Brian Webber
Tales of the Unexpected
1979as Jeremy Tyler
All Creatures Great and Small
1978as Tristan Farnon
All Creatures Great and Small
1978as Tristan Farnon
An Audience with...
1978as Self
Love for Lydia
1977as Tom Holland
Warship
1973
The Tomorrow People
1973as Elmer
Doctor Who
1963as The Doctor
Doctor Who
1963as The Doctor
Crew (4)
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