Peter Purves

Actor 1955–2025 (70 year career)

6.7 avg rating

Highest Rated

The Native Hue of Resolution

2013 · as Self - Narrator (voice)

10.0

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

2024 · as Steven Taylor (voice)

8.0

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984 · as Steven Taylor (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.9

Known For

Film

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler

Steven Taylor

Film

Blue Peter

7.5 1958

Film

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Steven Taylor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

Steven Taylor

Film

The Office

Peter Purves

Film

Doctor Who: The Chase

Steven Taylor / Morton Dill

Film

Doctor Who

Steven

Film

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

Steven Taylor

Filmography

Acting (56)

Movies (30)

Doctor Who: The Savages

2025

as Steven Taylor (voice)

A Christmas Carol - A Filmed Radio Play Live on Stage

2025

as Charles Dickens

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

2024

as Steven Taylor (voice)

8.0

Talking Doctor Who

2023

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

Interlude on Totter's Lane

2023

as Steven (voice)

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

2021

as Steven (voice)

6.0

Behind the Sofa - Season 14

2020

The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years

2017

The Native Hue of Resolution

2013

as Self - Narrator (voice)

10.0

Boys! Boys! Boys!

2013

Remembering Douglas Camfield

2013

The End of the Line?

2011

Riverside Story

2011

as Self

Dennis Spooner: Wanna Write a Television Series?

2009

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as Steven Taylor (archive footage)

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

B.P. Confidential

1998

as Self

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

as Steven Taylor (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.9

Round Trip to Glasgow

1982

as Self

Robbie

1979

as Narrator

6.0

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

1966

as Steven Taylor

7.2

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

as Steven Taylor

Doctor Who: The Ark

as Steven Taylor

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

1966

as Steven Taylor

5.7

Doctor Who: The Savages

1966

as Steven Taylor

7.2

Doctor Who: The Chase

1965

as Steven Taylor / Morton Dill

6.9

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler

1965

as Steven Taylor

7.5

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

1965

as Steven Taylor

7.9

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers

as Steven Taylor

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

as Steven Taylor

Television (26)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as Steven Taylor

5.4

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

2021

as Steven

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

as Self

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

6.0

Let's Dance for Comic Relief

2009

as Self

6.7

That's What I Call Television

2007

as Self

Death By...

2003

as Self

Harry Hill's TV Burp

The Office

as Peter Purves

Fantasy World Cup

as Self

Ready, Steady, Cook

as Self - Guest

EastEnders

as Presenter

Surprise, Surprise

as Self

Bullseye

as Self - Presenter

Blue Peter Special Assignment

1973

Blue Peter Flies the World

1971

BBC Play of the Month

The World of Wooster

Doctor Who: Lost in Time

1965

as Steven

Theatre 625

as Private

Doctor Who

as Steven

Z-Cars

Blue Peter

Blue Peter

as Self - Guest

Dixon of Dock Green

as Brian

Babble