Peter Davison
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Apr 13, 1951 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Streatham, London, England, UK
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 Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective, and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Davison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
| 2025 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The DaleksThe Fifth Doctor | |
| 2024 | Happy Mills: The Search for Agent ThornyThe Big Boss (Voice) | |
| 2024 | Kiss Me, KateThe General | |
| 2024 | Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (5) (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (5) (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope MysteryDavid | |
| 2023 | The GoldAssistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart | |
| 2023 | The Big Steam AdventureHimself | |
| 2023 | Beyond ParadiseRichard Baxter | |
| 2023 | Tales of the TardisThe Doctor | |
| 2023 | The GoldCommissioner Gordon Stewart | |
| 2022 | Peter Davison: Uncut!Self | |
| 2022 | Doctor Who: The Power of the DoctorThe Doctor | |
| 2022 | Remembers…Self | |
| 2021 | End of TermLeigh | |
| 2021 | Dream HorseLord Avery | |
| 2021 | The LarkinsVicar | |
| 2020 | The Doctors: The Peter Davison YearsSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | The Big Night InSelf | |
| 2020 | Between the CoversSelf | |
| 2020 | LifeHenry Reynolds | |
| 2019 | Showman: The Life of John Nathan-TurnerHimself | |
| 2019 | Good OmensJob | |
| 2019 | The Name of the RoseOld Adso / Narrator (voice) | |
| 2019 | Gentleman JackWilliam Priestley | |
| 2018 | Doctor Who: Jovanka AirlinesSelf | |
| 2018 | PatrickAlan Francis | |
| 2018 | You, Me and HimTeacher | |
| 2018 | Peter Davison: In ConversationSelf | |
| 2018 | The Muppets Take The O2Self | |
| 2018 | Say My NameDetective Rich Herbig | |
| 2018 | Earthshocked | |
| 2018 | Vintage RoadsHimself - Presenter | |
| 2018 | Doctor Who: Behind the SofaSelf | |
| 2017 | Harry Hill's Alien Fun CapsuleSelf | |
| 2017 | LiarDenis Walters | |
| 2015 | Longleat '83: The Lost Footage | |
| 2015 | GypsyHerbie | |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the UniverseSelf | |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited) | |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor | |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate CompanionSelf / The Doctor (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The AfterpartySelf | |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who at the PromsSelf - Special Guest Appearance | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (5) (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The Next DoctorSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDISSelf | |
| 2013 | Pat & CabbageMichael | |
| 2013 | Toast of LondonPeter Davison | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf | |
| 2012 | The Timey-Wimey of Doctor WhoSelf | |
| 2012 | The Destinations of Doctor WhoSelf | |
| 2012 | The Women of Doctor Who | |
| 2012 | Tales of Television CentreSelf | |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | |
| 2011 | Come in Number Five | |
| 2011 | Driven to Distractation | |
| 2011 | Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance' | |
| 2011 | VeraMatthew Wells | |
| 2011 | Death in ParadiseArnold Finch | |
| 2010 | Chain Reaction | |
| 2009 | Micro MenBank manager | |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UKHenry Sharpe | |
| 2009 | UnforgivenJohn Ingram | |
| 2009 | The Queen | |
| 2008 | Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 | |
| 2008 | Trials and Tribulations(archive footage) | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (5) (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind UsThe Fifth Doctor (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | Now, Get Out of That | |
| 2008 | Five Doctors, One Studio | |
| 2007 | Dangerous LiaisonsDavies | |
| 2007 | Doctor Who: Time CrashThe Doctor (5) | |
| 2007 | A New Body at Last | |
| 2007 | The Crowded TARDIS | |
| 2007 | Once Upon a Time on the WestwayDC Davies | |
| 2007 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to WillesdenDC Davies | |
| 2007 | The Man from MontevideoDC Davies | |
| 2007 | The Dead Peasants SocietyDC Davies | |
| 2007 | Fear, Stress & AngerMartin Chadwick | |
| 2007 | LewisPeter Faulkner | |
| 2006 | The Complete Guide to ParentingGeorge Huntley | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: A New DimensionSelf | |
| 2005 | Friends ReunitedDC Davies | |
| 2005 | Towpaths of GloryDC Davies | |
| 2005 | Three Steps to HendonDC Davies | |
| 2005 | Willesden ConfidentialDC Davies | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | |
| 2005 | Distant ShoresBill Shore | |
| 2004 | ChristineDangerous Davies | |
| 2004 | The Long Bank HolidayDangerous Davies | |
| 2004 | Benefit to MankindDC Davies | |
| 2004 | Dangerous and the Lonely HeartsDC Davies | |
| 2004 | New TricksCharles Allenforth | |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's MarpleHubert Curtain | |
| 2003 | Too Good to Be TrueRobert Lewis | |
| 2003 | The Story of Doctor Who | |
| 2003 | TriciaDangerous Davies | |
| 2003 | The Last DetectiveDC Davies | |
| 2003 | HardwarePeter Davison | |
| 2003 | The Last DetectiveDetective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies | |
| 2001 | The Home Whovian | |
| 2001 | Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the GalaxyHimself (archive footage) | |
| 2001 | Richard & JudySelf | |
| 2000 | At Home with the BraithwaitesDavid Braithwaite | |
| 2000 | The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything | |
| 1999 | Parting ShotsJohn | |
| 1999 | Adventures in Space and TimeHimself | |
| 1999 | The KidnappersHimself | |
| 1999 | Hope and GloryNeil Bruce | |
| 1999 | It's Only TV But I Like ItSelf | |
| 1999 | Loose WomenSelf | |
| 1998 | Wuthering HeightsJoseph Lockwood | |
| 1998 | Dear NobodyMr. Garton | |
| 1998 | The Stalker's ApprenticeD.I. Maurice Burt | |
| 1998 | The Mrs Bradley MysteriesInspector Christmas | |
| 1997 | Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up | |
| 1997 | Jonathan CreekStephen Claithorne | |
| 1997 | Midsomer MurdersNicky Frazer | |
| 1997 | Midsomer MurdersArchie Pollock | |
| 1996 | PROBE: Ghosts of WinterborneGavin Purcell | |
| 1996 | The Adventures of ToadMole | |
| 1995 | PROBE: The Devil of WinterborneGavin Purcell | |
| 1995 | The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond | |
| 1995 | The Adventures of MoleMole | |
| 1994 | Black BeautySquire Gordon | |
| 1994 | PROBE: The Zero ImperativePatient One | |
| 1994 | Mole's ChristmasMouse | |
| 1994 | Stranger than Fiction | |
| 1994 | A Man You Don't Meet Every DayRobert | |
| 1994 | Ain't Misbehavin'Clive Quigley | |
| 1993 | The Airzone SolutionAl Dunbar | |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Dimensions in TimeThe 5th Doctor | |
| 1993 | Harnessing PeacocksJim Huxtable | |
| 1992 | A Very Polish PracticeStephen Daker | |
| 1992 | Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early YearsSelf - Host | |
| 1991 | The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event | |
| 1991 | Fiddlers ThreeRalph West | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes II | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes III | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes V | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes IV | |
| 1989 | CampionAlbert Campion | |
| 1987 | Going Live!Self | |
| 1986 | Who's Who | |
| 1986 | The PanoptiCon Tapes VI | |
| 1986 | A Very Peculiar PracticeDr Stephen Daker | |
| 1985 | An Audience with Billy ConnollySelf - Audience Member (uncredited) | |
| 1985 | Anna of the Five TownsHenry Mynors | |
| 1985 | Miss Marple: A Pocketful of RyeLance Fortescue | |
| 1985 | Doctor Who's Who's WhoDoctor Who | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: Planet of FireThe Doctor | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: The Caves of AndrozaniThe Doctor | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: Resurrection of the DaleksThe Doctor | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: The AwakeningThe Doctor | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: FrontiosThe Doctor | |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: Warriors of the DeepThe Doctor | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: Arc of InfinityThe Doctor | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: The King's DemonsThe Doctor | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: Mawdryn UndeadThe Doctor | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: SnakedanceThe Doctor | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: TerminusThe Doctor | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: EnlightenmentThe Doctor | |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: The Five DoctorsThe Fifth Doctor | |
| 1983 | Once Upon a Time LordSelf | |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: CastrovalvaThe Doctor | |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: The VisitationThe Doctor | |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: Black OrchidThe Doctor | |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: Four to DoomsdayThe Doctor | |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: KindaThe Doctor | |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: Time-FlightThe Doctor | |
| 1982 | Doctor Who: EarthshockThe Doctor | |
| 1981 | The Hitch Hikers Guide to the GalaxyDish of the Day | |
| 1981 | Doctor Who: LogopolisThe Doctor | |
| 1981 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDish of the Day | |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I.Ian MacKerras | |
| 1980 | Holding the FortRussell Milburn | |
| 1980 | Sink or SwimBrian Webber | |
| 1979 | Print-OutEdwin Styles | |
| 1979 | Tales of the UnexpectedJeremy Tyler | |
| 1978 | All Creatures Great and SmallTristan Farnon | |
| 1978 | An Audience with...Self | |
| 1977 | Love for LydiaTom Holland | |
| 1973 | Warship | |
| 1963 | Doctor WhoThe Doctor | |
| - | Frank and Percy |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors RebootDirector |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors RebootWriter |