Peter Davison
Actor · Director · WriterPeter 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.
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Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks
2025
The Fifth Doctor
Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny
2024
The Big Boss (Voice)
Kiss Me, Kate
2024
The General
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Talking Doctor Who
2023
Self / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
2023
David
Peter Davison: Uncut!
2022
Self
End of Term
2021
Leigh
Dream Horse
2021
Lord Avery
The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years
2020
Self (archive footage)
The Big Night In
2020
Self
Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
2019
Himself
Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines
2018
Self
Patrick
2018
Alan Francis
You, Me and Him
2018
Teacher
Peter Davison: In Conversation
2018
Self
- The Muppets Take The O2
The Muppets Take The O2
2018
Self
Say My Name
2018
Detective Rich Herbig
Earthshocked
2018
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2015
Gypsy
2015
Herbie
Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe
2015
Self
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
Self - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2014
Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
Self
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Self
Doctor Who at the Proms
2013
Self - Special Guest Appearance
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013
Self
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
2013
Self
- The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who
The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who
2012
Self
The Destinations of Doctor Who
2012
Self
- The Women of Doctor Who
The Women of Doctor Who
2012
Tales of Television Centre
2012
Self
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Come in Number Five
2011
Driven to Distractation
2011
Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'
2011
Chain Reaction
2010
Micro Men
2009
Bank manager
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008
Trials and Tribulations
2008
(archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
The Fifth Doctor (archive footage)
Now, Get Out of That
2008
- Five Doctors, One Studio
Five Doctors, One Studio
2008
Dangerous Liaisons
2007
Davies
Doctor Who: Time Crash
2007
The Doctor (5)
A New Body at Last
2007
The Crowded TARDIS
2007
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007
DC Davies
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
2007
DC Davies
The Man from Montevideo
2007
DC Davies
The Dead Peasants Society
2007
DC Davies
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
Self
Friends Reunited
2005
DC Davies
Towpaths of Glory
2005
DC Davies
Three Steps to Hendon
2005
DC Davies
Willesden Confidential
2005
DC Davies
Christine
2004
Dangerous Davies
The Long Bank Holiday
2004
Dangerous Davies
Benefit to Mankind
2004
DC Davies
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
2004
DC Davies
Too Good to Be True
2003
Robert Lewis
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Tricia
2003
Dangerous Davies
The Last Detective
2003
DC Davies
The Home Whovian
2001
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
2001
Himself (archive footage)
Parting Shots
1999
John
Adventures in Space and Time
1999
Himself
The Kidnappers
1999
Himself
Wuthering Heights
1998
Joseph Lockwood
Dear Nobody
1998
Mr. Garton
The Stalker's Apprentice
1998
D.I. Maurice Burt
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
1996
Gavin Purcell
The Adventures of Toad
1996
Mole
Cuts
1996
Henry Babbacombe
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995
Gavin Purcell
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
The Adventures of Mole
1995
Mole
Black Beauty
1994
Squire Gordon
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
Patient One
Mole's Christmas
1994
Mouse
Stranger than Fiction
1994
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
Robert
The Airzone Solution
1993
Al Dunbar
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993
The 5th Doctor
Harnessing Peacocks
1993
Jim Huxtable
A Very Polish Practice
1992
Stephen Daker
Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years
1992
Self - Host
The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1991
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990
Who's Who
1986
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986
An Audience with Billy Connolly
1985
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Awakening
1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Frontios
1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
1984
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
1983
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Snakedance
1983
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Terminus
1983
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
1983
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983
The Fifth Doctor
Once Upon a Time Lord
1983
Self
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
1982
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Visitation
1982
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
1982
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Earthshock
1982
The Doctor
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981
Dish of the Day
Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981
The Doctor
Print-Out
1979
Edwin Styles
- Frank and Percy
Frank and Percy
