Peter Davison
Known for acting · Born 13 April 1951 · 75 · Streatham, London, England, UK
193 credits
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
Doctor Who
1963
All Creatures Great and Small
1978
Law & Order: UK
2009
Doctor Who: Time Crash
2007
Black Beauty
1994
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Gentleman Jack
2019
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018
At Home with the Braithwaites
2000
The Name of the Rose
2019
The Last Detective
2003
Wuthering Heights
1998
Acting (192)
2026Frank and PercyFilm
2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)Film
2025Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The DaleksThe Fifth DoctorFilm
2024Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (5) (archive footage)Film
2024Kiss Me, KateThe GeneralFilm
2024Happy Mills: The Search for Agent ThornyThe Big Boss (Voice)Film
2023The GoldAssistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart · 5 episodes, Commissioner Gordon Stewart · 3 episodesSeries
2023Beyond ParadiseRichard Baxter · 3 episodesSeries
2023Tales of the TardisThe DoctorSeries
2023Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)Film
2023Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope MysteryDavidFilm
2023The Big Steam AdventureHimself · 4 episodesSeries
2022Remembers…Self · 2 episodesSeries
2022Peter Davison: Uncut!SelfFilm
2021Dream HorseLord AveryFilm
2021The LarkinsVicar · 13 episodesSeries
2021End of TermLeighFilm
2020LifeHenry Reynolds · 6 episodesSeries
2020The Big Night InSelfFilm
2020Between the CoversSelfSeries
2020The Doctors: The Peter Davison YearsSelf (archive footage)Film
2019Good OmensJobSeries
2019Gentleman JackWilliam Priestley · 8 episodesSeries
2019The Name of the RoseOld Adso / Narrator (voice) · 8 episodesSeries
2019Showman: The Life of John Nathan-TurnerHimselfFilm
2018PatrickAlan FrancisFilm
2018You, Me and HimTeacherFilm
2018Say My NameDetective Rich HerbigFilm
2018The Muppets Take The O2SelfFilm
2018Vintage RoadsHimself - Presenter · 3 episodesSeries
2018Doctor Who: Jovanka AirlinesSelfFilm
2018Peter Davison: In ConversationSelfFilm
2018EarthshockedFilm
2018Doctor Who: Behind the SofaSelf · 36 episodesSeries
2017LiarDenis Walters · 2 episodesSeries
2017Harry Hill's Alien Fun CapsuleSelfSeries
2016Sugar Free FarmSelf · 4 episodesSeries
2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)Film
2015GypsyHerbieFilm
2015Longleat '83: The Lost FootageFilm
2015Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the UniverseSelfFilm
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate CompanionSelf / The Doctor (archive footage)Film
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf - Presenter / The Fifth DoctorFilm
2013Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (5) (archive footage)Film
2013Toast of LondonPeter Davison · 3 episodesSeries
2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelfFilm
2013Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf · 11 episodesSeries
2013Doctor Who Live: The Next DoctorSelfFilm
2013Doctor Who Live: The AfterpartySelfFilm
2013Doctor Who at the PromsSelf - Special Guest AppearanceFilm
2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDISSelfFilm
2013Pat & CabbageMichael · 6 episodesSeries
2012The Timey-Wimey of Doctor WhoSelfFilm
2012The Women of Doctor WhoFilm
2012The Destinations of Doctor WhoSelfFilm
2012Tales of Television CentreSelfFilm
2011Death in ParadiseArnold FinchSeries
2011VeraMatthew WellsSeries
2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in TimeFilm
2011Come in Number FiveFilm
2011Driven to DistractationFilm
2011Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'Film
2010Chain ReactionFilm
2009Law & Order: UKHenry Sharpe · 27 episodesSeries
2009UnforgivenJohn Ingram · 3 episodesSeries
2009Micro MenBank managerFilm
2009The Queen · 5 episodesSeries
2008Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (5) (archive footage)Film
2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983Film
2008Trials and Tribulations(archive footage)Film
2008The Ties That Bind UsThe Fifth Doctor (archive footage)Film
2008Now, Get Out of ThatFilm
2008Five Doctors, One StudioFilm
2007LewisPeter FaulknerSeries
2007Doctor Who: Time CrashThe Doctor (5)Film
2007A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to WillesdenDC DaviesFilm
2007Fear, Stress & AngerMartin Chadwick · 6 episodesSeries
2007A New Body at LastFilm
2007The Crowded TARDISFilm
2007Dangerous LiaisonsDaviesFilm
2007Once Upon a Time on the WestwayDC DaviesFilm
2007The Man from MontevideoDC DaviesFilm
2007The Dead Peasants SocietyDC DaviesFilm
2006The Complete Guide to ParentingGeorge Huntley · 5 episodesSeries
2005Doctor Who Confidential · 9 episodesSeries
2005Distant ShoresBill Shore · 12 episodesSeries
2005Doctor Who: A New DimensionSelfFilm
2005Friends ReunitedDC DaviesFilm
2005Towpaths of GloryDC DaviesFilm
2005Three Steps to HendonDC DaviesFilm
2005Willesden ConfidentialDC DaviesFilm
2004Agatha Christie's MarpleHubert CurtainSeries
2004New TricksCharles AllenforthSeries
2004ChristineDangerous DaviesFilm
2004The Long Bank HolidayDangerous DaviesFilm
2004Benefit to MankindDC DaviesFilm
2004Dangerous and the Lonely HeartsDC DaviesFilm
2003The Last DetectiveDetective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies · 17 episodesSeries
2003HardwarePeter DavisonSeries
2003Too Good to Be TrueRobert LewisFilm
2003The Story of Doctor WhoFilm
2003TriciaDangerous DaviesFilm
2003The Last DetectiveDC DaviesFilm
2003Too Good to Be TrueRobert Lewis · 2 episodesSeries
2001Richard & JudySelfSeries
2001Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the GalaxyHimself (archive footage)Film
2001The Home WhovianFilm
2000At Home with the BraithwaitesDavid Braithwaite · 26 episodesSeries
2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything · 2 episodesSeries
1999Loose WomenSelfSeries
1999Parting ShotsJohnFilm
1999Hope and GloryNeil BruceSeries
1999It's Only TV But I Like ItSelfSeries
1999Adventures in Space and TimeHimselfFilm
1999The KidnappersHimselfFilm
1998Wuthering HeightsJoseph LockwoodFilm
1998The Mrs Bradley MysteriesInspector Christmas · 3 episodesSeries
1998The Stalker's ApprenticeD.I. Maurice BurtFilm
1998Dear NobodyMr. GartonFilm
1998VerdictMichael NaylorSeries
1997Midsomer MurdersNicky Frazer, Archie PollockSeries
1997Jonathan CreekStephen ClaithorneSeries
1997Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting UpFilm
1996PROBE: Ghosts of WinterborneGavin PurcellFilm
1996The Adventures of ToadMoleFilm
1996CutsHenry BabbacombeFilm
1995PROBE: The Devil of WinterborneGavin PurcellFilm
1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and BeyondFilm
1995The Adventures of MoleMoleFilm
1995Jeremy Hardy Gives Good SexFilm
1994Black BeautySquire GordonFilm
1994PROBE: The Zero ImperativePatient OneFilm
1994Mole's ChristmasMouseFilm
1994A Man You Don't Meet Every DayRobertFilm
1994Ain't Misbehavin'Clive Quigley · 12 episodesSeries
1994Stranger than FictionFilm
1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in TimeThe 5th DoctorFilm
1993The Airzone SolutionAl DunbarFilm
1993Harnessing PeacocksJim HuxtableFilm
1992A Very Polish PracticeStephen DakerFilm
1992Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early YearsSelf - HostFilm
1991Fiddlers ThreeRalph West · 14 episodesSeries
1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main EventFilm
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IIIFilm
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IIFilm
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes VFilm
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IVFilm
1989CampionAlbert Campion · 16 episodesSeries
1989Screen OneDr. Stephen DakerSeries
1987Going Live!SelfSeries
1986A Very Peculiar PracticeDr Stephen Daker · 14 episodesSeries
1986Who's WhoFilm
1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VIFilm
1985Miss Marple: A Pocketful of RyeLance Fortescue · 2 episodesSeries
1985An Audience with Billy ConnollySelf - Audience Member (uncredited)Film
1985Anna of the Five TownsHenry Mynors · 4 episodesSeries
1985Doctor Who's Who's WhoDoctor WhoSeries
1984Doctor Who: The Caves of AndrozaniThe DoctorFilm
1984Doctor Who: Resurrection of the DaleksThe DoctorFilm
1984Doctor Who: The AwakeningThe DoctorFilm
1984Doctor Who: FrontiosThe DoctorFilm
1984Doctor Who: Warriors of the DeepThe DoctorFilm
1984Miss MarpleLance FortescueSeries
1984Doctor Who: Planet of FireThe DoctorFilm
1983Doctor Who: The Five DoctorsThe Fifth DoctorFilm
1983Doctor Who: SnakedanceThe DoctorFilm
1983Doctor Who: Arc of InfinityThe DoctorFilm
1983Doctor Who: TerminusThe DoctorFilm
1983Doctor Who: Mawdryn UndeadThe DoctorFilm
1983Doctor Who: The King's DemonsThe DoctorFilm
1983Doctor Who: EnlightenmentThe DoctorFilm
1983Once Upon a Time LordSelfFilm
1982Doctor Who: EarthshockThe DoctorFilm
1982Doctor Who: CastrovalvaThe DoctorFilm
1982Doctor Who: The VisitationThe DoctorFilm
1982Doctor Who: Time-FlightThe DoctorFilm
1982Doctor Who: Black OrchidThe DoctorFilm
1982Doctor Who: KindaThe DoctorFilm
1982Doctor Who: Four to DoomsdayThe DoctorFilm
1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the GalaxyDish of the DayFilm
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDish of the DaySeries
1981Doctor Who: LogopolisThe DoctorFilm
1980Magnum, P.I.Ian MacKerras · 2 episodesSeries
1980Sink or SwimBrian Webber · 19 episodesSeries
1980Holding the FortRussell Milburn · 20 episodesSeries
1979Tales of the UnexpectedJeremy TylerSeries
1979Print-OutEdwin StylesFilm
1978All Creatures Great and SmallTristan Farnon · 68 episodesSeries
1978An Audience with...SelfSeries
1977Love for LydiaTom Holland · 13 episodesSeries
1973WarshipSeries
1963Doctor WhoThe Doctor · 73 episodesSeries
Directing (1)
2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootDirector, WriterFilm