Peter Davison

Born

April 13, 1951 (74 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Streatham, London, England, UK

Peter Davison (born Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett) 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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Known For

8.0

Black Beauty

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.7

2025

Doctor Who at the Proms

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

7.0

2024

Kiss Me, Kate

The General

0.0

2024

Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny

The Big Boss (Voice)

0.0

2024

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

David

5.7

2023

Talking Doctor Who

Self / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

5.0

2023

Tales of the Tardis

The Doctor · (1 episode)

4.4

2023

The Big Steam Adventure

Himself · (4 episodes)

0.0

2023

Beyond Paradise

Richard Baxter · (3 episodes)

6.6

2023

The Gold

Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart · (11 episodes)

7.3

2023

Peter Davison: Uncut!

Self

0.0

2022

End of Term

Leigh

0.0

2021

The Larkins

Vicar · (13 episodes)

6.4

2021

Dream Horse

Lord Avery

7.0

2021

Between the Covers

Self · (1 episode)

5.5

2020

Life

Henry Reynolds · (6 episodes)

7.4

2020

The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years

Self (archive footage)

0.0

2020

Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner

Himself

0.0

2019

Good Omens

Job · (1 episode)

8.0

2019

Gentleman Jack

William Priestley · (8 episodes)

7.8

2019

The Name of the Rose

Old Adso / Narrator (voice) · (8 episodes)

7.0

2019

Peter Davison in Conversation

Self

0.0

2018

Earthshocked

0.0

2018

Vintage Roads

Himself - Presenter · (3 episodes)

7.0

2018

Say My Name

Detective Rich Herbig

7.2

2018

Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines

Self

0.0

2018

The Muppets Take The O2

Self

9.5

2018

Patrick

Alan Francis

6.7

2018

You, Me and Him

Teacher

5.7

2018

Liar

Denis Walters · (2 episodes)

6.6

2017

Classic Doctor Who Comic-Con Panel

Self

0.0

2017

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

Self · (1 episode)

8.0

2017

Gypsy

Herbie

7.8

2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)

8.0

2015

Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe

Self

0.0

2015

Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

0.0

2015

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

8.1

2014

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

Self - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor

0.0

2014

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

Self

9.0

2013

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Self

7.9

2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

8.2

2013

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

Self

0.0

2013

Toast of London

Peter Davison · (3 episodes)

7.5

2013

Pat & Cabbage

Michael · (6 episodes)

0.0

2013

Doctor Who at the Proms

Self - Special Guest Appearance

8.0

2013

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

Self

5.0

2013

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

Self · (11 episodes)

6.4

2013

The Destinations of Doctor Who

Self

0.0

2012

The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who

Self

0.0

2012

The Women of Doctor Who

10.0

2012

Tales of Television Centre

Self

8.0

2012

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

8.0

2011

Death in Paradise

Arnold Finch · (1 episode)

7.5

2011

Driven to Distractation

0.0

2011

Vera

Matthew Wells · (1 episode)

7.5

2011

Come in Number Five

0.0

2011

Chain Reaction

0.0

2010

The Queen

(5 episodes)

7.0

2009

Micro Men

Bank manager

7.1

2009

Law & Order: UK

Henry Sharpe · (27 episodes)

7.0

2009

Unforgiven

John Ingram · (3 episodes)

7.3

2009

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

7.4

2008

Trials and Tribulations

(archive footage)

0.0

2008

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

0.0

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

The Fifth Doctor (archive footage)

0.0

2008

Doctor Who: Time Crash

The Doctor (5)

7.7

2007

The Dead Peasants Society

DC Davies

0.0

2007

The Man from Montevideo

DC Davies

0.0

2007

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden

DC Davies

0.0

2007

Dangerous Liaisons

Davies

0.0

2007

Once Upon a Time on the Westway

DC Davies

0.0

2007

Fear, Stress & Anger

Martin Chadwick · (6 episodes)

7.0

2007

Lewis

Peter Faulkner · (2 episodes)

7.6

2007

A New Body at Last

0.0

2007

The Crowded TARDIS

0.0

2007

The Complete Guide to Parenting

George Huntley · (5 episodes)

0.0

2006

Willesden Confidential

DC Davies

0.0

2005

Three Steps to Hendon

DC Davies

0.0

2005

Towpaths of Glory

DC Davies

0.0

2005

Friends Reunited

DC Davies

0.0

2005

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

Self

0.0

2005

Doctor Who Confidential

(9 episodes)

8.1

2005

Distant Shores

Bill Shore · (12 episodes)

6.5

2005

Agatha Christie's Marple

Hubert Curtain · (1 episode)

7.7

2004

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts

DC Davies

0.0

2004

Benefit to Mankind

DC Davies

0.0

2004

The Long Bank Holiday

Dangerous Davies

8.0

2004

Christine

Dangerous Davies

6.0

2004

New Tricks

Charles Allenforth · (1 episode)

7.4

2004

The Story of Doctor Who

0.0

2003

Too Good to Be True

Robert Lewis

3.0

2003

Hardware

Peter Davison · (1 episode)

4.2

2003

Tricia

Dangerous Davies

10.0

2003

The Last Detective

DC Davies

0.0

2003

The Last Detective

Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies · (17 episodes)

7.6

2003

Richard & Judy

Self · (1 episode)

2.9

2001

Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Himself (archive footage)

0.0

2001

The Home Whovian

0.0

2001

At Home with the Braithwaites

David Braithwaite · (26 episodes)

6.8

2000

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

(2 episodes)

0.0

2000

Adventures in Space and Time

Himself

0.0

1999

The Kidnappers

Himself

0.0

1999

Loose Women

Self · (1 episode)

3.2

1999

Hope and Glory

Neil Bruce · (1 episode)

5.0

1999

It's Only TV But I Like It

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1999

Parting Shots

John

5.6

1999

Wuthering Heights

Joseph Lockwood

6.8

1998

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

Inspector Christmas · (3 episodes)

6.9

1998

The Stalker's Apprentice

D.I. Maurice Burt

4.0

1998

Dear Nobody

Mr. Garton

2.0

1998

Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up

0.0

1997

Jonathan Creek

Stephen Claithorne · (1 episode)

7.5

1997

Midsomer Murders

Nicky Frazer · (1 episode)

7.5

1997

Ghosts of Winterborne

Gavin Purcell

6.3

1996

The Adventures of Toad

Mole

0.0

1996

The Adventures of Mole

Mole

6.0

1995

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

0.0

1995

The Devil of Winterborne

Gavin Purcell

8.8

1995

Mole's Christmas

Mouse

4.8

1994

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

Robert

2.0

1994

Black Beauty

Squire Gordon

6.7

1994

Ain't Misbehavin'

Clive Quigley · (12 episodes)

7.0

1994

The Zero Imperative

Patient One

7.0

1994

Stranger than Fiction

0.0

1994

Harnessing Peacocks

Jim Huxtable

4.5

1993

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

The 5th Doctor

4.4

1993

The Airzone Solution

Al Dunbar

4.9

1993

A Very Polish Practice

Stephen Daker

0.0

1992

Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years

Host

0.0

1992

Fiddlers Three

Ralph West · (14 episodes)

0.0

1991

The PanoptiCon Tapes V

0.0

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

0.0

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

0.0

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes II

0.0

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes

0.0

1990

Campion

Albert Campion · (16 episodes)

5.6

1989

Going Live!

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1987

The PanoptiCon Tapes VI

0.0

1986

Who's Who

0.0

1986

A Very Peculiar Practice

Dr. Stephen Daker · (14 episodes)

8.0

1986

Myth Makers 5: Janet Fielding

0.0

1985

An Audience with Billy Connolly

Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

8.4

1985

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

Lance Fortescue · (2 episodes)

7.1

1985

Anna of the Five Towns

Henry Mynors · (4 episodes)

0.0

1985

Doctor Who's Who's Who

Doctor Who · (1 episode)

0.0

1985

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

Fifth Doctor

9.7

1984

Doctor Who: Planet of Fire

The Doctor

6.0

1984

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

The Doctor

7.8

1984

Doctor Who: Frontios

The Doctor

8.0

1984

Doctor Who: The Awakening

The Doctor

4.7

1984

Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep

The Doctor

4.7

1984

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

The Doctor (5)

7.7

1983

Doctor Who: The King's Demons

The Doctor

4.0

1983

Doctor Who: Enlightenment

The Doctor

8.0

1983

Doctor Who: Terminus

The Doctor

6.5

1983

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

The Doctor

7.0

1983

Doctor Who: Snakedance

The Doctor

4.3

1983

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

The Doctor

8.5

1983

Doctor Who: Time-Flight

The Doctor

5.3

1982

Doctor Who: Earthshock

The Doctor

8.1

1982

Doctor Who: Black Orchid

The Doctor

6.3

1982

Doctor Who: The Visitation

The Doctor

7.7

1982

Doctor Who: Kinda

The Doctor

7.7

1982

Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday

The Doctor

5.0

1982

Doctor Who: Castrovalva

The Doctor

7.8

1982

Doctor Who: Logopolis

The Doctor

6.8

1981

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Dish of the Day

7.2

1981

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dish of the Day · (1 episode)

8.1

1981

Magnum, P.I.

Ian MacKerras · (2 episodes)

7.3

1980

Sink or Swim

Brian Webber · (19 episodes)

6.0

1980

Holding the Fort

Russell Milburn · (20 episodes)

5.0

1980

Tales of the Unexpected

Jeremy Tyler · (1 episode)

6.7

1979

All Creatures Great and Small

Tristan Farnon · (68 episodes)

7.7

1978

An Audience with...

Self · (1 episode)

5.3

1978

Love for Lydia

Tom Holland · (13 episodes)

0.0

1977

Warship

(1 episode)

5.5

1973

Doctor Who

The Doctor · (73 episodes)

7.9

1963