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Peter Davison

Acting

Born April 13, 1951 · Streatham, London, England, UK

Also known as Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett · پیتر دیویسون

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.

Filmography43 titles

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

Good Omens

2019as Job

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015as The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1981as Dish of the Day

Doctor Who

1963as The Doctor

Gentleman Jack

2019as William Priestley

Gypsy

2015as Herbie

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004as Hubert Curtain

The Last Detective

2003as Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies

All Creatures Great & Small

1978as Tristan Farnon

Inspector Lewis

2006as Peter Faulkner

Toast of London

2012as Peter Davison

Death in Paradise

2011as Arnold Finch

Midsomer Murders

1997as Archie Pollock

Jonathan Creek

1997as Stephen Claithorne

Life

2020as Henry Reynolds

Vera

2011as Matthew Wells

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

Unforgiven

as John Ingram

The Gold

2023as Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart

New Tricks

2004as Charles Allenforth

Magnum, P.I.

1980as Ian MacKerras

Say My Name

2018as Detective Rich Herbig

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

as Inspector Christmas

Dream Horse

2020as Lord Avery

The Name of the Rose

2019as Old Adso / Narrator (voice)

Law & Order: UK

2009as Henry Sharpe

Vintage Roads

as Himself - Presenter

Beyond Paradise

2023as Richard Baxter

Tales of the Unexpected

1979as Jeremy Tyler

Patrick the Pug

2018as Alan Francis

Wuthering Heights

1998as Joseph Lockwood

Black Beauty

1994as Squire Gordon

Liar

2017as Denis Walters

At Home with the Braithwaites

as David Braithwaite

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013as Self

Campion

1989as Albert Campion

The Larkins

2021as Vicar

You, Me and Him

2017as Teacher

Parting Shots

1999as John

The Airzone Solution

1993as Al Dunbar

The Stalker's Apprentice

1998as D.I. Maurice Burt

End of Term

2021as Leigh