Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, and playing the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972-1973, 1983 and 1985.

Filmography

• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• 2024Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour — The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• 2023Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace — The Doctor (voice)
• Tales of the Tardis — The Doctor
• 2022Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen — The Doctor (voice)
• Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep — The Doctor (voice)
• 2021Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks — The Doctor (voice)
• 2021Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3 — The Doctor (voice)
• 2020Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones — The Doctor (voice)
• 2019Doctor Who: The Macra Terror — The Doctor (voice)
• 2017Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time — The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• 2016Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks — The Doctor (Voice)
• 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song — The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)
• 2015Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
• 2013Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (2) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor — The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• 2009Devious — Second Doctor (archive footage)
• 2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 — (archival footage)
• 2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor — The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• 2008Five Doctors, One Studio
• 2008The Ties That Bind Us — The Second Doctor (archive footage)
• 2003Adventures in Time and Spain — (archvie footage)
• Doctor Who Then & Now — Doctor Who
• Inspector Morse — George Jackson
• Knights of God — Arthur
• Yesterday's Dreams — Jack
• The Two of Us — Perce
• 1985Doctor Who: The Two Doctors — The Doctor
• 1985Long Term Memory — Gerald
• Super Gran — Great Sporran of the Isles
• 1984Amy — Lord Rothermere
• 1984Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks — The Doctor (2) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Box of Delights — Cole Hawlings
• 1983Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead — The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• 1983Doctor Who: The Five Doctors — The Second Doctor
• Dramarama — Instructor
• 1983Reluctant Chickens — Malcolm
• 1982Doctor Who: Earthshock — The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• Foxy Lady
• Shine on Harvey Moon — Wilf
• 1982The Pigman's Protege — William Pierce
• 1981John Diamond — Joseph K'Nee
• 1981P.Q. 17 — Commodore Londonderry
• 1981Tales from the Thousand and One Nights — The Swindler
• 1980No Defence — Judge Barnes-Ritchie
• Minder — Joe Mancini
• Only When I Laugh — Joe Perkins
• 1978A Hitch in Time — Professor Wagstaff
• All Creatures Great and Small — Roddy
• 1978Edward & Mrs. Simpson — Clement Attlee
• Edward and Mrs Simpson — Clement Atlee
• The Famous Five — Mr. Stick
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Rear Admiral Markham
• 1977Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger — Melanthius
• 1977The Sinking of the HMS Victoria — Rear Admiral Markham
• 1977Treasure Island — Israel Hands
• 1976Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius — The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)
• Lorna Doone
• 1976Love Letters on Blue Paper — Victor Marsden
• The Feathered Serpent — Nasca
• 1976The Omen — Father Brennan
• Yanks Go Home — Lubbock
• Angels
• 1975Nurse Will Make It Better — Lyall
• Space: 1999 — Archon
• Survivors — John Millen
• The Love School — Frederick Stephens
• The Sweeney — Reg Crofts
• Churchill's People — Hainault
• 1974Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell — Bodysnatcher
• Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
• Playhouse — William Pierce
• Village Hall — Bill Lester
• 1973Doctor Who: The Three Doctors — The Doctor
• Hawkeye, the Pathfinder — Uncle Cap
• Thriller — Lyall
• Warship
• Whoops Baghdad — Tamberlane the Terrible
• Colditz — Padre
• Crown Court — Joseph Molloy
• 1972Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks — The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)
• The Protectors — Bela Karoleon
• Van der Valk — Father Bosch
• Jason King
• 1971The Chopper — Jimmy Reed
• The Persuaders! — Count Marceau
• 1970Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It — Mr. Fidler
• Doomwatch — Lyon McArthur / Alan McArthur
• Little Women — Robert March
• On the House — Doctor Stanley
• Play for Today — Victor Marsden, Judge Barnes-Ritchie, Malcolm
• 1970Scars of Dracula — Klove
• The Goodies — Dr. Petal
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII — Duke of Norfolk
• 1969Doctor Who: The Krotons — The Doctor
• 1969Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death — The Doctor
• 1969Doctor Who: The Space Pirates — The Doctor
• 1969Doctor Who: The War Games — The Doctor
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Reilly
• Paul Temple
• The Main Chance — Frederick Owen
• 1968Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep — The Doctor
• 1968Doctor Who: The Dominators — The Doctor
• 1968Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World — Dr. Who/Salamander
• 1968Doctor Who: The Invasion — The Doctor
• 1968Doctor Who: The Mind Robber — The Doctor
• 1968Doctor Who: The Web of Fear — The Doctor
• 1968Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Highlanders — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Macra Terror — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Moonbase — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen — The Doctor
• 1967Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace — The Doctor
• ITV Playhouse — Mr. Fidler
• 1967The Viking Queen — Tristram
• David Copperfield — Pawnbroker
• 1966Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks — Dr. Who
• 1966Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet — The Doctor (2) (uncredited)
• Softly, Softly
• A Tale of Two Cities — Dr. Manette
• 1965And Did Those Feet ? — Lord Fountain
• Doctor Who: Lost in Time — The Doctor
• 1965Give the Clown His Supper — Stuart
• Out of the Unknown — Jimmy Reed
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Stuart Pendleton, Justley
• HMS Paradise — Captain Ahab Rudlow
• Sherlock Holmes
• Smuggler's Bay — Ratsey
• 1964The Black Torment — Regis
• 1964The Gorgon — Inspector Kanof
• The Wednesday Play — Lord Fountain
• Doctor Who — The Doctor
• Espionage — John McBride
• 1963Jason and the Argonauts — Phineas
• No Cloak - No Dagger — Trev
• Compact
• Dr. Finlay's Casebook — Alex Dean
• Man of the World — Thiboeuf
• The Old Curiosity Shop — Daniel Quilp
• 1962The Phantom of the Opera — The Rat Catcher
• The Saint — Insp. Gambetti
• 1962Wuthering Heights — Hindley
• Z-Cars
• 1961A Call on Kuprin: Part 2 — Narrator (voice)
• Sir Francis Drake — Gazio
• Danger Man — Bart, Brenner
• Maigret
• Sunday-Night Play — Narrator (voice)
• International Detective — Silversmith, Bela Davos
• Interpol Calling — Sukru
• No Hiding Place
• The Third Man — Luigi Carvossa
• The Adventures of William Tell — Hanzler
• 1958The Moonraker — Captain Wilcox
• 1957Ordeal by Fire — La Hire
• 19561984 — Man on Telescreen (uncredited)
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• 1955Richard III — Tyrell
• The Adventures of Robin Hood — Constable, Sir William Fitzwalter, Seneschal, Traveller, Raoul, Sir Boland, Sir Fulke Devereaux, Constable (uncredited)
• The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel — Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
• 1954The Black Knight — King Mark
• Robin Hood
• 1951The Franchise Affair — Bill Brough
• 1951White Corridors — Sailor
• 1950Chance of a Lifetime — Kettle
• Sunday Night Theatre — Cardinal Wolsey
• 1950The Woman with No Name — Colin
• 1950Treasure Island — Roach
• 1950Waterfront — Sam (uncredited)
• 1949Badger's Green — Jim Carter
• 1949Cardboard Cavalier — Executed Man (uncredited)
• 1948Escape — Jim
• 1948Hamlet — Player King
• 1948R.U.R. — Radius, a robot
• 1948The Red Shoes — BBC Radio Announcer (voice)

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2023Talking Doctor Who — Self / The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
• 2022Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen' — Self (archive footage)
• Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited — Self
• 2003Patrick Troughton in America — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy — Himself (archive footage)
• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)
• 199330 Years in the TARDIS — Himself (archive footage)