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.

Filmography

• 2026Frank and Percy
• 2025Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks — The Fifth Doctor
• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
• 2024Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny — The Big Boss (Voice)
• 2024Kiss Me, Kate — The General
• Beyond Paradise — Richard Baxter
• 2023Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery — David
• Tales of the Tardis — The Doctor
• The Gold — Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart
• 2021Dream Horse — Lord Avery
• 2021End of Term — Leigh
• The Larkins — Vicar
• Life — Henry Reynolds
• Gentleman Jack — William Priestley
• Good Omens — Job
• The Name of the Rose — Old Adso / Narrator (voice)
• 2018Earthshocked
• 2018Patrick — Alan Francis
• 2018Say My Name — Detective Rich Herbig
• 2018You, Me and Him — Teacher
• Liar — Denis Walters
• 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song — The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)
• 2015Gypsy — Herbie
• 2015Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
• 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor — The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
• Pat & Cabbage — Michael
• 2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot — Self, Director, Writer
• Toast of London — Peter Davison
• 2012The Women of Doctor Who
• 2011Come in Number Five
• Death in Paradise — Arnold Finch
• 2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
• 2011Driven to Distractation
• 2011Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'
• Vera — Matthew Wells
• 2010Chain Reaction
• Law & Order: UK — Henry Sharpe
• 2009Micro Men — Bank manager
• The Queen
• Unforgiven — John Ingram
• 2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
• 2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor — The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
• 2008Five Doctors, One Studio
• 2008Now, Get Out of That
• 2008The Ties That Bind Us — The Fifth Doctor (archive footage)
• 2008Trials and Tribulations — (archive footage)
• 2007A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden — DC Davies
• 2007A New Body at Last
• 2007Dangerous Liaisons — Davies
• 2007Doctor Who: Time Crash — The Doctor (5)
• Fear, Stress & Anger — Martin Chadwick
• Lewis — Peter Faulkner
• 2007Once Upon a Time on the Westway — DC Davies
• 2007The Crowded TARDIS
• 2007The Dead Peasants Society — DC Davies
• 2007The Man from Montevideo — DC Davies
• The Complete Guide to Parenting — George Huntley
• Distant Shores — Bill Shore
• Doctor Who Confidential
• 2005Friends Reunited — DC Davies
• 2005Three Steps to Hendon — DC Davies
• 2005Towpaths of Glory — DC Davies
• 2005Willesden Confidential — DC Davies
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Hubert Curtain
• 2004Benefit to Mankind — DC Davies
• 2004Christine — Dangerous Davies
• 2004Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts — DC Davies
• New Tricks — Charles Allenforth
• 2004The Long Bank Holiday — Dangerous Davies
• Hardware — Peter Davison
• 2003The Last Detective — DC Davies
• The Last Detective — Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies
• 2003The Story of Doctor Who
• 2003Too Good to Be True — Robert Lewis
• Too Good to Be True — Robert Lewis
• 2003Tricia — Dangerous Davies
• 2001The Home Whovian
• At Home with the Braithwaites — David Braithwaite
• The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
• Hope and Glory — Neil Bruce
• 1999Parting Shots — John
• 1998Dear Nobody — Mr. Garton
• The Mrs Bradley Mysteries — Inspector Christmas
• 1998The Stalker's Apprentice — D.I. Maurice Burt
• Verdict — Michael Naylor
• 1998Wuthering Heights — Joseph Lockwood
• Jonathan Creek — Stephen Claithorne
• Midsomer Murders — Nicky Frazer, Archie Pollock
• 1997Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
• 1996Cuts — Henry Babbacombe
• 1996PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne — Gavin Purcell
• 1996The Adventures of Toad — Mole
• 1995Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
• 1995PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne — Gavin Purcell
• 1995The Adventures of Mole — Mole
• 1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
• 1994A Man You Don't Meet Every Day — Robert
• Ain't Misbehavin' — Clive Quigley
• 1994Black Beauty — Squire Gordon
• 1994Mole's Christmas — Mouse
• 1994PROBE: The Zero Imperative — Patient One
• 1994Stranger than Fiction
• 1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time — The 5th Doctor
• 1993Harnessing Peacocks — Jim Huxtable
• 1993The Airzone Solution — Al Dunbar
• 1992A Very Polish Practice — Stephen Daker
• Fiddlers Three — Ralph West
• 1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes II
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes III
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
• 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes V
• Campion — Albert Campion
• Screen One — Dr. Stephen Daker
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Dr Stephen Daker
• 1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
• 1986Who's Who
• Anna of the Five Towns — Henry Mynors
• Doctor Who's Who's Who — Doctor Who
• Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye — Lance Fortescue
• 1984Doctor Who: Frontios — The Doctor
• 1984Doctor Who: Planet of Fire — The Doctor
• 1984Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks — The Doctor
• 1984Doctor Who: The Awakening — The Doctor
• 1984Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani — The Doctor
• 1984Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep — The Doctor
• Miss Marple — Lance Fortescue
• 1983Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity — The Doctor
• 1983Doctor Who: Enlightenment — The Doctor
• 1983Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead — The Doctor
• 1983Doctor Who: Snakedance — The Doctor
• 1983Doctor Who: Terminus — The Doctor
• 1983Doctor Who: The Five Doctors — The Fifth Doctor
• 1983Doctor Who: The King's Demons — The Doctor
• 1982Doctor Who: Black Orchid — The Doctor
• 1982Doctor Who: Castrovalva — The Doctor
• 1982Doctor Who: Earthshock — The Doctor
• 1982Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday — The Doctor
• 1982Doctor Who: Kinda — The Doctor
• 1982Doctor Who: The Visitation — The Doctor
• 1982Doctor Who: Time-Flight — The Doctor
• 1981Doctor Who: Logopolis — The Doctor
• 1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy — Dish of the Day
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Dish of the Day
• Holding the Fort — Russell Milburn
• Magnum, P.I. — Ian MacKerras
• Sink or Swim — Brian Webber
• 1979Print-Out — Edwin Styles
• Tales of the Unexpected — Jeremy Tyler
• All Creatures Great and Small — Tristan Farnon
• Love for Lydia — Tom Holland
• Warship
• Doctor Who — The Doctor

Appearances as themselves (38)

• 2023Talking Doctor Who — Self / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
• The Big Steam Adventure — Himself
• 2022Peter Davison: Uncut! — Self
• Remembers… — Self
• Between the Covers — Self
• 2020The Big Night In — Self
• 2020The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner — Himself
• Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa — Self
• 2018Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines — Self
• 2018Peter Davison: In Conversation — Self
• 2018The Muppets Take The O2 — Self
• Vintage Roads — Himself - Presenter
• Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule — Self
• Sugar Free Farm — Self
• 2015Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe — Self
• 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion — Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
• 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison — Self - Presenter / The Fifth Doctor
• 2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty — Self
• 2013Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor — Self
• 2013Doctor Who at the Proms — Self - Special Guest Appearance / The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
• 2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS — Self
• Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited — Self
• 2012Tales of Television Centre — Self
• 2012The Destinations of Doctor Who — Self
• 2012The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who — Self
• 2005Doctor Who: A New Dimension — Self
• 2001Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy — Himself (archive footage)
• Richard & Judy — Self
• 1999Adventures in Space and Time — Himself
• It's Only TV But I Like It — Self
• Loose Women — Self
• 1999The Kidnappers — Himself
• 1992Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years — Self - Host
• Going Live! — Self
• 1985An Audience with Billy Connolly — Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• 1983Once Upon a Time Lord — Self
• An Audience with... — Self