Acting

Peter Davison

Born April 13, 1951 · Streatham, London, England, UK (age 75)

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…

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Black Beauty

Black Beauty · 1994

MovieFamilyAdventure

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

Dream Horse

Dream Horse · 2021

MovieComedyDrama

The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor · 2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

MovieScience FictionAdventure

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song · 2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

MovieDramaScience Fiction

It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.

Patrick

Patrick · 2018

MovieFamilyComedy

A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War · 2025

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still unable to get her home to Earth, Belinda must fight for her life as the Doctor faces an almighty threat to reality itself…

Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who at the Proms · 2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially shot feature for the Fifteenth Doctor and a host of scary aliens as they thrill a packed audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. In a concert like no other in time and space, the much-loved music, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is accompanied by specially edited sequences from the series.

Cuts

A British TV company wants to make a big blockbuster TV series and to add to their chances of success they call in the services of Henry Babbacombe, a nervous man who has only written a small book on nature before. As the production on the series continues, Henry has to make many changes on his scripts as things change on the series and he falls in love with Cynthia Hyde-Lennon. However both she and the TV company wants Henry to write and do stuff that is completely against his morals but he finds itself going along until the TV company and Cynthia turns and savagely stabs him in the back...

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Black Beauty

Black Beauty · 1994

MovieFamilyAdventure

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

Squire Gordon

Dream Horse

Dream Horse · 2021

MovieComedyDrama

The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.

Lord Avery

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor · 2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

MovieScience FictionAdventure

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song · 2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

MovieDramaScience Fiction

It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.

The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)

Patrick

Patrick · 2018

MovieFamilyComedy

A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.

Alan Francis

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War · 2025

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still unable to get her home to Earth, Belinda must fight for her life as the Doctor faces an almighty threat to reality itself…

The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who at the Proms · 2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially shot feature for the Fifteenth Doctor and a host of scary aliens as they thrill a packed audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. In a concert like no other in time and space, the much-loved music, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is accompanied by specially edited sequences from the series.

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

Cuts

A British TV company wants to make a big blockbuster TV series and to add to their chances of success they call in the services of Henry Babbacombe, a nervous man who has only written a small book on nature before. As the production on the series continues, Henry has to make many changes on his scripts as things change on the series and he falls in love with Cynthia Hyde-Lennon. However both she and the TV company wants Henry to write and do stuff that is completely against his morals but he finds itself going along until the TV company and Cynthia turns and savagely stabs him in the back...

Henry Babbacombe

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks · 1984

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

MovieScience FictionDrama

Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth, diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Daleks. It is here the true purpose of the time corridor becomes apparent: after ninety years of imprisonment, Davros, the ruthless creator of the Daleks, is to be liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army. Not even the Daleks foresee the poisonous threat of their creator. Indeed, who would suspect Davros of wanting to destroy his own Daleks - and why? Only the Doctor knows the truth. Will he descend to Davros' level of evil to stop him?

The Doctor

You, Me and Him

You, Me and Him · 2018

You, Me and Him

Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.

Teacher

Who's Who

Who's Who · 1986

MovieDocumentaryTV Movie

Produced for American Public Television, this documentary on the long-running Doctor Who television series features interviews with actors and actresses who played the traveling companions of the Time Lord hero and with three actors, Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, and Colin Baker, who portrayed the title character, as well as footage of a U.S. fan convention where Tom Baker, appeared and answered questions. The fan backlash against the 1985-6 hiatus for the series and the finding of some previously lost Jon Pertwee era episodes are addressed, and this documentary closes with some on-the-street interviews with British viewers, who tell who their favorite Doctor is.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights · 1998

Wuthering Heights

MovieTV MovieDrama

Gypsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by God-fearing landowner Earnshaw in 19th-century northern England and grows up as the soulmate of the daughter, Cathy. However, their romance suffers various tragedies.

Joseph Lockwood

Doctor Who: Logopolis

Doctor Who: Logopolis · 1981

Doctor Who: Logopolis

MovieScience FictionAdventure

After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.

The Doctor

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery · 2023

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

MovieMysteryComedy

It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the village has a Santa competition, but things take a dark turn as competitors start being killed off in a host of warped and festive ways.

David

Parting Shots

Parting Shots · 1999

MovieRomanceCrime

Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he decides that since he is dying anyway, he will kill or destroy all the people that ever crossed or hurt him during his life - after all, he will be dead anyway long before he can come to trial and get his just desserts from society. Harry hires an assassin to finish himself off in style, and even has time to fall in love with Jill. However, there's just one small problem with Harry's master plan - the cancer diagnosis is totally inaccurate and now he's got a hitman on his trail and several policemen wanting to talk to him about some murders...

John

Earthshocked

Earthshocked · 2018

MovieDocumentaryScience Fiction

Featuring cast and crew interviews, recreated sets, and newly shot 16mm film inserts starring the Cybermen.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden · 2007

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden

MovieCrimeTV Movie

The funny side of a veteran nightclub comedy team with a long list of females conquests is poisoned during a live performance.

DC Davies

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot · 2013

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

MovieComedyTV Movie

With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?

Director

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy · 1981

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

MovieAdventureComedy

An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive.

Dish of the Day

The Ties That Bind Us

The Ties That Bind Us · 2008

The Ties That Bind Us

MovieDocumentaryScience Fiction

A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.

The Fifth Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Time Crash

Doctor Who: Time Crash · 2007

Doctor Who: Time Crash

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes face to face with one of his previous incarnations.

The Doctor (5)

Doctor Who: Castrovalva

Doctor Who: Castrovalva · 1982

Doctor Who: Castrovalva

MovieDramaAdventure

The Doctor needs somewhere peaceful to recover from his traumatic regeneration. But the sanctuary of Castrovalva is not all it seems, as the Master will stop at nothing to gain his revenge over the Doctor...

The Doctor

Kiss Me, Kate

Kiss Me, Kate · 2024

MovieComedyRomance

Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.

The General

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor · 2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor?

The Doctor (5) (archive footage)

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders · 1997

Midsomer Murders

SeriesCrimeDrama

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Nicky Frazer

Death in Paradise

Death in Paradise · 2011

Death in Paradise

SeriesComedyCrime

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

Arnold Finch

Doctor Who

Doctor Who · 1963

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

The Doctor

New Tricks

New Tricks · 2004

SeriesDramaComedy

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Charles Allenforth

Vera

SeriesCrimeDrama

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Matthew Wells

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. · 1980

SeriesCrimeDrama

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

Ian MacKerras

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple · 2004

Agatha Christie's Marple

SeriesDramaCrime

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Hubert Curtain

Lewis

SeriesCrimeDrama

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Peter Faulkner

Good Omens

Good Omens · 2019

SeriesComedyDrama

Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that it's about to end. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing. The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Everything is going according to the Divine Plan...except that someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Can our heroes find him and stop Armageddon before it's too late?

Job

Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected · 1979

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

Jeremy Tyler

All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small · 1978

All Creatures Great and Small

SeriesComedyDrama

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

Tristan Farnon

Beyond Paradise

Beyond Paradise · 2023

Beyond Paradise

SeriesDramaCrime

After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.

Richard Baxter

Jonathan Creek

Jonathan Creek · 1997

SeriesMysteryComedy

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

Stephen Claithorne

Doctor Who Confidential

Doctor Who Confidential · 2005

Doctor Who Confidential

SeriesDocumentary

Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode was broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly television episode on BBC One. The running time of the first two series was 30 minutes, being extended to 45 minutes in the third. BBC Three also broadcast a cut-down edition of the programme, lasting 15 minutes, shown after the repeats on Sundays and Fridays and after the weekday evening repeats of earlier seasons.

The Gold

The Gold · 2023

SeriesCrimeDrama

On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m.

Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart

Law & Order: UK

Law & Order: UK · 2009

Law & Order: UK

Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.

Henry Sharpe

Screen One

Screen One · 1989

Anthology drama series.

Dr. Stephen Daker

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose · 2019

The Name of the Rose

SeriesDramaMystery

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

Old Adso / Narrator (voice)

Gentleman Jack

Gentleman Jack · 2019

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

William Priestley

Toast of London

Toast of London · 2013

Toast of London

Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

Peter Davison

Liar

SeriesDramaCrime

A teacher and a surgeon are rocked by scandalous accusations after they enjoy a seemingly innocent date.

Denis Walters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1981

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman whose life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).

Dish of the Day

Miss Marple

Miss Marple · 1984

The definitive adaptation of all twelve Miss Marple novels, starring Joan Hickson in the title role and featuring one of the all-time TV themes, composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. The series was produced by George Gallaccio, written by T. R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Parker, Ken Taylor, and Jill Hyem, and co-stars David Horovitch and Ian Brimble as officers Slack and Lake. Over the course of the series it also features John Castle, Joan Sims, Sylvia Syms, Samantha Bond, Peter Davison, Timothy West, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Maurice Denham, Donald Pleasence, Sophie Ward, Jean Simmons, and Joss Ackland.

Lance Fortescue

Campion

Campion · 1989

SeriesMysteryDrama

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.

Albert Campion