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Peter Davison
Born 13 April 1951 75 years old Streatham, London, England, UK Who else is 75? → TMDB ↗
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.
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The numbers
12age in their first credit on record (1963)
62years on screen and counting
10credits in 2007, their busiest year
148dated credits on record
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Movie credits
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Frank and Percy
Age: 74 Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks
2025as The Fifth Doctor
Age: 74 Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age: 73 Doctor Who at the Proms
2024as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Age: 73 Kiss Me, Kate
2024as The General
Age: 72 Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny
2024as The Big Boss (Voice)
Age: 72 Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
2023as David
Age: 70 End of Term
2021as Leigh
Age: 70 Dream Horse
2021as Lord Avery
Age: 67 Earthshocked
2018
Age: 67 Say My Name
2018as Detective Rich Herbig
Age: 67 Patrick
2018as Alan Francis
Age: 66 You, Me and Him
2018as Teacher
Age: 64 Gypsy
2015as Herbie
Age: 64 Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015as The Doctor (5) (picture) (uncredited)
Age: 64 Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2015
Age: 62 Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
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Age: 61 The Women of Doctor Who
2012
Age: 60 Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Age: 60 Driven to Distractation
2011
Age: 59 Come in Number Five
2011
Age: 59 Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'
2011
Age: 59 Chain Reaction
2010
Age: 58 Micro Men
2009as Bank manager
Age: 57 Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008as The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
Age: 57 Now, Get Out of That
2008
Age: 56 Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008
Age: 56 The Ties That Bind Us
2008as The Fifth Doctor (archive footage)
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Age: 56 Five Doctors, One Studio
2008
Age: 56 Doctor Who: Time Crash
2007as The Doctor (5)
Age: 56 The Dead Peasants Society
2007as DC Davies
Age: 56 The Man from Montevideo
2007as DC Davies
Age: 56 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
2007as DC Davies
Age: 56 Dangerous Liaisons
2007as Davies
Age: 56 Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007as DC Davies
Age: 55 A New Body at Last
2007
Age: 55 The Crowded TARDIS
2007
Age: 54 Willesden Confidential
2005as DC Davies
Age: 54 Three Steps to Hendon
2005as DC Davies
Age: 54 Towpaths of Glory
2005as DC Davies
Age: 54 Friends Reunited
2005as DC Davies
Age: 52 Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
2004as DC Davies
Age: 52 Benefit to Mankind
2004as DC Davies
Age: 52 The Long Bank Holiday
2004as Dangerous Davies
Age: 52 Christine
2004as Dangerous Davies
Age: 52 The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Age: 52 Too Good to Be True
2003as Robert Lewis
Age: 51 Tricia
2003as Dangerous Davies
Age: 51 The Last Detective
2003as DC Davies
Age: 49 The Home Whovian
2001
Age: 48 Parting Shots
1999as John
Age: 47 Wuthering Heights
1998as Joseph Lockwood
Age: 47 The Stalker's Apprentice
1998as D.I. Maurice Burt
Age: 46 Dear Nobody
1998as Mr. Garton
Age: 46 Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
Age: 45 PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
1996as Gavin Purcell
Age: 45 The Adventures of Toad
1996as Mole
Age: 44 The Adventures of Mole
1995as Mole
Age: 44 The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
Age: 44 PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995as Gavin Purcell
Age: 43 Mole's Christmas
1994as Mouse
Age: 43 A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994as Robert
Age: 43 Black Beauty
1994as Squire Gordon
Age: 42 PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994as Patient One
Age: 42 Stranger than Fiction
1994
Age: 42 Harnessing Peacocks
1993as Jim Huxtable
Age: 42 Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993as The 5th Doctor
Age: 41 The Airzone Solution
1993as Al Dunbar
Age: 41 A Very Polish Practice
1992as Stephen Daker
Age: 39 The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1991
Age: 38 The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990
Age: 38 The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990
Age: 38 The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
Age: 38 The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
Age: 35 The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986
Age: 35 Who's Who
1986
Age: 32 Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
1984as The Doctor
Age: 32 Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984as The Doctor
Age: 32 Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984as The Doctor
Age: 32 Doctor Who: Frontios
1984as The Doctor
Age: 32 Doctor Who: The Awakening
1984as The Doctor
Age: 32 Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
1984as The Doctor
Age: 32 Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983as The Fifth Doctor
Age: 31 Doctor Who: The King's Demons
1983as The Doctor
Age: 31 Doctor Who: Enlightenment
1983as The Doctor
Age: 31 Doctor Who: Terminus
1983as The Doctor
Age: 31 Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983as The Doctor
Age: 31 Doctor Who: Snakedance
1983as The Doctor
Age: 31 Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983as The Doctor
Age: 30 Doctor Who: Time-Flight
1982as The Doctor
Age: 30 Doctor Who: Earthshock
1982as The Doctor
Age: 30 Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982as The Doctor
Age: 30 Doctor Who: The Visitation
1982as The Doctor
Age: 30 Doctor Who: Kinda
1982as The Doctor
Age: 30 Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982as The Doctor
Age: 30 Doctor Who: Castrovalva
1982as The Doctor
Age: 29 Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981as The Doctor
Age: 29 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981as Dish of the Day
Age: 28 Print-Out
1979as Edwin Styles
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TV credits
Age: 72 Tales of the Tardis
2023as The Doctor
Age: 71 Beyond Paradise
2023as Richard Baxter
Age: 71 The Gold
2023as Assistant Commissioner Gordon Stewart
Age: 71 The Gold
2023as Commissioner Gordon Stewart
Age: 70 The Larkins
2021as Vicar
Age: 69 Life
2020as Henry Reynolds
Age: 68 Good Omens
2019as Job
Age: 68 Gentleman Jack
2019as William Priestley
Age: 67 The Name of the Rose
2019as Old Adso / Narrator (voice)
Age: 66 Liar
2017as Denis Walters
Age: 62 Toast of London
2013as Peter Davison
Age: 62 Pat & Cabbage
2013as Michael
Age: 60 Death in Paradise
2011as Arnold Finch
Age: 60 Vera
2011as Matthew Wells
Age: 58 The Queen
2009
Age: 57 Law & Order: UK
2009as Henry Sharpe
Age: 57 Unforgiven
2009as John Ingram
Age: 55 Fear, Stress & Anger
2007as Martin Chadwick
Age: 55 Lewis
2007as Peter Faulkner
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Age: 55 The Complete Guide to Parenting
2006as George Huntley
Age: 53 Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Age: 53 Distant Shores
2005as Bill Shore
Age: 53 Agatha Christie's Marple
2004as Hubert Curtain
Age: 52 New Tricks
2004as Charles Allenforth
Age: 51 Hardware
2003as Peter Davison
Age: 51 The Last Detective
2003as Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies
Age: 48 At Home with the Braithwaites
2000as David Braithwaite
Age: 48 The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Age: 48 Hope and Glory
1999as Neil Bruce
Age: 47 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998as Inspector Christmas
Age: 46 Jonathan Creek
1997as Stephen Claithorne
Age: 45 Midsomer Murders
1997as Nicky Frazer
Age: 45 Midsomer Murders
1997as Archie Pollock
Age: 42 Ain't Misbehavin'
1994as Clive Quigley
Age: 39 Fiddlers Three
1991as Ralph West
Age: 38 Screen One
1989as Dr. Stephen Daker
Age: 37 Campion
1989as Albert Campion
Age: 35 A Very Peculiar Practice
1986as Dr Stephen Daker
Age: 33 Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985as Lance Fortescue
Age: 33 Anna of the Five Towns
1985as Henry Mynors
Age: 33 Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985as Doctor Who
Age: 29 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981as Dish of the Day
Age: 29 Magnum, P.I.
1980as Ian MacKerras
Age: 29 Sink or Swim
1980as Brian Webber
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Age: 29 Holding the Fort
1980as Russell Milburn
Age: 27 Tales of the Unexpected
1979as Jeremy Tyler
Age: 26 All Creatures Great and Small
1978as Tristan Farnon
Age: 26 Love for Lydia
1977as Tom Holland
Age: 22 Warship
1973
Age: 12 Doctor Who
1963as The Doctor