
Peter Davison
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.…
Filmography

Who's Who
1986 · 10.0

Tricia
2003 · 10.0

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
1984 · 9.8

Anna of the Five Towns
1985 · 9.0
The Women of Doctor Who
2012 · 8.5

PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995 · 8.4

A Very Peculiar Practice
1986 · 8.2

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 · 8.2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981 · 8.1

Doctor Who: Earthshock
1982 · 8.1

Good Omens
2019 · 8.0

Doctor Who Confidential
2005 · 8.0

Love for Lydia
1977 · 8.0

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011 · 8.0

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 · 8.0

The Story of Doctor Who
2003 · 8.0

The Long Bank Holiday
2004 · 8.0

A New Body at Last
2007 · 8.0

Stranger than Fiction
1994 · 8.0

Doctor Who
1963 · 7.9

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · 7.9

Gentleman Jack
2019 · 7.9

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984 · 7.9

All Creatures Great and Small
1978 · 7.8

The Last Detective
2003 · 7.8

Miss Marple
1984 · 7.8

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983 · 7.8

Doctor Who: Castrovalva
1982 · 7.8

Doctor Who: Frontios
1984 · 7.8

Doctor Who: Time Crash
2007 · 7.7

Gypsy
2015 · 7.7

Doctor Who: Enlightenment
1983 · 7.7

Miranda
2009 · 7.6

Jonathan Creek
1997 · 7.6

Lewis
2007 · 7.6

Toast of London
2013 · 7.5

Hope and Glory
1999 · 7.5

Ain't Misbehavin'
1994 · 7.5

Doctor Who: Kinda
1982 · 7.5

The Adventures of Mole
1995 · 7.5

Midsomer Murders
1997 · 7.5

Death in Paradise
2011 · 7.4

Vera
2011 · 7.4

Life
2020 · 7.4

Unforgiven
2009 · 7.4

Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 · 7.4

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008 · 7.4

Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981 · 7.4

The Gold
2023 · 7.3

New Tricks
2004 · 7.3

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985 · 7.3

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998 · 7.3

Distant Shores
2005 · 7.3

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981 · 7.3

Magnum, P.I.
1980 · 7.3

Screen One
1989 · 7.2

Doctor Who: The Visitation
1982 · 7.2

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983 · 7.2

PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994 · 7.2

Say My Name
2018 · 7.2

Beyond Paradise
2023 · 7.1

Micro Men
2009 · 7.1

Law & Order: UK
2009 · 7.0

The Name of the Rose
2019 · 7.0

The Queen
2009 · 7.0

Dream Horse
2021 · 7.0

Sink or Swim
1980 · 7.0

Fear, Stress & Anger
2007 · 7.0

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983 · 7.0

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995 · 7.0

The Crowded TARDIS
2007 · 7.0

Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · 6.8

Warship
1973 · 6.7

Black Beauty
1994 · 6.7

Patrick
2018 · 6.7

Wuthering Heights
1998 · 6.7

Liar
2017 · 6.6

At Home with the Braithwaites
2000 · 6.5

Campion
1989 · 6.5

Doctor Who: Time-Flight
1982 · 6.4

Doctor Who: Terminus
1983 · 6.4

Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982 · 6.2

Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984 · 6.0

Christine
2004 · 6.0

The Marlow Murder Club
2024 · 5.9

PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
1996 · 5.9

Tales of the Tardis
2023 · 5.8

The Larkins
2021 · 5.7

Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
2023 · 5.7

You, Me and Him
2018 · 5.6
Holding the Fort
1980 · 5.5

Parting Shots
1999 · 5.5

Hardware
2003 · 5.4

Doctor Who: The Awakening
1984 · 5.4

Mole's Christmas
1994 · 5.4

Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982 · 5.3

The Airzone Solution
1993 · 5.3

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 · 5.1

Doctor Who: Snakedance
1983 · 5.0

Harnessing Peacocks
1993 · 5.0

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993 · 4.8

Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
1984 · 4.8

The Stalker's Apprentice
1998 · 4.6

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
2007 · 4.5

Doctor Who: The King's Demons
1983 · 4.3

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994 · 3.7

Kiss Me, Kate
2024 · 3.5

Too Good to Be True
2003 · 3.5

Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995 · 2.0

Fiddlers Three
1991 · 0.0

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000 · 0.0
Verdict
1998 · 0.0

Pat & Cabbage
2013 · 0.0

Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985 · 0.0

Earthshocked
2018 · 0.0

Print-Out
1979 · 0.0

Frank and Percy
2026 · 0.0
Too Good to Be True
2003 · 0.0

Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks
2025 · 0.0
The Complete Guide to Parenting
2006 · 0.0

Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'
2011 · 0.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1991 · 0.0

The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · 0.0

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008 · 0.0

The Last Detective
2003 · 0.0
Five Doctors, One Studio
2008 · 0.0

The Adventures of Toad
1996 · 0.0

Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2015 · 0.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990 · 0.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986 · 0.0

Three Steps to Hendon
2005 · 0.0

A Very Polish Practice
1992 · 0.0

The Man from Montevideo
2007 · 0.0

Now, Get Out of That
2008 · 0.0

Come in Number Five
2011 · 0.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990 · 0.0

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
2004 · 0.0

Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007 · 0.0

Driven to Distractation
2011 · 0.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990 · 0.0

End of Term
2021 · 0.0

Friends Reunited
2005 · 0.0

Benefit to Mankind
2004 · 0.0

The Dead Peasants Society
2007 · 0.0

Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997 · 0.0

Dangerous Liaisons
2007 · 0.0

Towpaths of Glory
2005 · 0.0

Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny
2024 · 0.0

Trials and Tribulations
2008 · 0.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990 · 0.0

Willesden Confidential
2005 · 0.0

The Home Whovian
2001 · 0.0

Chain Reaction
2010 · 0.0