Peter Davison

Born: 1951-04-13, Streatham, London, England, UK

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

• Midsomer Murders (1997)
• Death in Paradise (2011)
• Magnum, P.I. (1980)
• Vera (2011)
• Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
• Lewis (2007)
• Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
• Law & Order: UK (2009)
• Jonathan Creek (1997)
• Beyond Paradise (2023)
• The Gold (2023)
• Gentleman Jack (2019)
• All Creatures Great and Small (1978)
• Screen One (1989)
• Toast of London (2013)
• Black Beauty (1994)
• Dream Horse (2021)
• A Very Peculiar Practice (1986)
• The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998)
• Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
• Anna of the Five Towns (1985)
• Parting Shots (1999)
• Distant Shores (2005)
• Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)
• Cuts (1996)
• Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
• The Big Steam Adventure (2023)
• Fear, Stress & Anger (2007)
• Print-Out (1979)
• Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)