Peter Davison

Davison (2016)

Peter Davison (born April 13, 1951 in Streatham , London ; actually Peter Moffett ) is a British actor .

Live and act

The son of an electrical engineer, who originally came from Guyana , grew up in a small town near Woking in the west of the English county of Surrey . Before Davison started acting, he did a variety of odd jobs, including an undertaker.

Davison studied at the renowned Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He received his first engagement in 1972 at the Nottingham Playhouse in Nottingham . He chose Peter Davison as his stage name so as not to be confused with the actor and director Peter Moffatt , with whom Davison later worked. His first television role was in 1975 in the popular UK fantasy series The Tomorrow People . While filming, he met the American actress Sandra Dickinson , whom he later married. In 1977 Davison played alongside Jeremy Irons in the television series Liebe zu Lydia , which was also broadcast in Germany. From 1978 Davison stood as "Tristan Farnon" in the BBC television series The Doctor and the Dear Cattle in front of the camera, which was based on the novels of the veterinarian James Herriot . Through the series, Davison became known to an audience of millions in Germany.

Between 1981 and 1984 he played the fifth doctor in the British BBC cult series Doctor Who .

In 2010 Davison played one of the leading roles in the musical Legally Blonde in London . From 2011 to 2015 he was one of the main characters in the series Law & Order: UK . In 2013 he wrote his first short film, The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot , which he subsequently directed. He won his eldest daughter, Georgia Tennant, to produce his 50th anniversary comedy special for Doctor Who .

Private life

In 1978 Davison married actress Sandra Dickinson . With her he had a daughter, Georgia Moffett in 1984 . Georgia has been married to David Tennant since 2011 , and the actors met while filming Doctor Who in 2008 . Two decades after Davison, Tennant had also taken on the leading role there as the doctor's tenth incarnation . Davison has three grandchildren from the marriage so far (* 2011, 2013, 2015), his eldest grandson Ty (* 2002) comes from an early relationship in Georgia, which is still school-age, Tennant adopted him in 2011. Davison and Dickinson divorced in 1994 and married in 2003 Fellow actor Elizabeth Morton (actually Elizabeth Heery), with whom he has two sons, actors Louis Davison and Joel James Davison .

Filmography

• 1975: The Tomorrow People (TV series, 3 episodes, with later wife Sandra Dickinson )
• 1977: Liebe zu Lydia ( Love for Lydia , 13-part television series)
• 1978–1990: The Doctor and the Dear Cattle ( All Creatures Great and Small , TV series)
• 1979–1982: Once Upon a Time (TV series, appearance as himself)
• 1980: Pebble Mill at One (TV show, performing as himself)
• 1980–1982: Sink or Swim (TV series)
• 1980–1982: Holding the Fort (TV series)
• 1981: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , television series, and his wife Sandra Dickinson)
• 1981–1984: Doctor Who (TV series)
• 1982: This Is Your Life (TV series, appeared as himself)
• 1985: Fox Tales (TV series, voice, multiple roles)
• 1985: Anna of the Five Towns (TV series)
• 1985: Magnum (TV series, episodes 6.01 and 6.02)
• 1986–1988: A Very Peculiar Practice (TV movie)
• 1986: Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (TV series, episode "A Pocket Full of Rye")
• 1986: Magnum, PI (TV series, episode "Déjà vu")
• 1988: Tales of the Unexpected (TV series, episode "Wink Three Times")
• 1989–1990: Albert Campion ( Campion , TV series, 16 episodes)
• 1991: Fiddlers Three (TV series)
• 1992: A Very Polish Practice (TV movie)
• 1992: Kinsey (TV series)
• 1993: Harnessing Peacocks (TV movie)
• 1993: The Airzone Solution (feature film)
• 1993: Dimensions in Time (return to the 5th Doctor ; benefit minisode for Children in Need for the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who )
• 1994: Heartbeat (TV series, episode "A Bird in the Hand")
• 1994: The Zero Imperative (feature film)
• 1994: A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (Movie)
• 1994: Black Beauty (feature film)
• 1994–1995: Ain't Misbehavin '(TV series)
• 1995: Molly (TV series)
• 1995: Mole's Christmas (TV series, voice, multiple roles)
• 1995: Heavenly Bodies (6-part astronomy knowledge series, performing as himself)
• 1995: The Devil of Winterborne (movie)
• 1996: Ghosts of Winterborne (movie)
• 1996: Cuts (TV series)
• 1997: Dear Nobody (TV series)
• 1997: Harry Hill (TV show, performing as himself)
• 1997: Scene (TV series, episode "A Man of Letters")
• 1998: Jonathan Creek (TV series, episode "Danse Macabre")
• 1998: The Stalker's Apprentice (TV series)
• 1998: Verdict (TV series, episode "Be My Valentine")
• 1998: Sturmhöhe ( Wuthering Heights , TV movie)
• 1999: Hope and Glory (TV series, part 1)
• 1999: Parting Shots (feature film)
• 1999: The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (TV series)
• 2000: The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2000: It's Only TV… But I Like It (TV series, performing as himself)
• 2000–2003: At Home With The Braithwaites (TV series)
• 2003: Too Good to be True (TV series)
• 2003–2007: The Last Detective (TV series)
• 2004: Hardware (TV series, performing as himself)
• 2005–2008: Distant Shores (TV series)
• 2006: The Complete Guide to Parenting (TV series)
• 2007: The Wright Stuff (TV series, appeared as himself)
• 2007: Fear, Stress and Anger (TV series, with daughter Georgia Moffett )
• 2007: Agatha Christie's Marple (TV series, episode "At Bertram's Hotel")
• 2007: Time Crash (return to 5th doctor ; Doctor Who benefit minisode for Children in Need)
• 2008: Al Murray ’s Happy Hour (TV show, performing as himself)
• 2009: Unforgiven (TV series)
• 2009: Al Murray ’s Multiple Personality Disorder (TV series)
• 2009: Micro Men (TV series)
• 2009: Miranda (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2009: The Queen (TV documentary series, episode "The Rival")
• 2009: Inspector Barnaby ( Midsommer Murders , TV series, episode 12.03 "Athletes and Spies")
• 2010: Sherlock (TV series, episode 1.03 " Sherlock - The Big Game ", voice)
• 2011: New Tricks - The Crime Specialists ( New Tricks , TV series, episode "The End of the Line")
• 2011–2014: Law & Order: UK (TV series)
• 2013: Lewis (TV series, episodes "The Ramblin Boy I & II")
• 2013: Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor (TV show, guest appearance as himself)
• 2013: Doctor Who at the Proms (concert television broadcast, guest appearance as himself)
• 2013: Pat & Cabbage (TV series)
• 2013: The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot (short film for the 50th anniversary of the Doctor Who first broadcast, appearance as himself; also director and screenwriter)
• 2013: Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty (TV show)
• 2014: Death in Paradise (TV series, episode 3.02)
• 2014: Toast of London (TV series, episodes "The Moose Trap" and "High Winds Actor", appearing as himself)
• 2017: Sugar Free Farm (TV series, appeared as himself)
• 2017: Grantchester (TV series)
• 2017: Liar (TV series, episodes "I Know You're Lying" and "The White Rabbit")
• 2017: You, Me & Him
• 2019: Vera - A very special case (TV series, episode 9.1 "She knew too much")

Theater roles

year	piece	role	stage	Remarks
1972	Love's Labor's Lost	Mercade	Nottingham Playhouse
1972	fire	villager	Nottingham Playhouse
1972	Robin Hood	Robin Hood	Nottingham Playhouse
1972	The Three Musketeers	John Felton Guard	Nottingham Playhouse
1973	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	speed	Young Lyceum, Edinburgh
1973	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Alfred	Ledlanet House, Edinburgh
1973	Hamlet	Osric	Ledlanet House, Edinburgh
1973	Woyzeck		Young Lyceum, Edinburgh
1973	The Three Estates	soldier	Royal Lyceum Theater, Edinburgh
1973	The Taming of the Shrew	Tranio Grumio	Open Space Theater Touring Ensemble Netherlands
1974	A Narrow Road to the Deep North		Royal Lyceum Theater, Edinburgh
1974	Midsummer Night's Dream	Lysander	Leith Festival, Edinburgh
1980	Barefoot in the Park	Paul Bratter	Churchill Theater, Bromley
1982	Cinderella	Buttons	Assembly Hall Theater Tunbridge Wells
1984	Barefoot in the Park	Paul Bratter	Touring ensemble Great Britain
1986	The Owl and the Pussycat	Felix	Touring ensemble Great Britain
1991	Arsenic and Old Lace	Mortimer Brewster	Chichester Festival Theater
1992	The decorator		Yvonne Arnaud Theater
1992-1993	The Last Yankee	Leroy Hamilton	Young Vic Theater Duke of York's Theater
1994	To Absolute Turkey	Valetine	Gielgud Theater
1996	Dial M for Murder	Tony Wendice	Touring ensemble Great Britain
1997	Cinderella	Buttons	Arts Theater, Cambridge
1998-1999	Chicago	Amos Hart	Adelphi Theater
2001	Under the Doctor	Dr Jean-Pierre Moulineaux	Yvonne Arnaud Theater Comedy Theater, London
2007-2008	Spamalot	King Arthur	Palace Theater
2009–2012	Legally Blonde	Professor Calahan	Savoy Theater
2014	The Vertical Hour	Oliver Lucas	Park Theater
2015	Gypsy	Herbie	Savoy Theater

additional

Radio plays (radio and CD)

The name of the speaking role and the responsible audio book publisher or radio station are in brackets .

• 1985–1987: King Street Junior (Eric Brown; BBC Radio 4 ; seasons 1 and 2)
• 1995–1996: Change at Oglethorpe (David Clare; BBC Radio 2 )
• 1999: Sirens of Time ( The Doctor ; Big Finish Productions )
• 1999: Phantasmagoria (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2000: The Land of the Dead (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2000: Red Dawn (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2000: Winter for the Adept (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2000: The Mutant Phase: Dalek Empire, Part 3 (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2001: Loups-Garoux (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2001: Primeval (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2001: The Eye of the Scorpion (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2001: Excelis Dawns (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2002: Spare Parts (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2002: The Church and the Crown (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2003: Nekromanteia (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2003: Creatures of Beauty (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2003: Omega (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2003: Zagreus (Reverend Townsend; Big Finish)
• 2003: No Place Like Home (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2003–2006: Rigor Mortis (Dr. Anthony Webster; BBC Radio 4 )
• 2004: The Axis of Insanity (The Doctor; Big Finish )
• 2004: The Roof of the World (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2005: The Game (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2005: Three's a Crowd (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2005: The Council of Nicaea (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2005: Singularity (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2006: Nebulous (Professor Diplodocus; BBC Radio 4 )
• 2006: The Kingmaker (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2006: The Gathering (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2007: Circular Time (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2007: Renaissance of the Daleks (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2007: Exotron & Urban Myths (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2007: Son of the Dragon (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2007: Return to the Web Planet (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2007: The Mind's Eye (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2008: The Bride of Peladon (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2008: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Simon Draycott; BBC Radio 4 )
• 2008: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2008: The Boy That Time Forgot (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2008: Time Reef (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2008: A Perfect World (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2009: The Judgment of Isskar (Key 2 Time pt.1) (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2009: The Destroyer of Delights (Key 2 Time pt.2) (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2009: The Chaos Pool (Key 2 Time pt.3) (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2009: Castle of Fear (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2009: The Eternal Summer (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2009: Plague of the Daleks (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2010: Cobwebs (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2010: The Whispering Forest (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2010: The Cradle of the Snake (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2010: The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2011: Heroes of Sontar (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2011: Kiss of Death (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2011: Rat Trap (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2011: Hexagora (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2011: The Elite (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2011: The Children of Seth (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2012: The Four Companions (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2012: The Emerald Tiger (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2012: The Jupiter Conjunction (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2012: The Butcher of Brisbane (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2012: The Burning Prince (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2012: 1001 Nights (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2012–13: Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (Richard Lyons; BBC Radio 2 )
• 2013: The Lady of Mercia (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2013: Prisoners of Fate (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2013: Eldrad Must Die (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2013: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (The Doctor; Big Finish)
• 2013: The Light at the End (The Doctor; Big Finish)

Video games

• 1997: Destiny of the Doctors (voice of the doctor )
• 2015: Lego Dimensions (voice of the doctor, archive material used)

memoirs

• 2016: Is There Life Outside the Box? To Actor Despairs ; First published October 16, 2016 via John Blake Publishing; ISBN 978-1786061126 ; Preface by son-in-law David Tennant
  • Audiobook version , 2017: Narrator - Gordon Griffin; Publishing House - Soundings; unabridged; ISBN 978-1785026720

Web links

• Peter Davison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/474398/index.html (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sarah Doran: Yes, that is Doctor Who's Peter Davison in Grantchester . Radio Times . April 30, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
2. ↑ Peter Davison in the Internet Movie Database (English)