For other people named Peter Davison, see Peter Davison (disambiguation).
Peter Davison
Davison in 2016
Born
Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett
(1951-04-13) 13 April 1951 (age 73)
Streatham, London, England
Alma mater
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1975–present
Known for
Fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who
Spouses
Diane J. Russell
(m. 1973; div. 1975)
Sandra Dickinson
(m. 1978; div. 1994)
Elizabeth Morton
(m. 2003)
Children
3, including Georgia Tennant and Louis Davison
Relatives
David Tennant (son-in-law) Ty Tennant (grandson)
Peter Davison's voice
Davison gives his thoughts on casting a female Doctor for Doctor Who Recorded 23 January 2018
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Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett[1] (born 13 April 1951), known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor with credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He made his television acting debut in 1975 and became famous in 1978 as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories. He subsequently played the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who from 1981 to 1984.
Davison's other starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort (1980–1982) and Sink or Swim (1980–1982), Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988) and Albert Campion in Campion (1989–1990). He also played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003), "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective (2003–2007) and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK (2011–2014).
^GRO Register of Births: JUN 1951, 5c 47, Battersea, Peter M. G. Moffett, mother's maiden surname Hallett
Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett (born 13 April 1951), known professionally as PeterDavison, is an English actor with credits in television dramas and sitcoms...
British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by PeterDavison. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time...
His maternal grandparents are actors PeterDavison and Sandra Dickinson. He is of Guyanese descent through Davison's father, and Finnish descent through...
seven years in the role, Baker was replaced by PeterDavison in 1981, and Colin Baker replaced Davison in 1984. In 1985, the channel's controller Michael...
Baker made his first appearance in Doctor Who as Commander Maxil in the PeterDavison-era story Arc of Infinity (1983). He then became the second of three...
Peter Wright. He had hoped to do so for the tenth series as well, but was self-isolating owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. PeterDavison was...
girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with PeterDavison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star. In her own words, she tends to...
Hammersmith, West London, the daughter of actors Peter Moffett (known by his stage name, PeterDavison) and Sandra Dickinson. She has two half brothers...
comedy starring PeterDavison, Patricia Hodge and Matthew Kelly. The situation was a role-reversal comedy in which Russell Milburn (Davison) becomes a 'house-husband'...
Thomas and a TV series, The Last Detective made for ITV and starring PeterDavison. The first novel in the series had earlier been made into a film for...
anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot directed by PeterDavison. In October 2015, Big Finish Productions announced that Tennant would...
Holby City, Uncle, Doctors and White Van Man. Dickinson married actor PeterDavison on December 26, 1978, and they were divorced in 1994. Together they...
ISBN 978-1-9994395-0-7. Davison, P. (1996). George Orwell: A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-0-230-37140-8. Davison, Peter (2000). "George Orwell:...
the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), he is followed by the Fifth Doctor (PeterDavison). Baker portrays the Fourth Doctor as a whimsical and sometimes brooding...
1968–1970. PeterDavison of De Montfort University spent 17 years researching and correcting the entirety of Orwell's works with Angus and Sheila Davison, and...
previous incarnations. Preceded in regeneration by the Fifth Doctor (PeterDavison), he is followed by the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy). The Sixth...
android-builder Sharaz Jek (Christopher Gable). The Caves of Androzani was PeterDavison's last regular appearance as the Fifth Doctor, marked the first appearance...
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