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Fourteen actors have portrayed The Doctor in a leading role in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The series' protagonist , the Doctor is an extraterrestrial Time Lord . The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the narrative through the plot device of regeneration , which allows Time Lords a change of ...
Peter Dougan Capaldi (/ k ə ˈ p æ l d i /; [1] born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.
Jameson was replaced by Mary Tamm, who played Romana, a Time Lady and one of the Doctor's own species. Tamm stayed on for just one season before her character regenerated in Destiny of the Daleks and was portrayed by Lalla Ward. Baker, Ward and Leeson were joined by Matthew Waterhouse, the actor who played Adric, in Full Circle.
Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett [1] (born 13 April 1951), known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor. 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.
Peter Capaldi portrays the Twelfth Doctor. Matt Smith, who played the Eleventh Doctor, publicly announced his departure from Doctor Who on 1 June 2013, [1] triggering extensive media speculation on the subject of his successor. [2] On 3 August 2013, bookmakers William Hill suspended betting when Capaldi became the five to six favourite to be ...
Peter Bryant (27 October 1923 – 19 May 2006) [2] was an English television producer, script editor and former actor. He acted in The Grove Family as a regular cast member and later became the producer of Doctor Who from 1967 to 1969 during Patrick Troughton's tenure as the Second Doctor.
Peter John Purves (/ ˈ p ɜːr v ɪ s /; born 10 February 1939) is an English television presenter and actor. Beginning his career as an actor, he joined Doctor Who to play Steven Taylor , a companion of the First Doctor , which he played from 1965 until 1966.
Peter Miles (29 August 1928 – 26 February 2018) was an English actor. He played many television roles including several different characters in Z-Cars and Doctor Who . His other television work included Blake's 7 , Survivors , The Sweeney , Dixon of Dock Green , Moonbase 3 , Poldark and Bergerac .