Happy Birthday Peter Davison! We might now him as the Fifth Doctor, with his white cricket jacket, Panama hat, and carrying a stalk of celery in his pocket. He started out playing an alien, Elmer, in a 1975 episode of the sci fi show The Tomorrow People. He had a long running part as Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small based on the James Herriot books. Davison’s run was from 1978 to 1980, then specials in 1983, 1985, and regular part from 1988 to 1990. He was also in tv series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy playing Dish of the Day in a 1981 episode.
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| Peter Davison, at Gen Con, 2013, photo by the author. |
Davison moved on to take the role of The Doctor with a youthful crew of Companions from 1981 to 1984. He played the artistocratic detective Albert Campion in Mystery!: Campion (1989-1990). In 1994, Davison voiced Mole in the animated The Adventures of Mole based on the character from The Wind in the Willows. It was in 2007 that he returned as The Doctor meeting David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor in Time Crash. He was Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK (2011-2014). Recently, Davison plays William Priestley on the show Gentleman Jack. Happy Birthday Peter Davison!
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