Peter Davison
Birthday- April 13, 1951
Birth Place- Peter Moffett, London
Fifth Doctor- Portrayed by Peter Davison
Fifth Doctor- The fifth doctor exhibits most limited aspect of personality compared to all his previous incarnations. This time the scientific accuracy is more concentrated upon than the silly humor and individual eccentricities. He keeps on traveling into future and past and encounters villains like Monarch and the Mara. This doctor is vulnerable, sensitive and reserved instead of being funny. His appearance helps him to conceal the fact that he is a Time Lord of great age, compassion and experience. He has been shown as the most courageous of all the previous incarnations. He is not afraid of taking chances. The fifth doctor regenerates into sixth incarnation in a strange way. His last companion Peri Brown is exposed to the drug spectrox in its fatal lethal raw form on Androzani Minor. As only one dose of antidote is on hand, so he forfeits his life to save Peri and regenerates into the sixth doctor.
Life and Career- He is an English actor best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in “all Creatures Great and Small” and as fifth incarnation of the Doctor in “Doctor Who“. After studies, he took up a number of odd jobs including that of a mortuary attendant before stepping into acting. His first acting job was as an actor and an assistant stage manager at the Nottingham Playhouse. His first TV role was in “The Tomorrow People” opposite American Actress Sandra Dickinson, whom he later married, in 1978. He also appeared with her in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in 1981. They divorced in 1994.
Besides these, he has worked in TV miniseries “Love for Lydia”, “Holding the Fort”, “Sink or Swim” and “Ain’t Misbehavin’”. But he became popular after joining “All Creatures Great and Small” in 1978.
Then he got another popular role as Doctor in “Doctor Who” in 1981. He got this role due to his performance in “All Creatures Great and Small”. Finally, he didn’t renew his contract with the show due to fear of being a typecast. Apart from the series, he has also appeared in 1993’s multi-doctor charity special “Dimensions in Time” and in video game “Destiny of the Doctors” in 1997. He also appeared in the special episode titled “Time Crash”.
After leaving “Doctor Who”, he didn’t get any significant role until two years. After that he joined “A Very Peculiar Practice” in the lead role. After several years, this series was revived as “A Very Polish Practice”. After that he got lead roles in “Campion”, “Fiddlers Three” and “Harnessing Peacocks”. He has also appeared in “at Home with the Braithwaites”, “King Street Junior”, “The Last Detective”, “Distant Shores”, “Nebulous” and many more.
His theatre works include “Arsenic and Old Lace”, “The Last Yankee”, “an Absolute Turkey” and “Under the Doctor”. In 2003, he starred in “the Last Detective” and BBC comedy “Fear, Stress and Anger”. He has also played King Arthur in London production of “Spamalot”. In March 2008, he has appeared in Al Murray’s
Happy Hour. He will be appearing in “Midsomer Murders”, which will be broadcasted in the late 2008 or in early 2009.