Peter Davison Bio, Age, Net Worth, Spouse, Children, Father, Movies

Publish date: 2024-05-17

Peter Davison Biography

Peter Davison (Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett) is an English actor. He has many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He is famously known as Tristan Farnon in the BBC’s television adaptation of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small stories. Apart from that, he has had subsequent starring roles.

They include: the sitcoms Holding the Fort and Sink or Swim, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who. In addition, he played as Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice and Albert Campion in Campion. He featured as David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, “Dangerous” Davies in The Last Detective and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.

Peter Davison attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first job was as an actor and assistant stage manager at the Nottingham Playhouse. He chose the stage name Peter Davison to avoid confusion with the actor and director Peter Moffatt. Later on, he worked with him.

His first television work was a 1975 episode of the children’s science fiction television programme The Tomorrow People. He played alongside American actress Sandra Dickinson, whom he married on 26 December 1978. In the mid-1970s, Peter Davison spent 18 months working in a tax office in Twickenham.

In 1976, he was offered a prominent role in the 13-segment TV miniseries Love for Lydia opposite a young Jeremy Irons. In 1978, Davison’s performance as the youthfully mischievous Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small made him a household name.

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Additionally, Davison appeared alongside Dickinson as the Dish of the Day in the television version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in 1981. Davison has also appeared in several British sitcoms, including: Holding the Fort (1980–82) and Sink or Swim (1980–82). He has also appeared in dramatic roles.

Peter Davison Age

Peter Davison was born in Streatham, London, United Kingdom. He was born on 13th April 1951. His current age is 68 years old as of 2019.

Peter Davison Net Worth

Peter Davison has made a huge fortune from his acting career. It is his main source of income. He has been active in the industry for a long time now.

His estimated net worth is approximately $ 3 million.

Peter Davison Father | Peter Davison Family

Peter Davison is the son to Claude and Sheila Moffett in Streatham, London. Claude, his father was originally from British Guiana (now Guyana). He worked as a radio engineer before opening a grocer’s shop. On the other hand, Sheila worked in intelligence during World War II before becoming a homemaker.

Davison had three sisters: Shirley, Pamela and Barbara. While in Streatham, he attended Granton Primary School. Later on, the family moved to Knaphill in Surrey.

Peter Davison Spouse

Peter Davison has been married three times. He first married in 1973. His first wife was Diane J. Russell. They stayed in marriage for only two years. In 1975, they separated and divorced. We do not have information whether they had any child together.

Three years after his divorce, he married again. He married Sandra Dickinson. She is an American-British actress. Their marriage got bitter and they divorced in 1994. The two have a daughter, Georgia Moffett. She was born in 1984 and is an actress.

Peter Davison married his third wife, Elizabeth Morton, in 2003. She is an actress and writer. The couple is blessed with two sons. Their firstborn is Louis born in 1999. Joel, their second born was born in 2001. They both appeared in The Five(ish) Doctors playing themselves.

Peter Davison Daughter | Peter Davison Children | Peter Davison Son

Peter Davison has three children. He has one daughter and two sons. His daughter is the firstborn. She was born from his second marriage with Sandra Dickson. She is Georgia Moffett. Georgia took on the acting career like her mother and father. In December 2011, Georgia Moffett married actor David Tennant. He played the Tenth Doctor. They have five children together.

Peter Davison has two sons, Louis Davison and Joel Moffett. The two brothers are also actors. Louis made his professional theatrical acting debut aged 14. He played as Prince Edward in the 2014 Trafalgar Studios stage production of Richard III. His brother Joel also made his theatrical debut aged 13 in the summer of 2014.

He starred as Jack in The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Louis Davison also plays the part of Victor in Tim Burton’s film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. He also appeared as Parker Whitfield in BBC One’s Holby City. Joel Davison played Lord Heybrook in French Without Tears at The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.

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Peter Davison Interview

Q: You come over to America to do conventions fairly often. Do you enjoy coming over?

Peter Davison: Yeah, I mean it’s a work experience. When we first started doing conventions, many years ago, all the actors leapt at it, the chance to visit and do the conventions, but in many ways it’s harder work than doing the job, because there you’re playing a part, here you’re having to be yourself. Some of us aren’t that good at that. (laughs) We prefer to hide behind the mask of whoever we’re playing.

Q: Do fans ask you about other work you’ve done, such as ‘Campion’ and ‘All Creatures Great and Small’?

Peter Davison: Well they ask about things they’ve seen, and the first thing they’ve seen over here (in the US) is ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, so yes, they definitely do. And also ‘Campion’, which came out under the ‘Mystery Theatre’ heading. They’re always interested in other work I’ve been doing, although I was very fortunate in the early years that I was doing a lot of stuff that was shown in America, I’ve been doing a lot of television stuff more recently that hasn’t normally appeared on American TV.

Q: You left ‘Doctor Who’ around eighteen years ago, and you’ve had an incredibly versatile career in stage and television, and even some film. If things were very different and they were making ‘Doctor Who’ now, and they only now approached you for it, how might your choices be different?

Peter Davison: Well I’m still playing him in a way. I’ve no idea, is the answer… I’d be less youthful, is the honest answer, I wouldn’t be running down the corridors quite so quickly.

Q: Wiser?

Peter Davison: Yes. I thought the way I’m doing it on the audio CD’s, although I’ve not consciously made it different to how I was playing the Doctor in the series, it’s necessarily different, because you do grow older.

Q: Let’s talk about the audios for a moment. After you left the show, you must have known there would always be fan interest, conventions and things, but in your wildest imaginings did you think there’d be books and audios and conventions still going on?

Peter Davison: Well the audios very definitely fill a gap. I didn’t do anything connected with ‘Doctor Who’ while the programme was being made because I didn’t want to, really. I mean the thing about the audios is I think they fill a gap, and in the absence of the programme being made, which I think’s a shame, it’s nice to give the fans something. I think if another Doctor took over, if the TV series was back on and another Doctor took over, I think I’d probably stop doing the audio CD’s. I think there wouldn’t be a need for it, and I’d feel that I was stepping on another person’s toes. In a sense it fits in perfectly because all the Doctors are ex-Doctors, so we can all do our audio CD’s.

Q: Do you feel that the quality of the scripts gives you a chance to stretch…

Peter Davison: No, I think they give the writers an opportunity to stretch, I don’t think they give the actors an opportunity to stretch, I mean I don’t think you can stretch the part of the Doctor very much, but they give the writers an enormous opportunity because of course you can deal in any budget you like in audio, you can put yourself in extraordinary scenes and conjure it up simply by the sound effects and the acting. From that point of view, it’s marvellous for the writes, because they can do whatever they want.

Q: Do you enjoy working on the audios because there’s no make-up, you don’t have to wear the costume…

Peter Davison: Well it’s mainly that you don’t have to learn the lines. You can go in there with the script, I mean obviously you have to research it, read it a couple of times, but what I like is that it’s instant, and you can get tremendous energy on the audio CD’s.

Q: Let’s talk a little bit about the work you’re doing now, the projects you’re involved in these days…

Peter Davison: Well I’ve got a couple of things going, there’s a series that’s been running at home for about four years, which is called ‘At Home With the Braithwaites’, which is about a family that wins £38m on the lottery, and how it affects them, and I play the father in that. And then recently I’ve made a series called ‘The Last Detective’, a detective show, hour-and-a-half shows, that’s currently airing in Britain.

Q: Among your contemporaries, because you do some stage work, do you get some teasing that you’re in not just one but several shows that have strong fan followings?

Peter Davison: Well I’ve always been teased by people who’ve perceived me as working far too much. So yeah, I mean, when I was doing ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘All Creatures…’ and a couple of comedy series, I was on virtually every night of the week. And then I had, after ‘Campion’ and ‘A Very Peculiar Practice’, for me, a sort of quiet patch.

But in other peoples’ terms it wasn’t a quiet patch at all, I was still making televisions shows and one-off programmes, and now I’m doing lots of stuff again, so I feel a bit fortunate, maybe I should hand over a few of the roles to other people but I don’t feel inclined to do that. I think the secret is that I’ve been able to move easily from one genre to another. A lot of actors get unfairly stuck in sitcoms, or very serious drama, or soap operas, and I’ve managed to dodge from one thing to another.

Q: When you took the role in ‘Doctor Who’, you’ve said that Patrick Troughton advised you to limit the amount of time you played Dr. Who, to avoid typecasting. Do you think that was good advice?

Peter Davison: Yes, I very definitely had a choice to do a fourth year of ‘Doctor Who’ or leave after three, and it was a close call, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that I would leave after three. I wasn’t very happy with season two of my time, we were beset by money problems and strike problems, and had I been happy at the end of season two, which was really when I had to make a decision, I might well have gone on and done a fourth season, but I don’t think that would have been the right thing to do.

I mean, when I left ‘Doctor Who’ I went up for a very good part in a BBC2 classics serial and I know there was much discussion about whether I should be offered the part because I’d just done ‘Doctor Who’, and that was something that would have got worse had I done ‘Doctor Who’ for longer. I mean fortunately they did offer it to me, but I was very aware that if you stick to long to something it just takes longer to recover from it, and I think Tom found that.

SOURCE: drwhointerviews.wordpress.com

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