ACTOR

Peter Davison

1951 - Today

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Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Davison has received more than 5,544,052 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Peter Davison is the 4,389th most popular actor (down from 4,023rd in 2019), the 3,430th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,244th in 2019) and the 514th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Peter Davison ranks 4,389 out of 13,578. Before him are Nancy Kwan, Roger Blin, O. W. Fischer, Angie Bowie, Robert Preston, and Ole Ernst. After him are Louise Lasser, Kamal Haasan, Barry Humphries, Frank Silva, René Navarre, and Kim Joo-hyuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Peter Davison ranks 328. Before him are Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Lyudmila Narusova, Tom Wopat, Michel Aupetit, Charlie Dominici, and Dariush. After him are Bill Frisell, Debra Jo Rupp, Heinrich Schiff, Anatoly Alyabyev, Giovanni Battaglin, and V. S. Ramachandran.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Davison ranks 3,430 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), John O. Westwood (1805), Joe Jackson (1954), Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Stanley Spencer (1891), and E. L. James (1963). After him are Tony Martin (1957), Gerrard Winstanley (1609), Peter Molyneux (1959), Val McDermid (1955), Samantha Bond (1961), and Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Peter Davison ranks 514. Before him are Freddie Bartholomew (1924), Patrick Malahide (1945), Susan George (1950), Stanley Baker (1928), Ian Abercrombie (1934), and Stephen Moyer (1969). After him are Samantha Bond (1961), Jill Esmond (1908), Jane Lapotaire (1944), Jim Sturgess (1978), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), and Theo James (1984).

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Television and Movie Roles

Doctor Who
The Doctor
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (5) (archive footage)
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
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With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?
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