# Patrick Troughton

Patrick George Troughton (/ˈtraʊtən/; 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He became best known for his roles in television, most notably starring as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role three times between 1972 and 1985. Classically trained, Troughton's early work included appearances in Laurence Olivier's films Hamlet (1948) and Richard III (1955), and he later appeared in films including Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Gorgon (1964), Scars of Dracula (1970) and The Omen (1976), as well as the fantasy television series The Box of Delights (1984).

## Early life

Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England, to Alec George Troughton (1887–1953), a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord (1886–1979), who married in 1914 in Edmonton. Patrick had an elder brother, Alec Robert (1915–1994), and a younger sister, Mary Edith (1923–2005). Troughton attended Mill Hill School and continued to live in Mill Hill for most of his life. While at Mill Hill School, he acted in a production of J. B. Priestley's Bees on the Boat Deck in March 1937.
Troughton studied at the Embassy School of Acting at Swiss Cottage, being tutored by Eileen Thorndike. He was later awarded an acting scholarship at the Leighton Rallius Studios at the John Drew Memorial Theatre on Long Island, New York, in the United States.
When the Second World War broke out, he abandoned his studies in the U.S. and returned to Great Britain to enlist. During the passage across the North Atlantic Ocean, the ship carrying him struck a sea mine off the coast of Britain, from which he escaped in a lifeboat as the vessel foundered. On arrival back in England, whilst waiting to join the Armed Forces, he briefly worked with the Tonbridge Repertory Company.
In 1940, Troughton enlisted with the Royal Navy, receiving a commission with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in November 1941. He was deployed on East Coast Convoy duty from February to August 1941, and then with Coastal Forces' Motor Gun Boats based at Great Yarmouth from November 1942 to 1945, operating in the North Sea and English Channel. During his service with the MGBs, he was on one occasion involved in an action against Kriegsmarine E-boats which resulted in one of the enemy craft being destroyed by ramming, whilst Troughton's boat and another destroyed two more with their gunfire. His decorations included the 1939–45 Star, the Atlantic Star, and he was mentioned in dispatches "for outstanding courage, leadership and skill in many daring attacks on enemy shipping in hostile waters". He used to wear a tea cosy on his head in cold weather in the North Sea.

## Career
### Early career

After demobilisation, Troughton returned to the theatre. He worked with the Amersham Repertory Company, the Bristol Old Vic Company and the Pilgrim Players at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate. He made his television debut in 1947. In 1948, Troughton made his cinema debut with small roles in Olivier's Hamlet, the Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed Escape (one of the stars of which was First Doctor actor William Hartnell), and a minor role as a pirate in Disney's Treasure Island (1950), appearing only during the attack on the heroes' hut. Television, though, was his favourite medium. In 1953, he became the first actor to play the folk hero Robin Hood on television, starring in six half-hour episodes broadcast from 17 March to 21 April on the BBC, and titled simply Robin Hood. Troughton would also make several appearances in The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene. He appeared as the murderer Tyrrell in Olivier's film of Richard III (1955). He was also Olivier's stand-in on the film and appears in many long shots as Richard.
Troughton's other notable film and television roles included Kettle in Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1955), Vickers in the episode entitled "Strange Partners" in The Invisible Man (1958, the series also featured one of his future Doctor Who co-stars, Deborah Watling, as Sally), Phineus in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Paul of Tarsus (BBC 1960, title role), Dr. Finlay's Casebook (BBC 1962, semi-regular), and Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop (1962–63). He voiced Winston Smith in a 1965 BBC Home Service radio adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Prior to Doctor Who he appeared in numerous TV shows, including The Count of Monte Cristo, Ivanhoe, Dial 999, Danger Man, Maigret, Compact, The Third Man, Crane, Detective, Sherlock Holmes, No Hiding Place, The Saint, Armchair Theatre, The Wednesday Play, Z-Cars, Adam Adamant Lives! and Softly, Softly.
Troughton was offered the part of Johnny Ringo in the Doctor Who story The Gunfighters but turned it down.

### Doctor Who

In 1966, Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd looked for a replacement for William Hartnell in the series' lead role. The continued survival of the show depended on audiences accepting another actor in the role, despite the bold decision that the replacement would not be a Hartnell lookalike or soundalike. Lloyd later stated that Hartnell had approved of the choice, saying, "There's only one man in England who can take over, and that's Patrick Troughton". Lloyd chose Troughton because of his extensive and versatile experience as a character actor. After he was cast, Troughton considered various ways to approach the role, to differentiate his portrayal from Hartnell's amiable-yet-tetchy patriarch. Troughton's early thoughts about how he might play the Doctor included a "tough sea captain", and a piratical figure in blackface and turban. Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman suggested that the Doctor could be a "cosmic hobo" in the mould of Charlie Chaplin, and this was the interpretation eventually chosen. Troughton was the first Doctor to have his face appear in the opening titles of the show. In one serial, The Enemy of the World, Troughton played two parts: as the protagonist (The Doctor) and the antagonist (Salamander).
During his time on the series, Troughton tended to shun publicity and rarely gave interviews. He told one interviewer, "I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it". Years later, he told another interviewer that his greatest concern was that too much publicity would limit his opportunities as a character actor after he left the role.
In a rare interview with Ernest Thompson from Radio Times, Troughton revealed that he "always liked dressing up, and would have been happy as a school teacher as children keep one young". Troughton was popular with both the production team and his co-stars. Producer Lloyd credited Troughton with a "leading actor's temperament. He was a father figure to the whole company and hence could embrace it and sweep it along with him". Troughton also gained a reputation on set as a practical joker.
Many of the early episodes in which Troughton appeared were among those discarded by the BBC. Troughton found Doctor Who's schedule (at the time, 40 to 44 episodes per year) gruelling, and decided to leave the series in 1969, after three years in the role. This decision was also motivated in part by fear of being typecast.
Troughton returned to Doctor Who three times after formally leaving the programme. The first of these occasions was in The Three Doctors, the 1972–73 serial opening the programme's 10th series. In 1983, Troughton overcame some reluctance to reprise his role and agreed to appear in the 20th-anniversary special "The Five Doctors" at the request of series producer John Nathan-Turner. He also agreed to attend Doctor Who conventions, including the show's 20th anniversary celebrations at Longleat in 1983. He also appeared around the world with Nathan-Turner. Troughton enjoyed the return to the programme so much that he readily agreed to appear one more time as the Second Doctor, with Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor in The Two Doctors (1985). Reportedly, he also advised Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison to limit his time in the role to three series to avoid typecasting and the younger actor followed this advice.
In 2013, the BBC commissioned a docudrama about the early days of Doctor Who, as part of the programme's fiftieth-anniversary celebrations. Troughton appears as a character in the production, called An Adventure in Space and Time, portrayed by actor Reece Shearsmith.
In 2014's "Robot of Sherwood", a still image of Troughton from 1953 appears among the future depictions of Robin Hood displayed by the Twelfth Doctor to the outlaw.

### Later career

After Troughton left Doctor Who in 1969, he appeared in various films and television roles. Film roles included Clove in Scars of Dracula (1970), a bodysnatcher in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973), Father Brennan in The Omen (1976) and Melanthius in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) (for which he commenced rehearsals just one week after completing his final studio recording on Doctor Who), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent (1976–78), a guest-starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode "The Baddies", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Task Force, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh (Series 2 Episode 9), Nanny and Minder (in a March 1984 episode titled "Windows", Season 4 Episode 9). He also portrayed Cole Hawlings in a BBC Television dramatisation of the John Masefield children's book The Box of Delights (1984). In the same year he also appeared in a Two Ronnies Christmas Special playing a judge.
Troughton's health was never completely robust due to heavy drinking and smoking (he had quit smoking in the 1960s, but the damage had already been done). Later in his life he refused to accept his doctor's advice after he had developed a serious heart condition through overwork and stress. He suffered two major heart attacks, one in 1979 and the other in 1984, both of which prevented him from working for several months afterwards. Following each of these attacks, his doctor's warnings were again ignored, as Troughton committed himself to a heavy TV and film schedule.
Troughton featured in the 1974 11-part radio adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour. In 1986, he was a regular in the first series of the LWT sitcom The Two of Us, and guested in an episode of Super Gran in May 1987, which was the last role he filmed. His final television appearance was in the autumn of the same year in Knights of God, which had been filmed two years earlier. Troughton also appeared in the first episode of Central Independent Television's Inspector Morse, entitled "The Dead of Jericho", which was originally transmitted on ITV on 6 January 1987.

## Personal life

Troughton married his first wife, Margaret Dunlop, at the Union Church at Mill Hill on 3 September 1943.
Troughton started living a double life when, just after the birth of his third child in 1955, he chose to leave Dunlop and their three children (then aged eight, five, and a few months) to live with girlfriend Ethel Margaret "Bunny" Nuens, with whom he also went on to have three children. Troughton maintained a deception of having stayed with his original family that was so successful that his own mother died unaware of the separation in 1979, 24 years after Troughton had left Dunlop. Because of the disastrous drama Troughton caused during his divorce from Dunlop, his first daughter, Joanna, vowed never to speak to her father again. Their differences remained unresolved at the time of his death in 1987. While Troughton never married Nuens, in 1976 he did marry Shelagh Holdup and acquired two stepchildren.
Troughton's six children are:
* Joanna Troughton (born 1947, to Troughton and Dunlop), author and illustrator of children's books
* David Troughton (born 1950, to Troughton and Dunlop), actor
* Michael Troughton (born 1955, to Troughton and Dunlop), actor
* Jane Troughton (born 1956, to Troughton and Nuens)
* Peter Troughton (born 1957, to Troughton and Nuens)
* Mark Troughton (born 1959, to Troughton and Nuens)
Troughton's grandchildren include:
* Sam Troughton (son of David Troughton), an actor, known for Robin Hood.
* Jim Troughton (son of David Troughton), played professional cricket for England and Warwickshire
* William Troughton (son of David Troughton), an actor who plays Tom Archer in The Archers
* Harry Melling (son of Joanna Troughton), an actor, known for Dudley Dursley

## Death

On 27 March 1987, two days after his 67th birthday, Troughton was a guest at the Magnum Opus Con II science fiction convention in Columbus, Georgia, United States. Although he had been warned by his doctors before leaving the United Kingdom not to exert himself because of his heart condition, he appeared to be in good spirits and participated vigorously in the day's panels, and was looking forward to a belated birthday celebration which was planned for that evening, as well as screenings of all of his surviving complete Doctor Who stories, including The Dominators, which he was particularly eager to see again. Troughton suffered a third and final heart attack at 7:25 am on 28 March, just after ordering breakfast from the hotel. According to the paramedics who attended the scene, he died instantly.
Troughton was certified dead at the Medical Center (now Piedmont Columbus Regional) in Columbus, Georgia. After a local cremation, his ashes were flown back to England. During the passage to England, the ashes were mislaid temporarily. This delayed his funeral by a few weeks. His widow, Shelagh, later scattered them beneath a newly planted tree in Bushy Park, a favourite place of Troughton's near to his family home in Teddington.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1948 | Escape | Jim the Shepherd | |
| 1948 | Hamlet | Player King | |
| 1948 | The Red Shoes | BBC Radio Announcer | voice, uncredited |
| 1949 | Badger's Green | Jim Carter | |
| 1949 | Cardboard Cavalier | Executed Man | uncredited |
| 1950 | Chance of a Lifetime | William Kettle | |
| 1950 | Treasure Island | Roach | |
| 1950 | Waterfront | Sam | uncredited |
| 1950 | The Woman with No Name | Colin | |
| 1951 | The Franchise Affair | Bill Brough | |
| 1951 | White Corridors | Sailor | |
| 1954 | The Black Knight | King Mark | |
| 1955 | Richard III | Tyrell | |
| 1956 | 1984 | Man on Telescreen | uncredited |
| 1957 | The Curse of Frankenstein | Mortuary attendant | uncredited (deleted scenes) |
| 1958 | The Moonraker | Captain Wilcox | |
| 1962 | The Phantom of the Opera | The Rat Catcher | |
| 1963 | Jason and the Argonauts | Phineus | |
| 1964 | The Gorgon | Inspector Kanof | |
| 1964 | The Black Torment | Ostler – Regis | |
| 1967 | The Viking Queen | Tristram | |
| 1970 | Scars of Dracula | Klove | |
| 1974 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Bodysnatcher | |
| 1976 | The Omen | Father Brennan | |
| 1977 | Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Melanthius | |
| 1978 | A Hitch in Time | Professor Wagstaff | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1947 | Hamlet | Horatio | TV film |
| 1947 | Edward II | Baldock | TV film |
| 1948 | King Lear | Edmund | TV film |
| 1948 | R.U.R. | Radius, a robot | TV film |
| 1949 | Macbeth | Seyton | TV film |
| 1950 | The Whole World Over | Nicolai Nekin | TV film |
| 1950 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Ptolemy Downing | Episode: "Adventure Story" Episode: "The Family Reunion" |
| 1952 | Kidnapped | Alan Breck | 5 episodes |
| 1952 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Capt. Johnnie Brown | Episode: "Lines of Communication" |
| 1953 | Robin Hood | Robin Hood | 6 episodes |
| 1954 | Misalliance | Uncredited | TV film |
| 1954 | Clementina | Charles Wogan | 6 episodes |
| 1955 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Sanchez | Episode: "Midsummer Fire" |
| 1956 | Kidnapped | Alan Breck | TV film |
| 1956 | The Count of Monte Cristo | The Ferret Branza Marcel | Episode: "The Island" Episode: "The Portuguese Affair" Episode: "Marseilles" |
| 1956 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Sir Andrew Ffoulkes | 15 episodes |
| 1956 | One Family | The Tarman | 2 episodes |
| 1956 | Theatre Royal | Tailor | Episode: "The Ends of Justice" |
| 1956 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Cardinal Wolsey | Episode: "The White Falcon" |
| 1956 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Constable | Episode: "The Friar's Pilgrimage" |
| 1957 | Ordeal by Fire | La Hire | TV film |
| 1957 | Precious Bane | Gideon Sarn | 6 episodes |
| 1957 | Assignment Foreign Legion | Nadeau | Episode: "The Conquering Hero" |
| 1957 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Seneschal Raoul Traveller Seneschal Sir William Fitzwalter | Episode: "Food for Thought" Episode: "The Bandit of Brittany" Episode: "The Shell Game" Episode: "The Blackbird" Episode: "The Dream" |
| 1957 | Sword of Freedom | Bastiano Duke Di Luca Cecci | Episode: "Vespucci" Episode: "The Tower" Episode: "The Ambassador" |
| 1958 | The Adventures of William Tell | Hanzler | Episode: "The Golden Wheel" |
| 1958 | The Rebel Heiress | Roger Trevanion | TV film |
| 1958 | Queen's Champion | Don Alonzo | Episode: "The Edge of Defeat" |
| 1958 | Ivanhoe | Vignole | Episode: "The Kidnapping" |
| 1958 | The Dangerous Game | Philip Baker | Episode: "Pawns in the Game" |
| 1958 | The New Adventures of Charlie Chan | Pete Wilson | Episode: "Something Old, Something New" |
| 1958 | Sword of Freedom | Teofilo | Episode: "The School" |
| 1958 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Sir Boland | Episode: "Elixir of Youth" |
| 1958 | Armchair Theatre | Ragnar Brovik | Episode: "The Master Builder" |
| 1959 | Three Golden Nobles | Mad Peter | Episode: "The Painter" |
| 1959 | The History of Mr. Polly | Uncle Jim | 2 episodes |
| 1959 | H.G.Wells' Invisible Man | Vickers – Currie's Business Partner | Episode: "Strange Partners" |
| 1959 | Interpol Calling | Sukru | Episode: "The Thirteen Innocents" |
| 1959 | The Moonstone | Dark Stranger | 1 episode |
| 1959 | The Naked Lady | Bob Dyson | 2 episodes |
| 1959 | The Hill | Jesus | TV film (voice) |
| 1959 | The Scarf | Edward Collins | 3 episodes |
| 1959 | The Cabin in the Clearing | Simon Kenton | 4 episodes |
| 1959 | Dial 999 (TV series) | Bill Mace Tramp George | Episode: "Thames Division" Episode: "50,000 Hands" Episode: "Key Witness" |
| 1959 | The Flying Doctor | Ernie | Episode: "A Stranger in Distress" |
| 1959 | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | Barman | Episode: "Maigret and the Lost Life" |
| 1959 | ITV Television Playhouse | Dermot Francis O'Flingsley | Episode: "Shadow and Substance" |
| 1959 | The Four Just Men | Inspector Nardi | Episode: "The Night of the Precious Stones" |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place | Blakey | Episode: "The Stalag Story" |
| 1960 | International Detective | Silversmith | Episode: "The Marino Case" |
| 1960 | Danger Man | Brenner | Episode: "The Lonely Chair" |
| 1960 | Paul of Tarsus | Saul Paul | Episode: "The Feast of Pentecost" Episode: "To the Gentiles" |
| 1960 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Sir Fulke Devereaux | Episode: "The Bagpiper" |
| 1960 | The Four Just Men | Vito | Episode: "The Moment of Truth" |
| 1960 | The True Mystery of the Passion | Judas | TV film |
| 1960 | The Splendid Spur | Captain Luke Settle | 6 episodes |
| 1960 | The Terrible Choice | Lucifer | 2 episodes |
| 1960 | BBC Sunday-Night Play | 2nd Engineer | Episode: "Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play" |
| 1960 | No Hiding Place | Percy Clarke | Episode: "Two Blind Mice" |
| 1961 | Maigret | Gaston Meurant | Episode: "Raise Your Right Hand" |
| 1961 | ITV Television Playhouse | J.J. | Episode: "A Walk on the Water" |
| 1961 | International Detective | Bela Davos | Episode: "The Martos Case" |
| 1961 | Danger Man | Bart | Episode: "Bury the Dead" |
| 1961 | No Hiding Place | Denger Wells | Episode: "Process of Elimination" |
| 1961 | ITV Play of the Week | Spicer | Episode: "Soldier in the Snow" |
| 1962 | The Sword in the Web | Tournay | Episode: "The Alibi" |
| 1962 | Harpers West One | Notril | 1 episode |
| 1962 | Man of the World | Thiboeuf | Episode: "Death of a Conference" |
| 1962 | BBC Sunday-Night Play | Du Bose | Episode: "Sword of Vengeance" |
| 1962 | Wuthering Heights | Hindley | TV film |
| 1962 | Compact | Eddie Eddie Goldsmith | Episode: "Musical Evening" Episode: "Efficiency Expert" |
| 1962 | Sir Francis Drake | Gazio | Episode: "The Bridge" |
| 1962 | ITV Play of the Week | Prince | Episode: "Freedom in September" |
| 1962 | Dr. Finlay's Casebook | Alex Dean | Episode: "Snap Diagnosis" |
| 1962–63 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Daniel Quilp | 11 episodes |
| 1963 | The Sentimental Agent | Sheikh | Episode: "The Scroll of Islam" |
| 1963 | Espionage | John MacBride | Episode: "He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday" |
| 1963 | No Cloak – No Dagger | Trev | |
| 1963 | Lorna Doone | Judge Jeffreys | Episode: "A Summons to London" |
| 1964 | The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling | Mr. Bronckhurst | Episode: "The Bronckhurst Divorce Case11" |
| 1964 | Artists' Notebooks | William Hogarth | Episode: "William Hogarth (1697–1764)" |
| 1964 | HMS Paradise | Capt. Ahab Rudlow | Episode: "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Holes" |
| 1964 | Thorndyke | Frank Belfield | Episode: "The Old Lag" |
| 1964 | Smuggler's Bay | Ratsey | 5 episodes |
| 1964 | The Third Man | Luigi Carvossa | Episode: "A Question in Ice" |
| 1964 | Detective | Jasper Shrig | Episode: "The Loring Mystery" |
| 1964 | The Midnight Men | Skoder | Episode: "The Man from Miditz" |
| 1964 | Crane | Hugo Krantz | Episode: "Man Without a Past" |
| 1964 | The Saint | Police Inspector | Episode: "The Romantic Matron" |
| 1964 | Z-Cars | Jack Carter | Episode: "Inside Job" |
| 1964–66 | Dr. Finlay's Casebook | Miller/Mr. Miller | 5 episodes |
| 1965 | No Hiding Place | Old Starr | Episode: "The Street" |
| 1965 | A Tale of Two Cities | Dr. Manette | 10 episodes |
| 1965 | The Wednesday Play | Lord Fountain | Episode: "And Did Those Feet?" |
| 1965 | Sherlock Holmes | Mortimer Tregennis | Episode: "Episode: The Devil's Foot" |
| 1965 | ITV Play of the Week | Manservant Tomazo | Episode: "The Misunderstanding" Episode: "The Challenging" |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Stuart Pendleton | Episode: "Give the Clown His Supper" |
| 1966 | Adam Adamant Lives! | General Mongerson | Episode: "D for Destruction" |
| 1966 | The Saint | Insp. Gambetti | Episode: "Interlude in Venice" |
| 1966 | Softly Softly | Bellamy | Episode: "Best Out of Three" |
| 1966 | ITV Play of the Week | Jacob Manning | Episode: "The First Thunder" |
| 1966 | Armchair Theatre | Pete | Episode: "The Battersea Miracle" |
| 1966 | David Copperfield | Pawnbroker | Episode: "The Long Journey" |
| 1966 | This Man Craig | Alec MacGregor | Episode: "A Wise Father" |
| 1966 | The Liars | Pipe Smoker | 1 episode |
| 1966–69 | Doctor Who | Second Doctor | 119 episodes |
| 1967–68 | Doctor Who | Salamander | Serial: The Enemy of the World |
| 1970 | Little Women | Mr. March | 4 episodes |
| 1970 | Dr. Finlay's Casebook | Jack Baird | Episode: "Dust" |
| 1970 | ITV Playhouse | Mr. Fidler | Episode: "Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It" |
| 1970 | Paul Temple | Colonel Harp | Episode: "Swan Song for Colonel Harp" |
| 1970 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | Duke of Norfolk | 5 episodes |
| 1970–72 | A Family at War | Harry Porter | 9 episodes |
| 1971 | Softly, Softly: Task Force | Ernie Johnson | Episode: "Better Than Doing Porridge" |
| 1971 | The Persuaders! | Count Marceau | Episode: "The Old, the New, and the Deadly" |
| 1971 | ITV Sunday Night Theatre | Reilly | Episode: "Square One" |
| 1971 | Out of the Unknown | Jimmy Reed | Episode: "The Chopper" |
| 1971 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Justley | Episode: "Jilly" |
| 1971 | On the House | Doctor Stanley | 2 episodes |
| 1971 | Doomwatch | Lyon McArthur / Alan McArthur | Episode: "In the Dark" |
| 1971 | Owen, M.D. | Charlie Lynch | 2 Episodes: "Where There's Smoke" |
| 1972 | Colditz | Padre | Episode: "The Traitor" |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Bela Karoleon | Episode: "Brother Hood" |
| 1972 | The Main Chance | Frederick Owen | Episode: "Acting for Self" |
| 1972 | The Befrienders | Jim Goody | Episode: "Fallen Star" |
| 1972 | Jason King | Bennett | Episode: "That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else" |
| 1972 | The Goodies | Dr. Petal | Episode: "The Baddies" |
| 1972–73 | Doctor Who | Second Doctor | Serial: The Three Doctors |
| 1973 | Hawkeye, the Pathfinder | Uncle Cap | 5 episodes |
| 1973 | Ego Hugo | Lahorie / Biard | TV film |
| 1973 | Owen, M.D. | Victor Darlington | Episode: "You Don't Get Me" |
| 1973 | Whoops Baghdad! | Tambalane the Tartar | Episode: "Ali and the Thieves" |
| 1973 | Jackanory | Storyteller | 5 Episodes: "The Three Toymakers" |
| 1973 | Z-Cars | Bob Parker | Pressures of Work |
| 1974 | Charles Dickens' World of Christmas | ? | TV film |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Benjamin Disraeli | Episodes: "Lady Randolph" & "Recovery" |
| 1974 | Coronation Street | George Barton | 4 episodes |
| 1974 | Sutherland's Law | Fergusson | Episode: "Who Cares" |
| 1974 | Village Hall | Bill Lester | Episode: "The Magic Sponge" |
| 1974 | Special Branch | Professor Frederick Denny | Episode: "Alien" |
| 1974 | Crown Court | John Fisher | 3 episodes |
| 1975 | Crown Court | Joseph Molloy | 3 episodes |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Reg Crofts | Episode: "Hit and Run" |
| 1975 | Z-Cars | Councillor Barwell | 2 episodes |
| 1975 | Churchill's People | Hainault | Episode: "Silver Giant, Wooden Dwarf" |
| 1975 | Thriller | Lyall | Episode: "Nurse Will Make It Better" |
| 1976 | Lorna Doone | Counsellor Doone | 5 episodes |
| 1976 | Angels | George Moore | Episode: "Decision" |
| 1976 | Survivors | John Millen | Episodes: "Parasites" |
| 1976 | Our Mutual Friend | Rogue Riderhood | 1 episode |
| 1976 | Play for Today | Victor Marsden | Episode: "Love Letters on Blue Paper" |
| 1976–78 | The Feathered Serpent | Nasca | 12 episodes |
| 1977 | The Dick Emery Christmas Show: The Texas Connection | Potter | TV film |
| 1977 | Space: 1999 | Archon | Episode: "The Dorcons" |
| 1977 | Treasure Island | Israel Hands | 4 episodes |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Rear Admiral Markham | Episode: "The Sinking of HMS Victoria" |
| 1977 | Van der Valk | Father Bosch | Episode: "Accidental" |
| 1977 | Yanks Go Home | Lubbock | Episode: "The Game of the Name" |
| 1977 | Warship | Robertson | Episode: "Robertson Crusoe" |
| 1978 | Edward & Mrs. Simpson | Clement Attlee | 3 episodes |
| 1978 | The Devil's Crown | William Marshal | 5 episodes |
| 1978 | Horizon | Commentator | Episode: "Light of the 21st Century" |
| 1979 | Suez 1956 | Sir Walter Monckton | TV film |
| 1979 | The Onedin Line | Uncredited | Episode: "The Suitor" |
| 1979 | The Famous Five | Mr. Stick | Episode: "Five Run Away Together"" |
| 1980 | Only When I Laugh | Brian Perkins | Episode: "Where There's a Will" |
| 1980 | All Creatures Great and Small | Roddy | Episode: "Hair of the Dog" |
| 1980 | Play for Today | Judge Barnes-Ritchie | Episode: "No Defence" |
| 1981 | John Diamond | Joseph K'Nee | TV film |
| 1981 | Bognor | Xavier | 6 episodes |
| 1981 | Tales from the Thousand and One Nights | The Swindler | TV film |
| 1981 | Play for Today | Commodore Londonderry | Episode: "PQ17" |
| 1981–82 | Nanny | Mr. Jessop | 5 episodes |
| 1982 | Foxy Lady | J.P. Schofield | 2 episodes |
| 1982 | Shine on Harvey Moon | Wilf | Episode: "The Course of True Love" |
| 1982 | BBC2 Playhouse | William Pierce | Episode: "The Pigman's Protege" |
| 1982 | King's Royal | Father Campbell | 2 episodes |
| 1983 | Dramarama | The Instructor | Episode: "The Young Person's Guide to Getting Their Ball Back" |
| 1983 | Jury | James | Episode: "Ann" |
| 1983 | Play for Today | Malcolm | Episode: "Reluctant Chickens" |
| 1983 | The Cleopatras | Sextus | Episode: "100 BC" |
| 1983 | Doctor Who | Second Doctor | Episode: "The Five Doctors" |
| 1984 | The Two Ronnies | Mileaway Villager The Judge | Episode #10.4 Episode: "1984 Christmas Special" |
| 1984 | The Box of Delights | Cole Hawlings | 3 episodes |
| 1984 | Swallows and Amazons Forever!: The Big Six | Harry Bangate | TV film |
| 1984 | Minder | Joe Mancini | Episode: "Windows" |
| 1984 | Amy | Lord Rothermere | TV film |
| 1985 | Summer Season | Gerald | Episode: "Long Term Memory" |
| 1985 | Doctor Who | Second Doctor | Serial: The Two Doctors |
| 1986 | The Two of Us | Perce | 5 episodes |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | George Jackson | Episode: "The Dead of Jericho" |
| 1987 | Yesterday's Dreams | Jack | 4 episodes |
| 1987 | Super Gran | Great Sporran of the Isles | Episode: "Supergran and the Heir Apparent" |
| 1987 | Knights of God | Arthur | 13 episodes, (final appearance) |

### Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1945-6 | Macbeth | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1945-6 | The Seagull | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1945-6 | Twelfth Night | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1945-6 | Keep in a Cool Place | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1945-6 | Jenny Villiers | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1946 | Weep For the Cyclops | | Bristol Old Vic Company, and Old Vic & Sadlers Wells Trust Ltd |
| 1946 | Much Ado About Nothing | | Aldwych Theatre |
| 1950 | Eva Braun | Adolf Hitler | Gateway Theatre Club, London |
| 1950 | Hitler’s Mistress | Adolf Hitler | Grand Theatre, Brighton |
| 1963 | Night Conspirators | The Old Visitor | Wimbledon Theatre and Saville Theatre, London |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2015 | Lego Dimensions | Second Doctor | Archive audio |