Patrick Troughton

Acting • Born 1920-03-25 – Died 1987-03-28

Acting1Mill Hill, London, England, UK

Biography

Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, and playing 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 in 1972-1973, 1983 and 1985.

Filmography

189 credits

The Omen

Movie • 1976

Father Brennan

Jason and the Argonauts

Movie • 1963

Phineas

Hamlet

Movie • 1948

Player King

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

Movie • 2021

The Doctor (voice)

The Viking Queen

Movie • 1967

Tristram

The Black Knight

Movie • 1954

King Mark

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

Movie • 2020

The Doctor (voice)

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

Movie • 2022

The Doctor (voice)

Scars of Dracula

Movie • 1970

Klove

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Movie • 1978

Clement Attlee

And Did Those Feet ?

Movie • 1965

Lord Fountain

The Phantom of the Opera

Movie • 1962

The Rat Catcher

The Black Torment

Movie • 1964

Regis

Escape

Movie • 1948

Jim

The Red Shoes

Movie • 1948

BBC Radio Announcer (voice)

White Corridors

Movie • 1951

Sailor

The Woman with No Name

Movie • 1950

Colin

Talking Doctor Who

Movie • 2023

Self / The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

Movie • 2021

The Doctor (voice)

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

Movie • 2023

The Doctor (voice)

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

Movie • 2019

The Doctor (voice)

The Moonraker

Movie • 1958

Captain Wilcox

Chance of a Lifetime

Movie • 1950

Kettle

Longleat '83: The Lost Footage

Movie • 2015

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Movie • 1977

Melanthius

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

Movie • 1968

Dr. Who/Salamander

The Gorgon

Movie • 1964

Inspector Kanof

The Franchise Affair

Movie • 1951

Bill Brough

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Movie • 2013

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'

Movie • 2022

Self (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

Movie • 2016

The Doctor (Voice)

Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It

Movie • 1970

Mr. Fidler

A Hitch in Time

Movie • 1978

Professor Wagstaff

John Diamond

Movie • 1981

Joseph K'Nee

1984

Movie • 1956

Man on Telescreen (uncredited)

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

Movie • 1966

Dr. Who

Doctor Who: The Invasion

Movie • 1968

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Krotons

Movie • 1969

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

Movie • 1969

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

Movie • 1969

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The War Games

Movie • 1969

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

Movie • 1985

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Highlanders

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Movie • 1973

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Moonbase

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

Movie • 1967

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

Movie • 1968

The Doctor

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

Movie • 1968

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

Movie • 1968

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Dominators

Movie • 1968

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

Movie • 1968

The Doctor

Treasure Island

Movie • 1950

Roach

R.U.R.

Movie • 1948

Radius, a robot

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

Movie • 2017

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Nurse Will Make It Better

Movie • 1975

Lyall

Waterfront

Movie • 1950

Sam (uncredited)

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Movie • 1983

The Doctor (2)

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet

Movie • 1966

The Doctor (2) (uncredited)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

Movie • 2008

(archival footage)

Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Movie • 2001

Himself (archive footage)

Patrick Troughton in America

Movie • 2003

Self (archive footage)

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Movie • 1974

Bodysnatcher

Wuthering Heights

Movie • 1962

Hindley

Doctor Who: Earthshock

Movie • 1982

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Love Letters on Blue Paper

Movie • 1976

Victor Marsden

No Defence

Movie • 1980

Judge Barnes-Ritchie

Reluctant Chickens

Movie • 1983

Malcolm

P.Q. 17

Movie • 1981

Commodore Londonderry

Richard III

Movie • 1955

Tyrell

Amy

Movie • 1984

Lord Rothermere

Cardboard Cavalier

Movie • 1949

Executed Man (uncredited)

The Pigman's Protege

Movie • 1982

William Pierce

The Sinking of the HMS Victoria

Movie • 1977

Rear Admiral Markham

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

Movie • 2024

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Doctor Who at the Proms

Movie • 2024

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Devious

Movie • 2009

Second Doctor (archive footage)

30 Years in the TARDIS

Movie • 1993

Himself (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

Movie • 2008

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Movie • 2015

The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

Movie • 1983

The Doctor (2) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

Movie • 1972

The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

Movie • 1976

The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Movie • 1984

The Doctor (2) (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Ties That Bind Us

Movie • 2008

The Second Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Movie • 2025

Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ordeal by Fire

Movie • 1957

La Hire

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Movie • 1981

The Swindler

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Movie • 1961

Narrator (voice)

Treasure Island

Movie • 1977

Israel Hands

Adventures in Time and Spain

Movie • 2003

(archvie footage)

The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition

Movie • 2020

Doctor Who

Long Term Memory

Movie • 1985

Gerald

Give the Clown His Supper

Movie • 1965

Stuart

Five Doctors, One Studio

Movie • 2008

Badger's Green

Movie • 1949

Jim Carter

The Chopper

Movie • 1971

Jimmy Reed

The Sweeney

TV • 1975

Reg Crofts

Super Gran

TV • 1985

Great Sporran of the Isles

Colditz

TV • 1972

Padre

Danger Man

TV • 1960

Softly, Softly

TV • 1966

Doctor Who

TV • 1963

Z-Cars

TV • 1962

The Persuaders!

TV • 1971

Count Marceau

Jason King

TV • 1971

Minder

TV • 1979

Joe Mancini

Inspector Morse

TV • 1987

George Jackson

Crown Court

TV • 1972

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

TV • 2021

The Doctor (voice)

The Saint

TV • 1962

Insp. Gambetti

Survivors

TV • 1975

John Millen

Interpol Calling

TV • 1959

Sukru

All Creatures Great and Small

TV • 1978

Roddy

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

TV • 1962

The Count of Monte Cristo

TV • 1956

Compact

TV • 1962

Edward and Mrs Simpson

TV • 1978

Clement Atlee

The Wednesday Play

TV • 1964

Van der Valk

TV • 1972

Father Bosch

The Adventures of Robin Hood

TV • 1955

Constable

Angels

TV • 1975

No Hiding Place

TV • 1959

Play for Today

TV • 1970

Victor Marsden

Sunday Night Theatre

TV • 1950

Cardinal Wolsey

Warship

TV • 1973

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

TV • 1970

Duke of Norfolk

The Third Man

TV • 1959

Luigi Carvossa

Sunday-Night Play

TV • 1960

Narrator (voice)

Yanks Go Home

TV • 1976

Robin Hood

TV • 1953

Sir Francis Drake

TV • 1961

Gazio

Sherlock Holmes

TV • 1964

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

TV • 1955

Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

The Adventures of William Tell

TV • 1958

Hanzler

International Detective

TV • 1959

Silversmith

The Old Curiosity Shop

TV • 1962

Maigret

TV • 1960

Lorna Doone

TV • 1976

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

TV • 1974

Foxy Lady

TV • 1982

The Feathered Serpent

TV • 1976

Nasca

The Main Chance

TV • 1969

Frederick Owen

Doctor Who: Lost in Time

TV • 1965

The Doctor

Tales of the Tardis

TV • 2023

The Doctor

Doctor Who Then & Now

TV • 1987

Doctor Who

The Goodies

TV • 1970

Dr. Petal

Space: 1999

TV • 1975

Archon

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

TV • 2013

Self

Crown Court

TV • 1972

Joseph Molloy

Play for Today

William Pierce

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV • 1977

Rear Admiral Markham

HMS Paradise

TV • 1964

Captain Ahab Rudlow

On the House

TV • 1970

Doctor Stanley

David Copperfield

TV • 1966

Pawnbroker

The Liars

TV • 1966

Pipe Smoker

Whoops Baghdad

TV • 1973

Tamberlane the Terrible

The Love School

TV • 1975

Frederick Stephens

Yesterday's Dreams

TV • 1987

Jack

Man of the World

TV • 1962

Thiboeuf

Only When I Laugh

TV • 1979

Joe Perkins

The Two of Us

TV • 1986

Perce

Churchill's People

TV • 1974

Hainault

The World of Hammer

TV • 1994

Self (archive footage)

Little Women

TV • 1970

Robert March

Out of the Unknown

TV • 1965

Jimmy Reed

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

TV • 1962

Alex Dean

Knights of God

TV • 1987

Arthur