Peter Capaldi
Acting • Born 1958-04-14
Biography
Peter Dougan Capaldi (born April 14, 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role in In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, an affectionate spoof documentary about a fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema. Film roles include Oldsen in Local Hero, Angus Flint in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm, and Mr Curry in Paddington and its sequel, Paddington 2. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and helmed two series of sitcom Getting On.
Filmography
157 credits
Dangerous Liaisons
Movie • 1988
Azolan
Bean
Movie • 1997
Gareth
The Lair of the White Worm
Movie • 1988
Angus Flint
Local Hero
Movie • 1983
Danny Oldsen
National Theatre Live: Constellations
Movie • 2021
Roland
Aftersun
Movie • 2006
Jim
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour
Movie • 2014
Self
The Murder at Road Hill House
Movie • 2011
Samuel Kent
I Hate Christmas Too
Movie • 1997
Man
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
Movie • 2021
Self
The Suicide Squad
Movie • 2021
Thinker
Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)
Movie • 2004
John
December Bride
Movie • 1990
Young Sorleyson
Rosie the Great
Movie • 1989
The British Ambassador
Salvage
Movie • 2004
James Mulwray
House of 9
Movie • 2005
Max Roy
In the Loop
Movie • 2009
Malcolm Tucker
World War Z
Movie • 2013
W.H.O. Doctor
Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
Movie • 2011
Peter Van Gellis
Wild Country
Movie • 2005
Father Steve
Pinochet in Suburbia
Movie • 2006
Andy McEntee
Solid Geometry
Movie • 2002
David Hunter
What Rats Won't Do
Movie • 1998
Tony
Giving Tongue
Movie • 1996
Duncan Fielding
The Fifth Estate
Movie • 2013
Alan Rusbridger
John and Yoko: A Love Story
Movie • 1985
George Harrison
The Cricklewood Greats
Movie • 2012
Himself
Inside the Mind of Leonardo
Movie • 2013
Leonardo da Vinci
Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation
Movie • 2015
The Doctor
Selling Hitler
Movie • 1993
Thomas Walde
Up Line
Movie • 1987
Scott Dare
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Movie • 1997
Birgo Lander
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
Movie • 2003
Derek
Jealousy
Movie • 1993
John
Paddington
Movie • 2014
Reginald Curry
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Movie • 1993
Gavin Bellini
Doctor Who: Last Christmas
Movie • 2014
The Doctor
Do Not Disturb
Movie • 1991
Captives
Movie • 1994
Simon
God's Chosen Car Park
Movie • 1986
Everard
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor (12) (uncredited)
Max
Movie • 2002
David Cohn
The Greatest Store in the World
Movie • 1999
Mr. Whiskers
Hotel!
Movie • 2001
Hilton Gilfoyle
Modigliani
Movie • 2004
Jean Cocteau
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Movie • 2015
The Doctor
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
Movie • 1992
Luke Wakefield
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
Movie • 2014
The Doctor (12)
The Rise of the Nutters
Movie • 2007
Malcolm Tucker
Doctor Who: Friend from the Future
Movie • 2016
The Doctor
Lost for Words
Movie • 1996
The Tourist
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Movie • 1993
David Critchley
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
Movie • 2014
The Doctor
Bistro
Movie • 2010
Max
Paddington 2
Movie • 2017
Reginald Curry
The Story of a Recluse
Movie • 1987
Jamie Kirkwood
Living Apart Together
Movie • 1982
Joe
The Cloning of Joanna May
Movie • 1992
Isaac
Unconditional Love
Movie • 2003
DI Terry Machin
Turtle Diary
Movie • 1985
Assistant Keeper
Dream Baby
Movie • 1989
Willie
The Love Child
Movie • 1988
Dillon
The Best Man
Movie • 2005
Priest
Shooting Fish
Movie • 1997
Mr Gilzean
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor (12)
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Movie • 2017
The Doctor (12)
Christopher Robin
Movie • 2018
Rabbit (voice)
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie • 2019
Mr. Micawber
Runway One
Movie • 1995
Mick Galligan
Magicians
Movie • 2007
Mike Francis
Prison, My Parents & Me
Movie • 2016
Narrator
The Treasure Seekers
Movie • 1996
Jellicoe
How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery
Movie • 2019
Narrator
Martin's Close
Movie • 2019
Dolben
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Movie • 2014
Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
Movie • 2016
The Doctor
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2013
Self
Benediction
Movie • 2021
Siegfried Sassoon (Older)
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
Movie • 2013
Self - Presenter
Boswell's Boswell
Movie • 1998
James Boswell (voice)
Spinners and Losers
Movie • 2007
Malcolm Tucker
The Secret Agent
Movie • 1992
Mr Vladimir
A Portrait of Scotland
Movie • 2009
Self - Presenter
Napoleon's Waterloo
Movie • 2004
Narrator
Communicators From Hell
Movie • 1989
The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite
Movie • 2011
Riverwoods: An Untold Story
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Michael Powell
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
The Doctor (12) (archive footage)
The Academy of Armando
Movie • 2025
Self
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Movie • 2025
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Night In
Movie • 2020
Self
Colleagues From Hell
Movie • 1989
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Laurence Barker
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Peep Show
TV • 2003
Professor Alistair MacLeish
Skins
TV • 2007
Mark
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite
TV • 2011
voice actor
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
TV • 1997
Lord Fellamar
The Vicar of Dibley
TV • 1994
Prime Suspect
TV • 1991
Vernon 'Vera' Reynolds
The Thick of It
TV • 2005
Malcolm Tucker
Judge John Deed
TV • 2001
Neverwhere
TV • 1996
Islington
The Crow Road
TV • 1996
Rory McHoan
Fortysomething
TV • 2003
Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
Aftersun
TV • 2006
Accused
TV • 2010
Frank Ryland
Trawlermen
TV • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Caecilius
The Nativity
TV • 2010
Balthazar
The Hour
TV • 2011
Randall Brown
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
The Doctor
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
TV • 1994
The Field of Blood
TV • 2011
Dr. Pete
The Musketeers
TV • 2014
Cardinal Richelieu
Minder
TV • 1979
Ozzie
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Zeno Vedast
Getting On
TV • 2009
Peter Healy
In Deep
TV • 2001
Jeremy Church
Rik Mayall Presents
TV • 1993
David Critchley
Sea of Souls
TV • 2004
Gordon Fleming
Stay Lucky
TV • 1989
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Lucien Calvin
Class
TV • 2016
The Doctor
Psychos
TV • 1999
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Penguins of Madagascar
TV • 2008
Uncle Nigel (voice)
Punk Britannia
TV • 2012
Narrator
Fallen Angel
TV • 2007
Henry Appleton
Midnight Man
TV • 2008
Trevor
Doctor Who Extra
TV • 2014
Self
Criminal Record
TV • 2024
DCI Daniel Hegarty
The Devil's Hour
TV • 2022
Gideon Shepherd
Watership Down
TV • 2018
Kehaar (voice)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
TV • 2018
Self
Selling Hitler
TV • 1991
Thomas Walde
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Claude Langton
Torchwood
TV • 2006
John Frobisher
Cold Blood
TV • 2008
Self - Narrator
The Martians and Us
TV • 2006
Narrator
Titmuss Regained
TV • 1991
Ken Cracken
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self
Black Mirror
TV • 2011
Older Cameron Walker
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Raymond Carter
The Afternoon Play
TV • 2003
Billy Shannon
The Devil's Whore
TV • 2008
King Charles I
Spectrum
TV • 1984
Himself
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
Dolben
Being Beethoven
TV • 2020
Beethoven (voice)
Chandler & Co
TV • 1994
Larry
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
TV • 2015
10 Minute Tales
TV • 2009
The Man
Shadow of the Noose
TV • 1989
Robert Wood
Conan
TV • 2010
Self - Guest