Nicholas Courtney
Acting • Born 1929-12-16 – Died 2011-02-22
Biography
William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an Egyptian-born British actor. He was best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Filmography
101 credits
TravelWise
Movie • 2000
Alistair Singleton
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Movie • 1993
The Brigadier
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Movie • 1974
French Intelligence Officer
Return to Devil's End
Movie • 1993
Self
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
Movie • 1997
Doctor Who: Inferno
Movie • 1970
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
Movie • 2021
Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
Lust in Space
Movie • 1998
Time Judge / self
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
Movie • 2001
Doctor at Sea
Movie • 2002
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
Movie • 1990
Endless Night
Movie • 1972
Second Auctioneer (uncredited)
Downtime
Movie • 1995
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Nick & Caroline: Uncut!
Movie • 2021
The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years
Movie • 2017
Doctor Who: Battlefield
Movie • 1989
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Wartime
Movie • 1988
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
The End of Arthur's Marriage
Movie • 1965
Husband
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
Movie • 1970
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Chronotrip
Movie • 2002
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Movie • 1972
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Movie • 1975
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Bullseye!
Movie • 1990
Sir Hugh
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
Movie • 1995
30 Years in the TARDIS
Movie • 1993
Himself / Narrator
Doctor Who: Robot
Movie • 1975
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Movie • 1970
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Movie • 1972
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Movie • 1971
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Movie • 1970
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Movie • 1973
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Movie • 1983
Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Movie • 2008
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
Movie • 2013
(archive footage)
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie • 2003
The Corridor Sketch
Movie • 1991
Sir Horace
Myth Runner
Movie • 1987
Himself
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Movie • 1998
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Movie • 1973
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Movie • 1983
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Born Kicking
Movie • 1992
Tim Ayling
To Catch a King
Movie • 1984
de Oliveira
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Movie • 1968
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Movie • 1974
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Movie • 1971
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Movie • 1974
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Movie • 1974
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Movie • 1968
Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Movie • 1966
Bret Vyon
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Movie • 1971
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Movie • 1971
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Movie • 1971
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Take a Girl Like You
Movie • 1970
Panel Chairman
Doppelgänger
Movie • 1969
Data Analyst
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Movie • 1966
Sergeant
Incendiary
Movie • 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Movie • 1981
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Movie • 2002
The Brigadier
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie • 1984
The Brigadier (archive footage) (uncredited)
UNIT Recruiting Film
Movie • 1993
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
Missing in Action
Movie • 1993
Self - Narrator
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
Rogue Time Lords
Movie • 2007
Doctor Who: Downtime
Movie • 2025
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
Movie • 2011
Self (voice)
Five Doctors, One Studio
Movie • 2008
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV • 2007
Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Col. Lethbridge-Stewart
The Bill
TV • 1984
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Gifford
Satellite City
TV • 1996
Jason King
TV • 1971
Minder
TV • 1979
Raymond Wilkins
The Saint
TV • 1962
Alain
Callan
TV • 1967
Doomwatch
TV • 1970
Phillip
The Champions
TV • 1968
Doctor Farley
Doctors
TV • 2000
All Creatures Great and Small
TV • 1978
Paul Cotterell
Shelley
TV • 1979
French Fields
TV • 1989
Marquis
Yes, Prime Minister
TV • 1986
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Hutchinson Hatch
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Then Churchill Said to Me
TV • 1993
Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
TV • 1999
The Main Chance
TV • 1969
James Harding
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Tourist (uncredited)
Casualty
TV • 1986
Claude Devigny
Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
TV • 1969
Max
Victoria Regina
TV • 1964
Tudor
The Man in Room 17
TV • 1965
Gilles
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Bret Vyon
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Lethbridge-Stewart
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
TV • 1977
Bronzed Man
Myth Makers
TV • 2015
Himself
The Informer
TV • 1966
Henry Leason
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Ned
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Freemantle