Jon Pertwee
Acting • Born 1919-07-07 – Died 1996-05-20
Biography
John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996) was an English actor, comedian, entertainer and cabaret performer. Born into a theatrical family, he served in the Royal Navy and the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War. In his early career he worked as a stage comedian, which included performing at the Glasgow Empire Theatre and sharing a bill with Max Wall and Jimmy James.
Filmography
148 credits
Carry On Screaming!
Movie • 1966
Dr. Fettle
Carry On Cowboy
Movie • 1965
Sheriff Albert Earp
Life on Earth
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
The Water Babies
Movie • 1978
Salmon
Four Against The Desert
Movie • 1977
Doctor Who: The Pertwee Years
Movie • 1992
Self - Host
The House That Dripped Blood
Movie • 1971
Paul Henderson (segment 4 "The Cloak")
The Boys in Blue
Movie • 1982
Coastguard
A Yank at Oxford
Movie • 1938
Minor Role (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Robot
Movie • 1975
The Doctor
Mr. Drake's Duck
Movie • 1951
Reuben
Under the Table You Must Go
Movie • 1970
Self
Dancing with Crime
Movie • 1947
Police Constable (uncredited)
It's a Wonderful World
Movie • 1956
Conductor
Dear Mr. Prohack
Movie • 1949
Plover
Will Any Gentleman...?
Movie • 1953
Charley Sterling
Return to Devil's End
Movie • 1993
Self
The Airzone Solution
Movie • 1993
Oliver Threthewey
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Movie • 1993
The 3rd Doctor
A Piece of Cake
Movie • 1948
Mr. Short
The Ugly Duckling
Movie • 1959
Victor Jekyll
Doctor Who: Inferno
Movie • 1970
The Doctor
Talking Doctor Who
Movie • 2023
Self / The Doctor (3) (archive footage)
Doctor Who and the Third Man
Movie • 2019
The Home Whovian
Movie • 2001
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
Movie • 2015
Ladies Who Do
Movie • 1963
Sidney Tait
No. 1 of the Secret Service
Movie • 1977
The Rev. Walter Braithwaite
Reverse the Polarity: A Day in the Life of Jon Pertwee
Movie • 1992
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
Movie • 2023
Self - archive
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor (3) (archive footage)
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Movie • 1975
Colonel
There Ain't No Justice
Movie • 1939
Young Man in Cafe (uncredited)
The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
Movie • 1991
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
Movie • 1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
Movie • 1986
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
Movie • 1990
Panopticon Genesis
Movie • 2017
Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
Movie • 2021
Nearly a Nasty Accident
Movie • 1961
Gen. Birkinshaw
Carry On Cleo
Movie • 1964
Soothsayer
Doctor Who: The Troughton Years
Movie • 1991
Self - Presenter
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
Movie • 1986
Narrator
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Movie • 1994
Dr. Jeremiah O'Kane
The Four Just Men
Movie • 1939
Rally campaigner (uncredited)
The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years
Movie • 2017
You Must Be Joking
Movie • 1965
Storekeeper (Hare Factory)
Runaway Railway
Movie • 1965
Station Master
I've Gotta Horse
Movie • 1965
Costumier's Assistant
William Comes to Town
Movie • 1948
Circus Superintendent
Murder at the Windmill
Movie • 1949
Police Sergeant
Miss Pilgrim's Progress
Movie • 1949
Postman Perkins
The Body Said No!
Movie • 1950
Watchman
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Movie • 1966
Crassus
Not a Hope in Hell
Movie • 1960
Just Joe
Movie • 1960
Prendergast
Up in the Air
Movie • 1969
Figworthy
A Yank in Ermine
Movie • 1955
Slowburn Jenks
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
Movie • 1970
The Doctor
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Movie • 1970
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Movie • 1970
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Movie • 1971
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Movie • 1971
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Movie • 1971
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Movie • 1971
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Movie • 1971
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Movie • 1972
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
Movie • 1972
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Movie • 1972
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Mutants
Movie • 1972
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Movie • 1972
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Movie • 1973
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Movie • 1973
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Movie • 1973
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Movie • 1973
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Movie • 1974
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Movie • 1974
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
Movie • 1974
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Movie • 1974
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Movie • 1974
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Movie • 1973
The Doctor
The Curious Case Of Santa Claus
Movie • 1982
Dr. Merryweather
Trouble in the Air
Movie • 1948
Stranger than Fiction
Movie • 1994
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
Movie • 1995
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
Movie • 1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
Movie • 1995
General Von Kramer
Carry On Columbus
Movie • 1992
Duke of Costa Brava
Then and Now
Movie • 1960
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Movie • 1983
The Doctor (3)
30 Years in the TARDIS
Movie • 1993
Himself
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Movie • 2008
(archival footage)
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
Movie • 2013
(archive footage)
Who's Who
Movie • 1986
Toad of Toad Hall
Movie • 1946
Judge
Myth Runner
Movie • 1987
Himself
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Movie • 2001
Himself (archive footage)
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Movie • 1980
Worzel Gummidge
Helter Skelter
Movie • 1949
Headwaiter
The Gay Dog
Movie • 1954
A Betting Man
Adventures of a Private Eye
Movie • 1977
Judd Blake
Jon Pertwee: Uncut!
Movie • 2021
Himself
How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment
Movie • 1965
Adam
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Movie • 2024
The Doctor (3) (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
The Doctor (3) (archive footage)
Devious
Movie • 2009
Third Doctor
Wombling Free
Movie • 1977
Womble Voices (voice)
Starwatch
Movie • 1988
Commander Jason Havlin
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2008
The Doctor (3) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Movie • 2015
The Doctor (3) (picture) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Movie • 1983
The Doctor (3) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Movie • 1976
The Doctor (3) (picture) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie • 1984
The Doctor (3) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Police 5: The Master
Movie • 1993
The Doctor (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
The Third Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Movie • 2025
Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure
Movie • 1989
The Doctor
Reach for the Stars: The Starwatch Story
Movie • 2025
Self (Archive)
Jon, The Man Who Was Doctor Who
Movie • 2023
Self (Archive)
The Best of the Adventures
Movie • 1981
Judd Blake (archive footage) (uncredited)
Five Doctors, One Studio
Movie • 2008
My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
SuperTed: Super Safe with SuperTed
Movie • 1986
Spotty ( voice)
SuperTed
TV • 1983
Spotty
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Brigadier Whitehead
Whodunnit?
TV • 1973
Host
Surprise, Surprise
TV • 1984
Self
Virtual Murder
TV • 1992
Ivanhoe
TV • 1958
Peter the Peddler
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
TV • 1989
A Slight Case Of...
TV • 1965
Worzel Gummidge
TV • 1979
Worzel Gummidge
On the Waterfront
TV • 1988
Worzel Gummidge Down Under
TV • 1987
Worzel Gummidge
Blankety Blank
TV • 1979
The Paul Daniels Magic Show
TV • 1979
Self
Tell Me Another
TV • 1976
Guest
Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
The Doctor
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Doctor Who's Who's Who
TV • 1985
Doctor Who
The Goodies
TV • 1970
Reverend Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
TV • 2013
Self
Tell Me Another
TV • 1976
Himself
Worzel Gummidge
TV • 1979
Radio Announcer
Myth Makers
TV • 2015
Himself