Patrick Troughton
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Play for Today
Victor Marsden
1970
Series
Play for Today
Malcolm
1970
Series
Play for Today
Judge Barnes-Ritchie
1970
Series
Doctor Who
1963
Series
Doctor Who
The Doctor
1963
Series
Minder
Joe Mancini
1979
Series
The Saint
Insp. Gambetti
1962
Series
Crown Court
1972
Series
Crown Court
Joseph Molloy
1972
Series
Inspector Morse
George Jackson
1987
Series
The Wednesday Play
Lord Fountain
1964
Series
Space: 1999
Archon
1975
Series
Playhouse
William Pierce
1974
Series
The Persuaders!
Count Marceau
1971
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Constable
1955
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sir William Fitzwalter
1955
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Seneschal
1955
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sir Boland
1955
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Traveller
1955
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Raoul
1955
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sir Fulke Devereaux
1955
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Constable (uncredited)
1955
Series
Van der Valk
Father Bosch
1972
Series
The Sweeney
Reg Crofts
1975
Series
Z-Cars
1962
Series
ITV Playhouse
Mr. Fidler
1967
Series
Compact
1962
Series
All Creatures Great and Small
Roddy
1978
Series
Maigret
1960
Series
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Reilly
1969
Series
No Hiding Place
1959
Series
Danger Man
Bart
1960
Series
Danger Man
Brenner
1960
Series
The Goodies
Dr. Petal
1970
Series
BBC2 Play of the Week
Rear Admiral Markham
1977
Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Stuart Pendleton
1965
Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Justley
1965
Series
Angels
1975
Series
Sunday Night Theatre
Cardinal Wolsey
1950
Series
The Protectors
Bela Karoleon
1972
Film
The Omen
Father Brennan
1976
Series
Thriller
Lyall
1973
Sunday-Night Play
Narrator (voice)
1960
Series
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
Series
Interpol Calling
Sukru
1959
Series
Churchill's People
Hainault
1974
Series
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962
Series
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Alex Dean
1962
Series
Out of the Unknown
Jimmy Reed
1965
Film
Jason and the Argonauts
Phineas
1963
Series
Softly, Softly
1966
Series
The Main Chance
Frederick Owen
1969
Series
Paul Temple
1969
Series
Doomwatch
Lyon McArthur / Alan McArthur
1970
Series
Sir Francis Drake
Gazio
1961
Series
The Third Man
Luigi Carvossa
1959
Series
The Adventures of William Tell
Hanzler
1958
Series
Dramarama
Instructor
1983
Series
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
1994
Series
Jason King
1971
Series
Survivors
John Millen
1975
Series
Espionage
John McBride
1963
Series
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
1955
International Detective
Silversmith
1959
International Detective
Bela Davos
1959
Series
Shine on Harvey Moon
Wilf
1982
Series
Super Gran
Great Sporran of the Isles
1985
Series
Sherlock Holmes
1964
Series
Colditz
Padre
1972
Series
Warship
1973
Series
Man of the World
Thiboeuf
1962
Film
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
2013
Film
Treasure Island
Roach
1950
Film
The Red Shoes
BBC Radio Announcer (voice)
1948
Film
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Melanthius
1977
Series
Tales of the Tardis
The Doctor
2023
Series
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Duke of Norfolk
1970
Series
Only When I Laugh
Joe Perkins
1979
HMS Paradise
Captain Ahab Rudlow
1964
Series
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Clement Atlee
1978
Film
1984
Man on Telescreen (uncredited)
1956
Series
The Box of Delights
Cole Hawlings
1984
Series
The Love School
Frederick Stephens
1975
Film
Hamlet
Player King
1948
Film
The Gorgon
Inspector Kanof
1964
Film
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
2017
Series
The Two of Us
Perce
1986
Series
Whoops Baghdad
Tamberlane the Terrible
1973
Film
Scars of Dracula
Klove
1970
David Copperfield
Pawnbroker
1966
Film
Richard III
Tyrell
1955
On the House
Doctor Stanley
1970
Series
Doctor Who: Lost in Time
The Doctor
1965
Series
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
Series
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
Self
2013
Film
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Bodysnatcher
1974
Little Women
Robert March
1970
Series
Knights of God
Arthur
1987
Film
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)
2015
Film
Doctor Who at the Proms
The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
2024
Film
Reluctant Chickens
Malcolm
1983
Film
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
2008
Film
Talking Doctor Who
Self / The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
2023
Yesterday's Dreams
Jack
1987
Series
The Feathered Serpent
Nasca
1976
Film
The Phantom of the Opera
The Rat Catcher
1962
Film
The Black Knight
King Mark
1954
Yanks Go Home
1976
Series
Robin Hood
1953
Hawkeye, the Pathfinder
Uncle Cap
1973
Film
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
The Doctor
1967
Film
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
The Doctor (2) (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
A Tale of Two Cities
Dr. Manette
1965
Film
The Viking Queen
Tristram
1967
The Old Curiosity Shop
1962
Film
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
The Doctor
1967
Film
The Ties That Bind Us
The Second Doctor (archive footage)
2008
Film
The Moonraker
Captain Wilcox
1958
Series
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
The Doctor (voice)
2021
Film
Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
The Doctor
1968
No Cloak - No Dagger
Trev
1963
Film
Doctor Who: The Krotons
The Doctor
1969
Film
30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself (archive footage)
1993
Film
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
The Doctor
1985
Series
Doctor Who Then & Now
Doctor Who
1987
Film
Nurse Will Make It Better
Lyall
1975
Film
The Black Torment
Regis
1964
Foxy Lady
1982
Film
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)
1976
Film
The Woman with No Name
Colin
1950
Film
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
(archival footage)
2008
Film
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
The Second Doctor
1983
Film
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
The Doctor (2) (picture) (uncredited)
1972
Film
Doctor Who: The War Games
The Doctor
1969
Film
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Dr. Who
1966
Film
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
The Doctor
1967
Film
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
The Doctor
1973
Film
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
The Doctor
1967
Film
Escape
Jim
1948
Film
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
The Doctor
1969
Film
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Dr. Who (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Film
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Doctor
1967
Film
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
The Doctor
1967
Film
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
The Doctor (2) (uncredited)
1966
Film
Doctor Who: The Dominators
The Doctor
1968
Film
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
The Doctor
1968
Film
Waterfront
Sam (uncredited)
1950
Film
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
The Doctor
1967
Film
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
1983
Series
Lorna Doone
1976
Film
White Corridors
Sailor
1951
Film
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
The Doctor
1967
Film
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
The Doctor
1968
Film
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
The Doctor
1969
Film
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
2024
Film
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Clement Attlee
1978
Smuggler's Bay
Ratsey
1964
Film
The Chopper
Jimmy Reed
1971
Film
The Franchise Affair
Bill Brough
1951
Film
Doctor Who: The Invasion
The Doctor
1968
Film
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Victor Marsden
1976
Film
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
The Doctor
1968
Five Doctors, One Studio
2008
Film
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2015
Film
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Dr. Who/Salamander
1968
Film
Chance of a Lifetime
Kettle
1950
Film
Patrick Troughton in America
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
The Doctor (voice)
2021
Film
Doctor Who: Earthshock
The Doctor (2) (archive footage)
1982
Film
P.Q. 17
Commodore Londonderry
1981
Film
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
The Doctor (voice)
2023
Film
R.U.R.
Radius, a robot
1948
Film
A Hitch in Time
Professor Wagstaff
1978
Film
Wuthering Heights
Hindley
1962
Film
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
The Doctor
1967
Film
The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
Rear Admiral Markham
1977
Film
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
The Doctor (voice)
2019
Film
Cardboard Cavalier
Executed Man (uncredited)
1949
Badger's Green
Jim Carter
1949
Film
Amy
Lord Rothermere
1984
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Narrator (voice)
1961
Film
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
The Doctor (voice)
2020
Film
No Defence
Judge Barnes-Ritchie
1980
Film
Devious
Second Doctor (archive footage)
2009
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
Mr. Fidler
1970
Film
The Pigman's Protege
William Pierce
1982
Film
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
The Swindler
1981
Film
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Himself (archive footage)
2001
Give the Clown His Supper
Stuart
1965
Film
And Did Those Feet ?
Lord Fountain
1965
Film
Adventures in Time and Spain
(archvie footage)
2003
Film
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
The Doctor (Voice)
2016
Film
Treasure Island
Israel Hands
1977
Film
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
The Doctor (voice)
2021
Film
Ordeal by Fire
La Hire
1957
Film
John Diamond
Joseph K'Nee
1981
Film
Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
The Doctor (voice)
2022
Film
Long Term Memory
Gerald
1985