Jon Pertwee

Jul 07, 1919 - May 20, 1996 (76 years old) in Chelsea, London, England, UK

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.

Known For

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Doctor Who

The Doctor (archive footage)

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Doctor Who

The Doctor

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The Avengers

Brigadier Whitehead

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Blankety Blank

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The Paul Daniels Magic Show

Self

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The Goodies

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Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

Self

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Tales of the Tardis

The Doctor

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Worzel Gummidge

Worzel Gummidge

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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

Credits

Just William at the circus (Comes to town) Future

Circus superintendent

★ 4
Doctor Who at the Proms 2024

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

★ 10
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour 2024

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

★ 5.8
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals 2023

Self - archive

★ 4.7
Talking Doctor Who 2023

Self / The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

★ 5
Tales of the Tardis 2023

The Doctor

★ 4.4
Jon Pertwee: Uncut! 2021

Himself

★ NR
Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files 2021

★ 0.5
Doctor Who and the Third Man 2019

★ NR
The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years 2017

★ NR
Panopticon Genesis 2017

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song 2015

The Doctor (3) (picture) (uncredited)

★ 8
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage 2015

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor 2013

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

★ 8.2
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee 2013

(archive footage)

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited 2013

Self

★ 6.4
Life on Earth 2011

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Devious 2009

Third Doctor

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor 2008

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

★ 7.4
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 2008

(archival footage)

★ NR
The Ties That Bind Us 2008

The Third Doctor (archive footage)

★ NR
Doctor Who 2005

The Doctor (archive footage)

★ 7.5
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 2001

Himself (archive footage)

★ NR
The Home Whovian 2001

★ NR
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen 1995

General Von Kramer

★ 5.7
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond 1995

★ NR
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen 1995

★ NR
The Zero Imperative 1994

Dr. Jeremiah O'Kane

★ 7
Stranger than Fiction 1994

★ NR
Police 5: The Master 1993

The Doctor (archive footage)

★ NR
30 Years in the TARDIS 1993

Himself

★ 7.5
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time 1993

The 3rd Doctor

★ 4.4
Return to Devil's End 1993

Self

★ 8
The Airzone Solution 1993

Oliver Threthewey

★ 5.5
Carry On Columbus 1992

Duke of Costa Brava

★ 3.8
Virtual Murder 1992

★ 6.5
Reverse the Polarity: A Day in the Life of Jon Pertwee 1992

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Pertwee Years 1992

Host

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Troughton Years 1991

Host

★ NR
The PanoptiCon Tapes V 1990

★ NR
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV 1990

★ NR
The PanoptiCon Tapes III 1990

★ NR
The PanoptiCon Tapes II 1990

★ NR
The PanoptiCon Tapes 1990

★ NR
The Further Adventures of SuperTed 1989

★ 6
Myth Makers 15: Jon Pertwee 1989

★ NR
On the Waterfront 1988

★ NR
Starwatch 1988

Commander Havlin

★ NR
Worzel Gummidge Down Under 1987

Worzel Gummidge

★ 8
Myth Runner 1987

Himself

★ 10
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI 1986

★ NR
Who's Who 1986

★ NR
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems 1986

Narrator

★ NR
Doctor Who's Who's Who 1985

Doctor Who

★ NR
Surprise, Surprise 1984

Self

★ 5.8
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks 1984

The Doctor (3) (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7.8
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors 1983

The Doctor (3)

★ 7.7
SuperTed 1983

Spotty

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead 1983

The Doctor (3) (archive footage)

★ 7
The Boys in Blue 1982

Coastguard

★ 5.2
The Curious Case Of Santa Claus 1982

Dr. Merryweather

★ NR
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special 1980

Worzel Gummidge

★ 10
The Paul Daniels Magic Show 1979

Self

★ 7.5
Worzel Gummidge 1979

Worzel Gummidge

★ 6.2
Blankety Blank 1979

★ 4.6
The Water Babies 1978

Salmon

★ 5.9
Wombling Free 1977

Womble Voices (voice)

★ 9.5
Four Against The Desert 1977

★ NR
No. 1 of the Secret Service 1977

The Rev. Walter Braithwaite

★ 3.8
Adventures of a Private Eye 1977

Judd Blake

★ 4.3
Tell Me Another 1976

Guest

★ 8
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius 1976

The Doctor (3) (picture) (uncredited)

★ 8.2
Green Cross Code: Splink Launch 1976

★ NR
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing 1975

Colonel

★ 5.7
Doctor Who: Robot 1975

The Doctor

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders 1974

The Doctor

★ 7.4
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon 1974

The Doctor

★ 5
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks 1974

The Doctor

★ 6.2
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs 1974

The Doctor

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior 1974

The Doctor

★ 7.2
Whodunnit? 1973

Host

★ 7.3
Doctor Who: The Green Death 1973

The Doctor

★ 8.7
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks 1973

The Doctor

★ 7
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space 1973

The Doctor

★ 8
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters 1973

The Doctor

★ 8
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors 1973

The Doctor

★ 7.2
Doctor Who: The Time Monster 1972

The Doctor

★ 5.7
Doctor Who: The Mutants 1972

The Doctor

★ 7.7
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils 1972

The Doctor

★ 7.5
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon 1972

The Doctor

★ 7.7
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks 1972

The Doctor

★ 7.9
Doctor Who: The Dæmons 1971

The Doctor

★ 7.5
Doctor Who: Colony in Space 1971

The Doctor

★ 6.6
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos 1971

The Doctor

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil 1971

The Doctor

★ 7.2
The House That Dripped Blood 1971

Paul Henderson (segment 4 "The Cloak")

★ 6.3
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons 1971

The Doctor

★ 7.7
The Goodies 1970

★ 7.5
Doctor Who: Inferno 1970

Dr. Who

★ 8.5
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death 1970

The Doctor

★ 7
Doctor Who and the Silurians 1970

The Doctor

★ 7.3
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space 1970

The Doctor

★ 8.9
Under the Table You Must Go 1970

Self

★ NR
Up in the Air 1969

★ NR
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1966

Crassus

★ 6
Carry On Screaming! 1966

Doctor Fettle

★ 6.5
Carry On Cowboy 1965

Sheriff Albert Earp

★ 6.3
A Slight Case Of... 1965

★ 6
You Must Be Joking 1965

Storekeeper (Hare Factory)

★ 5.6
How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment 1965

Adam

★ 5
I've Gotta Horse 1965

Costumier's Assistant

★ 6
Runaway Railway 1965

Station Master

★ 7
Carry On Cleo 1964

Soothsayer

★ 6.6
Ladies Who Do 1963

Sidney Tait

★ 7
Nearly a Nasty Accident 1961

Gen. Birkinshaw

★ 7
The Avengers 1961

Brigadier Whitehead

★ 7.7
Not a Hope in Hell 1960

★ NR
Just Joe 1960

Prendergast

★ NR
Then and Now 1960

★ NR
The Ugly Duckling 1959

Victor Jekyll

★ 5.8
Ivanhoe 1958

Peter the Peddler

★ 6.3
It's a Wonderful World 1956

Conductor

★ 5.3
A Yank in Ermine 1955

Slowburn Jenks

★ 4
The Gay Dog 1954

A Betting Man

★ 6.5
Will Any Gentleman...? 1953

Charley Sterling

★ 5.6
Mr. Drake's Duck 1951

Reuben

★ 5
The Body Said No! 1950

★ NR
Miss Pilgrim's Progress 1949

Postman Perkins

★ 6
Dear Mr. Prohack 1949

Plover

★ 6
Murder at the Windmill 1949

Police Sergeant

★ 6
Helter Skelter 1949

Headwaiter

★ 6.2
William Comes to Town 1948

★ NR
A Piece of Cake 1948

Mr. Short

★ 4.5
Trouble in the Air 1948

★ 7
Dancing with Crime 1947

Police Constable (uncredited)

★ 6.1
Toad of Toad Hall 1946

Judge

★ NR
There Ain't No Justice 1939

Young Man in Cafe (uncredited)

★ 6
The Four Just Men 1939

Rally campaigner (uncredited)

★ 6.2
A Yank at Oxford 1938

Minor Role (uncredited)

★ 6.7

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