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Biography

Pat Troughton was born on March 25, 1920 and was best known for his role as the Second incarnation of the Doctor Who. He…more

Born

3/25/1920, Mill Hill, London, England, UK

Died

3/28/1987

Birth Name

Patrick George Troughton

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (8)

Role
- Knights of God
  Arthur
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode 1
    9/6/87
- The Two of Us (UK)
  Perce
  - S 1: Ep 2 Family Pressures
    11/7/86
  - S 1: Ep 1 Proposals
    10/31/86
- Foxy Lady
  J. P. Schofield
  - S 2: Ep 7 (Owen's romance)
    2/29/84
  - S 2: Ep 6 (property redevelopment)
    2/22/84
  - S 2: Ep 5 (bank manager)
    2/15/84
  - S 2: Ep 4 (woman's page)
    2/8/84
  - S 2: Ep 3 (gambling debts)
    2/1/84
  - + 9 More Credits
- Edward and Mrs Simpson
  Clement Attlee
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Abdication
    12/20/78
  - S 1: Ep 6 Proposals
    12/13/78
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Decision
    12/6/78
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Divorce
    11/29/78
  - S 1: Ep 3 The New King
    11/22/78
  - + 2 More Credits
- A Family At War
  Mr. Porter
  - S 1: Ep 12 If It's Got Your Number On It
    7/28/70
  - S 1: Ep 11 Brothers in War
    7/21/70
  - S 1: Ep 10 One of Ours
    7/14/70
  - S 1: Ep 9 The Night They Hit Number Eight
    7/7/70
  - S 1: Ep 8 For Strategic Reasons
    6/30/70
  - + 6 More Credits
- Doctor Who (1963)
  Dr. Who
  - S 6: Ep 44 The War Games, Episode Ten
    6/21/69
  - S 6: Ep 43 The War Games, Episode Nine
    6/14/69
  - S 6: Ep 42 The War Games, Episode Eight
    6/7/69
  - S 6: Ep 41 The War Games, Episode Seven
    5/31/69
  - S 6: Ep 40 The War Games, Episode Six
    5/24/69
  - + 108 More Credits
- Doctor Who (1963)
  Dr. Who / Salamander
  - S 5: Ep 22 The Enemy of the World, Episode 6
    1/27/68
  - S 5: Ep 21 The Enemy of the World, Episode 5
    1/20/68
  - S 5: Ep 20 The Enemy of the World, Episode 4
    1/13/68
  - S 5: Ep 19 The Enemy of the World, Episode 3
    1/6/68
  - S 5: Ep 18 The Enemy of the World, Episode 2
    12/30/67
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1956)
  Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
  - S 1: Ep 18 The Farmer's Boy
    6/22/56
  - S 1: Ep 17 Gentlemen of the Road
    6/15/56
  - S 1: Ep 16 The Winged Madonna
    6/8/56
  - S 1: Ep 15 Antoine and Antoinette
    6/1/56
  - S 1: Ep 14 The Imaginary Invalid
    5/25/56
  - + 13 More Credits
Recurring Role (19)

Role
- The Two of Us (UK)
  Perce
  - S 1: Ep 7 The End of the Beginning
    12/12/86
  - S 1: Ep 4 Cracks in the Pavement
    11/21/86
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Limit
    11/14/86
- Doctor Who (1963)
  The Doctor
  - S 22: Ep 9 The Two Doctors, Part Three
    3/2/85
  - S 22: Ep 8 The Two Doctors, Part Two
    2/23/85
  - S 22: Ep 7 The Two Doctors, Part One
    2/16/85
- Doctor Who (1963)
  The Second Doctor
  - S 20: Ep 23 The Five Doctors
    11/25/83
- The Nanny (1981)
  Mr Jessop
  - S 2: Ep 10 A Twist of Fate
    3/13/82
  - S 2: Ep 1 Ashes to Ashes
    1/16/82
  - S 2: Ep 2 Ringtime
    1/9/82
  - S 1: Ep 10 Other People's Babies
    3/14/81
  - S 1: Ep 9 A Pinch of Dragon's Blood
    3/7/81
- Bognor
  Xavier
  - S 1: Ep 6 Unbecoming Habits, Episode 6: Making a Bog of It
    2/26/81
  - S 1: Ep 5 Unbecoming Habits, Episode 5: Keeping up with the Jones
    2/24/81
  - S 1: Ep 4 Unbecoming Habits, Episode 4: Lord Dismiss Us
    2/19/81
  - S 1: Ep 3 Unbecoming Habits, Episode 3: The Cross Country Monk
    2/17/81
  - S 1: Ep 2 Unbecoming Habits, Episode 2: Batty Tom
    2/12/81
  - + 1 More Credits
- Doctor Who (1963)
  Dr. Who
  - S 10: Ep 4 The Three Doctors, Episode Four
    1/20/73
  - S 10: Ep 3 The Three Doctors, Episode Three
    1/13/73
  - S 10: Ep 2 The Three Doctors, Episode Two
    1/6/73
  - S 10: Ep 1 The Three Doctors, Episode One
    12/30/72
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
  Jack Baird
  - S 8: Ep 13 Dust
    12/13/70
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII
  Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk
  - S 1: Ep 5 Catherine Howard
    1/29/70
  - S 1: Ep 4 Anne of Cleves
    1/22/70
  - S 1: Ep 3 Jane Seymour
    1/15/70
  - S 1: Ep 2 Anne Boleyn
    1/8/70
  - S 1: Ep 1 Catherine of Aragon
    1/1/70
- Doctor Who (1963)
  Dr. Who [uncredited]
  - S 4: Ep 8 The Tenth Planet, Episode 4
    10/29/66
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
  Mr. Miller
  - S 4: Ep 23 Crusade
    4/24/66
  - S 3: Ep 14 A Little Learning
    4/4/65
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Control Group
    1/3/65
  - S 2: Ep 17 A Test Of Intelligence
    1/12/64
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
  Miller
  - S 2: Ep 40 The Doctor Cried
    6/28/64
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
  Alex Dean
  - S 1: Ep 9 Snap Diagnosis
    10/11/62
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Sir Fulke
  - S 4: Ep 16 The Bagpiper
    9/4/60
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Sir Boland
  - S 3: Ep 28 The Elixir Of Youth
    4/7/58
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Seneschal
  - S 2: Ep 30 Food For Thought
    4/22/57
  - S 2: Ep 17 The Blackbird
    1/21/57
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Raoul
  - S 2: Ep 21 The Bandit Of Brittany
    2/18/57
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Traveler
  - S 2: Ep 18 The Shell Game
    1/28/57
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Sir William Fitzwalter
  - S 2: Ep 16 The Dream
    1/14/57
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Constable
  - S 2: Ep 13 The Friar's Pilgrimage
    12/24/56
Guest Star (75)

Role
- Inspector Morse
  George Jackson
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Dead of Jericho
    1/6/87
- The Two Ronnies
  Judge
  - S 10: Ep 7 The Two Ronnies Christmas Special
    12/25/84
- Minder (1979)
  Joe Mancini
  - S 4: Ep 9 Windows
    3/7/84
- Dramarama
  The Inspector
  - S 1: Ep 8 A Young Person's Guide To Getting Their Ball Back
    10/31/83
- Jury (1983)
  James
  - S 1: Ep 11 Ann
    6/23/83
- Play for Today
  Guest Star
  - S 12: Ep 8 PQ17
    12/15/81
  - S 6: Ep 19 Love Letters on Blue Paper
    3/2/76
- Only When I Laugh
  Perkins
  - S 2: Ep 2 Where There's a Will
    5/6/80
- The Famous Five (1978)
  Mr. Stick
  - S 2: Ep 3 Five Run Away Together
    7/11/79
- Space: 1999
  Archon
  - S 2: Ep 24 The Dorcons
    5/1/78
- Angels
  Guest Star
  - S 3: Ep 4 Decision
    9/27/77
- Van der Valk
  Father Bosch
  - S 3: Ep 2 Accidental
    9/12/77
- Yanks Go Home
  Lubbock
  - S 2: Ep 2 The Game of the Name
    8/15/77
- Warship
  Robertson
  - S 4: Ep 11 Robertson Crusoe
    3/15/77
- Survivors (1975)
  John Millen
  - S 2: Ep 10 Parasites
    6/2/76
- The Sweeney
  Reg Crofts
  - S 2: Ep 5 Hit and Run
    9/29/75
- Z Cars
  Councillor Barwell
  - S 9: Ep 22 Eviction
    3/3/75
  - S 9: Ep 21 Squatters
    2/24/75
- Thriller (1973)
  Lyall
  - S 4: Ep 2 Nurse Will Make It Better
    1/11/75
- Crown Court
  John Fisher
  - S 3: Ep 151 Pot Of Basil : Part 1
    12/18/74
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
  Benjamin Disraeli
  - S 1: Ep 3 Recovery
    11/19/74
  - S 1: Ep 2 Lady Randolph
    11/12/74
- Special Branch
  Prof. Frederick Denny
  - S 4: Ep 11 Alien
    4/25/74
- Z Cars
  Bob Parker
  - S 8: Ep 9 Pressure Of Work
    12/17/73
- The Protectors (1972)
  Bela Karoleon
  - S 1: Ep 2 Brother Hood
    10/6/72
- The Befrienders
  Jim Goody
  - S 1: Ep 11 Fallen Star
    4/29/72
- Jason King
  Bennett
  - S 1: Ep 26 That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else
    4/28/72
- A Family At War
  Harry Porter
  - S 3: Ep 20 Yielding Place to New
    2/16/72
- The Goodies
  Dr. Petal
  - S 2: Ep 13 The Baddies
    1/14/72
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Duke of Norfolk
  - S 1: Ep 40 The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon
    1/2/72
- Softly Softly
  Ernie Johnson
  - S 7: Ep 12 Better than Doing Porridge
    12/22/71
- The Persuaders!
  Le Comte Marceau
  - S 1: Ep 9 The Old, the New, and the Deadly
    11/12/71
- Out of the Unknown
  Jimmy Reed
  - S 4: Ep 9 The Chopper
    6/16/71
- Doomwatch
  McArthur
  - S 2: Ep 9 In the Dark
    2/15/71
- Paul Temple
  Colonel Harp
  - S 1: Ep 9 Swan Song for Colonel Harp
    1/18/70
- Adam Adamant Lives!
  General Mongerson
  - S 1: Ep 16 D for Destruction
    10/13/66
- The Saint
  Inspector Gambetti
  - S 5: Ep 2 Interlude in Venice
    10/7/66
- Softly Softly
  Bellamy
  - S 1: Ep 23 Best Out Of Three
    6/8/66
- This Man Craig
  Alec McGregor
  - S 1: Ep 4 A Wise Father
    1/28/66
- No Hiding Place
  Old Starr
  - S 8: Ep 6 The Street
    12/8/65
- Thirty-Minute Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 2 Give the Clown His Supper
    10/14/65
  - S 6: Ep 28 Jilly
    5/31/71
- The Wednesday Play
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 21 And Did Those Feet?
    6/2/65
- Sherlock Holmes (1965)
  Mortimer Tregennis
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Devil's Foot
    2/27/65
- Thorndyke
  Frank Belfield
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Old Lag
    10/3/64
- The Third Man
  Luigi Carvossa
  - S 3: Ep 1 A Question in Ice
    6/27/64
- Detective
  Jasper Shrig
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Loring Mystery
    6/22/64
- Crane
  Hugo Krantz
  - S 2: Ep 13 Man without a Past
    6/15/64
- Z Cars
  Jack Carter
  - S 3: Ep 30 Inside Job
    3/25/64
- The Saint
  Police Inspector
  - S 2: Ep 18 The Romantic Matron
    1/16/64
- The Sentimental Agent
  Sheikh
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Scroll of Islam
    12/7/63
- Espionage
  John McBride
  - S 1: Ep 5 He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday
    10/30/63
- Man of the World
  Thiboeuf
  - S 1: Ep 1 Death of a Conference
    9/29/62
- Sir Francis Drake
  Gazio
  - S 1: Ep 18 The Bridge
    3/11/62
  - S 1: Ep 17 Drake on Trial
    3/4/62
  - S 1: Ep 4 Doctor Dee
    12/3/61
- Maigret
  Gaston Meurant
  - S 2: Ep 8 Raise Your Right Hand
    12/11/61
- No Hiding Place
  Denger Wells
  - S 3: Ep 18 Process of Elimination
    6/9/61
- International Detective
  Bela Davos
  - S 2: Ep 11 The Martos Case
    5/28/61
- Danger Man
  Bart
  - S 1: Ep 28 Bury the Dead
    3/19/61
- Danger Man
  Brenner
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Lonely Chair
    10/30/60
- No Hiding Place
  Percy Clarke
  - S 2: Ep 5 Two Blind Mice
    6/2/60
- International Detective
  Silversmith
  - S 1: Ep 16 The Marino Case
    4/10/60
- The Flying Doctor
  Ernie
  - S 1: Ep 30 Stranger in Distress
    4/2/60
- The Four Just Men
  Vito
  - S 1: Ep 14 The Moment of Truth
    12/12/59
- The Four Just Men
  Inspector Nardi
  - S 1: Ep 9 The Night of the Precious Stones
    11/7/59
- No Hiding Place
  Blakey
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Stalag Story
    10/14/59
- Interpol Calling
  Sukru
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Thirteen Innocents
    9/13/59
- Maigret
  Barman
  - S 1: Ep 0 Maigret and the Lost Life
    4/12/59
- The Adventures of William Tell
  Hunzler
  - S 1: Ep 14 The Golden Wheel
    12/15/58
- H.G. Wells' Invisible Man
  Vickers
  - S 1: Ep 13 Strange Partners
    12/14/58
- Sword of Freedom
  Cecci
  - S 1: Ep 23 The Ambassador
    8/15/58
- Sword of Freedom
  Teofilo
  - S 1: Ep 22 The School
    8/8/58
- Dial 999
  Bill Mace
  - S 1: Ep 2 Thames Division
    7/13/58
- Sword of Freedom
  Duke Di Luca
  - S 1: Ep 17 The Tower
    6/13/58
- Sword of Freedom
  Bastiano
  - S 1: Ep 6 Vespucci
    3/28/58
- The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
  Pete
  - S 1: Ep 32 Something Old, Something New
    3/11/58
- Assignment Foreign Legion
  Nedeau
  - S 1: Ep 19 The Conquering Hero
    1/25/57
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1956)
  Lord Anthony Dewhurst
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Elusive Chauvelin
    4/6/56
- The Count of Monte Cristo
  Marcel
  - S 2: Ep 2 Marseilles
    2/27/56
- Disneyland
  Roach
  - S 1: Ep 12 Treasure Island (2)
    1/12/55
  - S 1: Ep 11 Treasure Island (1)
    1/5/55

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Trivia
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- To date, Patrick Troughton has been the only actor to reprise the role of the Doctor in three specials.
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- Troughton is the only actor to play his own "evil" twin in the Doctor Who Series. In the episode Enemy of the World he plays both the Doctor and his nemesis, the evil Salamander.
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- When William Hartnell regenerated into Patrick Troughton, Troughton was seen briefly at the end of Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet Episode 4.
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- Patrick Troughton: (On playing the Doctor) It was the happiest time of my professional life.
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- Patrick Troughton: (On playing the Doctor) How did I feel about taking on the role? To begin with, I thought it would last about six weeks after Billy Hartnell had finished. My children and I had been fans of the programme and I loved the way he had played the Doctor. But I knew I couldn't possibly do it like that.
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- Patrick Troughton: I've done a lot of swashbuckling in my time - ever since Joy Harington gave me my first real television chance in Kidnapped.
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