Peter Purves: Difference between revisions

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
m (Bot: Cosmetic changes)
 
(135 intermediate revisions by 32 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{real world}}
{{real world}}
[[Image:Peterpurves.jpeg|thumb|Peter Purves (publicity portrait)]]
{{Infobox Person
'''Peter Purves''' (born [[10th February]] [[1939]]) played [[First Doctor|the Doctor]]'s [[companion]] [[Steven Taylor]] from "[[The Chase]]" to "[[The Savages]]."  He also had a small comic role in "The Chase" as [[United States|American]] tourist [[Morton Dill]].
|image          = Peter Purves.jpg
|birth date    = [[10 February (people)|10 February]] [[1939 (people)|1939]]
|role          = [[Steven Taylor]], [[First Doctor]]
|job title      = [[Actor]]
|story          = [[#Credits|See Credits Section]]
|time          = 1965-66, 2008-present
|non dwu        = ''[[Blue Peter]]'', ''Crufts'', ''Kick Start'', ''[[EastEnders]]'', ''The Office''
|imdb          = 0701007
|official site  = peterpurves.net
|twitter        = purves_peter
}}{{You may|Peter Purves (in-universe)|n1=his in-universe counterpart}}
'''Peter John Purves''' (born on [[10 February (people)|10 February]] [[1939 (people)|1939]]<ref>[https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/peter-purves.html Famous Birthdays]</ref> in New Longton, [[Lancashire]], [[England]]) played the [[First Doctor]]'s [[companion]] [[Steven Taylor]] from ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'' to ''[[The Savages (TV story)|The Savages]]''. He also had a small comic role in ''The Chase'' as [[United States|American]] tourist [[Morton Dill]].


Purves was born in [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]], and originally planned to go into teaching, but began acting with the [[Wikipedia:Barrow-in-Furness|Barrow-in-Furness]] Repertory Company. He first became well-known to [[television]] audiences in the mid-[[1960s]] as Steven Taylor in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
As well as reprising the role of Steven for [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s audio adventures, he also recreated the role of the First Doctor.


After leaving ''Doctor Who'', Purves became a regular presenter on the children's magazine programme, ''[[Blue Peter]]'', and was one of the longest-serving, lasting from [[1967]] to [[1978]]. For much of that time, he co-presented with [[John Noakes]] and [[Valerie Singleton]], and was so closely associated with the programme, especially as the sensible one, that he found the image difficult to shake off afterwards.  His subsequent career has mainly been as a presenter, frequently for major dog shows such as [[Wikipedia:Crufts|Crufts]]. He was also host of the long-running [[BBC]] TV motorbike trials series ''Kick Start''.
He had previously been considered for the role of an unspecified [[Menoptera]] in ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]''. ([[DCOM]]: ''The Chase'')


He has also made cameo appearances as himself in episodes of programmes such as the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' and the hugely popular sitcom ''[[Wikipedia:The Office|The Office]]''.
== Career ==
Purves had originally planned to go into teaching, but instead began acting with the {{w|Barrow-in-Furness}} Repertory Company. He first became well-known to [[television]] audiences in the mid-1960s as Steven Taylor in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.


Purves now lives in the [[Suffolk]] village of [[Wikipedia:Sibton|Sibton]].
After leaving ''Doctor Who'', Purves became a regular presenter on the children's magazine programme, ''[[Blue Peter]]''. He was one of the longest-serving, lasting from 1967 to 1978. For much of that time, he co-presented with John Noakes and Valerie Singleton and was so closely associated with the programme, especially as the sensible one, that he found the image difficult to shake off afterwards. His subsequent career has mainly been as a presenter, frequently for major dog shows such as {{w|Crufts}}. He was also host of the long-running [[BBC]] TV motorbike trials series ''Kick Start''.


==External links==
He has made cameo appearances as himself in episodes of programmes such as the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' and the hugely popular sitcom {{wi|The Office (British TV series)|The Office}}.
*[http://peterpurves.com Official Site]
 
*{{imdb name|id=0701007|name = Peter Purves}}
Purves now lives in the [[Suffolk]] village of {{w|Sibton}}. In recent years, Purves has reprised the role of Steven for a number of [[Big Finish Productions]] audio dramas, and has also provided the voice of the [[First Doctor]] for several of these productions.
{{Wikipedia|Peter_Purves}}
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Purves, Peter}}
Purves was depicted in the 2013 docudrama ''[[An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)|An Adventure in Space and Time]]'' by an uncredited actor in one scene recreating the press photocall announcing [[Jackie Lane]]'s casting in the series. Despite it not being shown in the docudrama, Purves and [[William Hartnell]] got on "awfully well" in spite of the increasing difficulty that came with Hartnell's health issues and the change of cast and production team within quick succession.<ref>[https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-william-hartnell-cast-changes-newsupdate/ Radio Times]</ref>
[[Category:Doctor Who regular cast|Purves, Peter]]
 
[[Category:Doctor Who actors who were also Blue Peter presenters]]
== Credits ==
As [[Steven Taylor]]
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]''
* ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]''
* ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]''
* ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]''
* ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]''
* ''[[The Massacre (TV story)|The Massacre]]''
* ''[[The Ark (TV story)|The Ark]]''
* ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]''
* ''[[The Gunfighters (TV story)|The Gunfighters]]''
* ''[[The Savages (TV story)|The Savages]]''
 
=== Webcasts ===
==== Tales of the TARDIS ====
* ''[[The Time Meddler (TotT TV story)|The Time Meddler]]''
 
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* ''[[The Secret History (audio story)|The Secret History]]''
 
==== Special Releases ====
* ''[[The Five Companions (audio story)|The Five Companions]]''
* ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]''
 
==== The Early Adventures ====
* ''[[The Bounty of Ceres (audio story)|The Bounty of Ceres]]''
* ''[[An Ordinary Life (audio story)|An Ordinary Life]]''
* ''[[The Ravelli Conspiracy (audio story)|The Ravelli Conspiracy]]''
* ''[[The Sontarans (audio story)|The Sontarans]]''
* ''[[The Dalek Occupation of Winter (audio story)|The Dalek Occupation of Winter]]''
* ''[[An Ideal World (audio story)|An Ideal World]]''
* ''[[Entanglement (audio story)|Entanglement]]''
* ''[[The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)|The Crash of the UK-201]]''
* ''[[Daughter of the Gods (audio story)|Daughter of the Gods]]''
* ''[[The Secrets of Det-Sen (audio story)|The Secrets of Det-Sen]]''
 
==== Companion Chronicles ====
* ''[[Mother Russia (audio story)|Mother Russia]]''
* ''[[The Suffering (audio story)|The Suffering]]''
* ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]''
* ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]''
* ''[[Tales from the Vault (audio story)|Tales from the Vault]]''
* ''[[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]''
* ''[[The Anachronauts (audio story)|The Anachronauts]]''
* ''[[Return of the Rocket Men (audio story)|Return of the Rocket Men]]''
* ''[[Upstairs (audio story)|Upstairs]]''
* ''[[The War To End All Wars (audio story)|The War To End All Wars]]''
* ''[[The Founding Fathers (audio story)|The Founding Fathers]]''
* ''[[The Locked Room (audio story)|The Locked Room]]''
* ''[[Across the Darkened City (audio story)|Across the Darkened City]]''
* ''[[The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (audio story)|The Vardan Invasion of Mirth]]''
 
==== Short Trips ====
* ''[[Flywheel Revolution (audio story)|Flywheel Revolution]]''
* ''[[Etheria (audio story)|Etheria]]''
* ''[[This Sporting Life (audio story)|This Sporting Life]]''
* ''[[O Tannenbaum (audio story)|O Tannenbaum]]''
* ''[[Peace in Our Time (audio story)|Peace in Our Time]]''
* ''[[Out of the Deep (audio story)|Out of the Deep]]''
 
As the [[First Doctor]]
=== Audio ===
==== The Early Adventures ====
* ''[[The Bounty of Ceres (audio story)|The Bounty of Ceres]]''
* ''[[An Ordinary Life (audio story)|An Ordinary Life]]''
* ''[[The Ravelli Conspiracy (audio story)|The Ravelli Conspiracy]]''
* ''[[The Sontarans (audio story)|The Sontarans]]''
* ''[[The Dalek Occupation of Winter (audio story)|The Dalek Occupation of Winter]]''
* ''[[An Ideal World (audio story)|An Ideal World]]''
* ''[[Entanglement (audio story)|Entanglement]]''
* ''[[The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)|The Crash of the UK-201]]''
* ''[[Daughter of the Gods (audio story)|Daughter of the Gods]]''
* ''[[The Secrets of Det-Sen (audio story)|The Secrets of Det-Sen]]''
 
==== Companion Chronicles ====
* ''[[Mother Russia (audio story)|Mother Russia]]''
* ''[[The Suffering (audio story)|The Suffering]]''
* ''[[The Perpetual Bond (audio story)|The Perpetual Bond]]''
* ''[[The Cold Equations (audio story)|The Cold Equations]]''
* ''[[Tales from the Vault (audio story)|Tales from the Vault]]''
* ''[[The First Wave (audio story)|The First Wave]]''
* ''[[The Anachronauts (audio story)|The Anachronauts]]''
* ''[[Return of the Rocket Men (audio story)|Return of the Rocket Men]]''
* ''[[Upstairs (audio story)|Upstairs]]''
* ''[[The War To End All Wars (audio story)|The War To End All Wars]]''
* ''[[The Founding Fathers (audio story)|The Founding Fathers]]''
* ''[[The Locked Room (audio story)|The Locked Room]]''
* ''[[Across the Darkened City (audio story)|Across the Darkened City]]''
* ''[[The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (audio story)|The Vardan Invasion of Mirth]]''
 
==== Short Trips ====
* ''[[Flywheel Revolution (audio story)|Flywheel Revolution]]''
* ''[[Etheria (audio story)|Etheria]]''
* ''[[This Sporting Life (audio story)|This Sporting Life]]''
* ''[[O Tannenbaum (audio story)|O Tannenbaum]]''
* ''[[Peace in Our Time (audio story)|Peace in Our Time]]''
* ''[[Out of the Deep (audio story)|Out of the Deep]]''
 
Other Roles
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'' - [[Morton Dill]]
 
=== Audiobook readings ===
==== Target Novelisations ====
* ''[[Mission to the Unknown (novelisation)|Daleks: Mission to the Unknown]]''
* ''[[The Mutation of Time (novelisation)|Daleks: The Mutation of Time]]''
* ''[[The Massacre (novelisation)|The Massacre]]''
* ''[[The Time Meddler (novelisation)|The Time Meddler]]''
* ''[[The Ark (novelisation)|The Ark]]''
* ''[[The Savages (novelisation)|The Savages]]''
 
==== BBC Audio ====
* ''[[Men of War (audio story)|Men of War]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space (novel)|Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space]]''
 
==== Doctor Who Audio Annuals ====
* ''[[The Sons of Grekk (short story)|The Sons of Grekk]]''
* ''[[Peril in Mechanistria (short story)|Peril in Mechanistria]]''
* ''[[Ten Fathom Pirates (short story)|Ten Fathom Pirates]]''
 
=== Documentary ===
* ''Myth Makers: William Hartnell''
* ''[[The Story of Doctor Who]]''
* ''[[Girls! Girls! Girls!]]''
* ''[[Dennis Spooner: Wanna Write a Television Series?]]''
* ''[[The End of the Line?]]''
* ''[[Riverside Story]]''
* ''[[Tomorrow's Times]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who in America]]''
* ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The First Doctor (documentary)|The Doctors Revisited - The First Doctor]]''
* ''[[Remembering Douglas Camfield]]''
* ''[[Boys! Boys! Boys!]]''
* ''[[William Hartnell: The Original]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty]]''
* ''[[The Trouble with Chumblies (documentary)|The Trouble with Chumblies]]''
* ''[[Flight Through Eternity (documentary)|Flight Through Eternity]]''
 
=== Other ===
* ''[[Children in Need 1985 (TV story)|Children in Need 1985]]''
 
== External links ==
{{imdb name|id=0701007}}
{{official website|peterpurves.net}}
{{twitter|purves_peter}}
 
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}
{{NameSort}}
 
[[ru:Питер Пёрвс]]
 
[[Category:Articles that were originally Wikipedia forks]]
[[Category:Doctor Who regular cast]]
[[Category:Doctor Who vocalists]]
[[Category:Actors who have voiced for the Doctor]]
[[Category:Pre-2005 Doctor Who cast reprising their roles at Big Finish]]
[[Category:BBC Audio audiobook readers]]
[[Category:People interviewed on Doctor Who Live]]
[[Category:Actors who were also Blue Peter presenters]]
[[Category:DVD commentary moderators]]
[[Category:The Early Adventures voice actors]]
[[Category:The Companion Chronicles voice actors]]
[[Category:Bonus Releases voice actors]]
[[Category:Main Range voice actors]]
[[Category:Short Trips voice actors]]
[[Category:Special Releases voice actors]]
[[Category:Big Finish regular cast]]
[[Category:Actors who portrayed companions of the Doctor]]
[[Category:Actors who portrayed the First Doctor]]
[[Category:Doctor Who actors that exist in the DWU]]
[[Category:Doctor Who webcast actors]]

Latest revision as of 20:20, 3 November 2024

RealWorld.png

You may be looking for his in-universe counterpart.

Peter John Purves (born on 10 February 1939[1] in New Longton, Lancashire, England) played the First Doctor's companion Steven Taylor from The Chase to The Savages. He also had a small comic role in The Chase as American tourist Morton Dill.

As well as reprising the role of Steven for Big Finish's audio adventures, he also recreated the role of the First Doctor.

He had previously been considered for the role of an unspecified Menoptera in The Web Planet. (DCOM: The Chase)

Career[[edit] | [edit source]]

Purves had originally planned to go into teaching, but instead began acting with the Barrow-in-Furness Repertory Company. He first became well-known to television audiences in the mid-1960s as Steven Taylor in Doctor Who.

After leaving Doctor Who, Purves became a regular presenter on the children's magazine programme, Blue Peter. He was one of the longest-serving, lasting from 1967 to 1978. For much of that time, he co-presented with John Noakes and Valerie Singleton and was so closely associated with the programme, especially as the sensible one, that he found the image difficult to shake off afterwards. His subsequent career has mainly been as a presenter, frequently for major dog shows such as Crufts. He was also host of the long-running BBC TV motorbike trials series Kick Start.

He has made cameo appearances as himself in episodes of programmes such as the soap opera EastEnders and the hugely popular sitcom The Office.

Purves now lives in the Suffolk village of Sibton. In recent years, Purves has reprised the role of Steven for a number of Big Finish Productions audio dramas, and has also provided the voice of the First Doctor for several of these productions.

Purves was depicted in the 2013 docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time by an uncredited actor in one scene recreating the press photocall announcing Jackie Lane's casting in the series. Despite it not being shown in the docudrama, Purves and William Hartnell got on "awfully well" in spite of the increasing difficulty that came with Hartnell's health issues and the change of cast and production team within quick succession.[2]

Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

As Steven Taylor

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Webcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tales of the TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]

Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Early Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]

As the First Doctor

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Early Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other Roles

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audiobook readings[[edit] | [edit source]]

Target Novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

BBC Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Audio Annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Documentary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Famous Birthdays
  2. ↑ Radio Times
Retrieved from "https://tardis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Peter_Purves&oldid=3890235"