David Troughton

David Troughton
Birth date:	9 June 1950
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	King Peladon, The Black Guardian, Professor Hobbes
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	see credits section
Main time period active:	1968-1969, 1972, 2008-2009, 2015-2016
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, Crime and Punishment, Angels, A Very Peculiar Practice, Tales of Sherwood Forest, Bonjour la Classe, The Canterbury Tales, Madame Bovary, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Casualty 1906-1909, New Tricks, Outnumbered, Grantchester, The Hollow Crown, The Levelling, King Lear, Titus Andronicus
IMDb profile

David Troughton (born 9 June 1950) played several parts in televised and audio Doctor Who and narrated several audiobooks for BBC Audio and Big Finish Productions. His first credited role was as Private Moor in the Doctor Who television story The War Games. He is Patrick Troughton's first son as well as the brother of Michael Troughton and the uncle of Harry Melling.

In the early 1990s he was to become the face of Virgin Publishing's proposed new Doctor who would have appeared in the New Adventures line of books following the regeneration of the Seventh Doctor. The idea went as far as a photoshoot before the BBC vetoed the idea.

Beyond Doctor Who, Troughton is also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a renowned classical actor. He co-starred with Peter Davison in the TV series A Very Peculiar Practice, and Colin Baker in three episodes of the home video and audio play series The Stranger. He enjoys strong friendships with both of these actors, and even shared living accommodations with Baker in the early 1970s. He was also friends with actor Katy Manning at one point. According to Manning, they had both apparently wanted to convert the friendship into a romance, but neither had the courage to do so. (BBC DVD: The Three Doctors)

Roles

Television

• The Enemy of the World (as Guard Extra) (DWM 219)
• The War Games (as Private Moor)
• The Curse of Peladon (as King Peladon)
• Midnight (as Professor Hobbes)

Audio

Big Finish monthly range

• The Destroyer of Delights (as the Black Guardian)
• The Chaos Pool (as the Black Guardian)
• The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (as Raymond Gallagher)

DWM exclusive audio plays

• Cuddlesome (as The Tinghus)

Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Pursuit of History (as the Black Guardian)
• Casualties of Time (as the Black Guardian)

Novel Adaptations

• The Well-Mannered War (as the Black Guardian)

Companion Chronicles

• The Prisoner of Peladon (as King Peladon)

Serpents' Crest

• The Hexford Invasion (as Second Doctor)
• Survivors in Space (as Second Doctor)

Short Trips

• A Stain of Red in the Sand
• The Way Forwards
• The Five Dimensional Man
• Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Audiobook readings

• Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
• Ghosts of India
• Doctor Who and the War Games
• The Eye of the Jungle
• Fury from the Deep
• The Wheel of Ice
• Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon
• Tales of Trenzalore
• The Invasion
• Doctor Who and the Web of Fear

External links

• David Troughton at the Internet Movie Database