David Troughton

David Troughton
Birth date:	9 June 1950
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	King Peladon, Black Guardian
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1968-69, 1972, 2008-present
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, having previously had an uncredited role as a guard in The Enemy of the World.

In the 1990s, Peter Darvill-Evans proposed a new Doctor based on David Troughton who would have appeared in the Virgin New Adventures line of novels following the regeneration of the Seventh Doctor. A photoshoot with Troughton was even considered. BBC Enterprises ultimately vetoed the whole idea. (DWM 252)

He shared his memories of his Doctor Who career on the 60th edition of Big Finish's charity podcast series Toby Hadoke's Who's Round.

Career

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)

Personal life

He is Patrick Troughton's first son, as well as the brother of Michael Troughton and the uncle of Harry Melling. He is the first child of an actor who played the Doctor to appear on the show, and the only one to make multiple televised appearances.

DWU credits

Television

Doctor Who

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

Other

• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Audio

Serpents' Crest

• The Hexford Invasion - Second Doctor
• Survivors in Space - Second Doctor

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Destroyer of Delights - the Black Guardian
• The Chaos Pool - the Black Guardian
• The Crimes of Thomas Brewster - Raymond Gallagher

DWM exclusive audio plays

• Cuddlesome - The Tinghus

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Pursuit of History / Casualties of Time - the Black Guardian

Novel Adaptations

• The Well-Mannered War - the Black Guardian

The Companion Chronicles

• The Prisoner of Peladon - King Peladon

Short Trips

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

Peladon

• The Ordeal of Peladon - King Peladon
• The Poison of Peladon - King Peladon (uncredited)

Torchwood Special Releases

• Parasite - Rigsby

Audiobook readings

Target Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
• Doctor Who and the War Games
• Fury from the Deep
• Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon
• The Invasion
• Doctor Who and the Web of Fear
• Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World
• The Wheel in Space
• The Seeds of Death

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

• The Wheel of Ice

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Many Hands
• Ghosts of India

BBC Audio

• The Eye of the Jungle

Tales of Trenzalore

• Let it Snow
• An Apple a Day...
• Strangers in the Outland
• The Dreaming

External links

• David Troughton at the Internet Movie Database