Peter Davison

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. He has reprised the role of the Fifth Doctor in a series of audio plays by Big Finish Productions. He is married to Georgiana Young (née Georgiana Belzer), youngest half-sister of late star Loretta Young. He has also starred in the television series The Last Detective (2003) and Distant Shores (2004), the latter where he coincidentally also played a doctor. In 1994, after spinal surgery, Montalban was confined to a wheelchair. He continued to appear occasionally on television, but it was not until 2000 that he returned in another major role, that of David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites. Over the course of his long career, he has played roles or guest starred in dozens of television series.

This, and the opportunity to play Tristan Farnon again in 1985 and 1990, kept Davison busy until the early 1990s, when he gradually faded from the public eye. He also appeared in the second Spy Kids film in 2002 and the third one in 2003. Davison also played the lead in Campion, a series based on the period whodunnits of Margery Allingham. He has appeared in many diverse films including The Naked Gun and two films from the Planet of the Apes series. The surreal comedy-drama was revived several years later as A Very Polish Practice. He played an entirely different role by appearing as Khan in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, which he reprised from a 1967 episode of Star Trek called Space Seed. He played Dr Stephen Daker, the ingenuous hero of A Very Peculiar Practice, written by Andrew Davies. Roarke, and his sidekick Tattoo, were pop icons.

It was not until 1986 that Davison worked on another really popular series. His character, Mr. Reportedly, Patrick Troughton (who had played the Second Doctor) had recommended to Davison that he leave the role after three years, and Davison followed his advice. For a time the program was one of the most popular on television. Attracting such a high-profile actor was as much of a coup for the programme's producers as getting the role was for him, but he did not renew his contract because he feared being typecast. He then starred in the television program, Fantasy Island from 1978 to 1984. Davison appeared in some British sitcoms before signing a contract to play the Doctor for three years, succeeding Tom Baker. The car was successful and heavily advertised—his mellifluous delivery of a line praising its "rich Corinthian leather" upholstery became famous and was much parodied.

He and Dickinson appeared together in an episode of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In 1975 he was chosen as the television spokesman for the new Chrysler Cordoba . He married American actress Sandra Dickinson in the same year, but they divorced in 1994. Many of his early roles were in Westerns, where he played character parts usually as the Latin lover. His performance as the ne'er-do-well Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small made him a household name. During the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the few working Hispanic actors. He studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and appeared in several stage productions and some minor television roles before he got his big break in 1978. Montalban's first role was on The 20th Century-Fox Hour in 1955.

Davison was born Peter Moffett in London, his father being originally from Guyana. Ricardo Montalban (born November 25, 1920 in Mexico City) is an actor. Davison's departure was regarded by many as the kiss of death for the programme, though it survived several more years with other actors in the role. Peter Davison (born April 13, 1951) is a popular British actor, most commonly associated with the leading role in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984 (see List of Doctor Who serials).