John Devon Roland “Jon” Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996) was an English actor, comedian, entertainer and cabaret performer. Born into a theatrical family, he served in the Royal Navy and the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War. In his early career he worked as a stage comedian, which included performing at the Glasgow Empire Theatre and sharing a bill with Max Wall and Jimmy James.
Jon Pertwee Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jon Pertwee |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Chelsea, London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1919-07-07 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday | 1996-05-20 |
Jon Pertwee Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Airzone Solution | Oliver Threthewey | 1993-01-01 | The Airzone Solution takes place in a future Britain where pollution has reached a point where the populace must often wear filtration masks when they… |
| Doctor Who: The Three Doctors | The Doctor | 1973-01-20 | Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords’ past hell-bent on destruction. The o… |
| Doctor Who and the Silurians | The Doctor | 1970-03-14 | Investigating Mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians – prehistoric, intel… |
| Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons | The Doctor | 1971-01-23 | The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Auton… |
| Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space | The Doctor | 1970-01-24 | The New Doctor arrives on Earth in the middle of a freak meteor shower. Faceless killer shop window dummies are coming to life and killing anything th… |
| Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death | The Doctor | 1970-05-02 | Astronauts rescued from a mission to mars are kidnapped when they arrive back on earth. They seem to have been irradiated, and can now kill people mer… |
| Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos | The Doctor | 1971-04-03 | A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn’t fooled,… |
| Doctor Who: The Dæmons | The Doctor | 1971-06-19 | On the eve of May Day, dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village of Devil’s End as the Master summons the demon Azal: unexplained murders, a … |
| Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil | The Doctor | 1971-03-06 | Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Priso… |
| Doctor Who: Colony in Space | The Doctor | 1971-05-15 | When the Master steals the Time Lords’ secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal … |
| Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks | The Doctor | 1972-01-22 | Guerillas time-jump back from the 22nd century to assassinate Sir Reginald Styles – a diplomat working for World Peace, The Doctor discovers they are … |
| Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon | The Doctor | 1972-02-19 | The planet Peladon has applied to join the Galactic Federation, and The Doctor is mistaken for the chairman of the committee sent to assess its applic… |
| Doctor Who: Frontier in Space | The Doctor | 1973-03-31 | In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia…. |
| Doctor Who: The Time Monster | The Doctor | 1972-06-24 | The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT – Transmission Of Matter … |
| Doctor Who: The Green Death | The Doctor | 1973-06-23 | The Doctor and UNIT investigate a deadly infection lurking underneath the Welsh mining town of Llanfairfach. It’s an adventure that will change Jo Gra… |
| Doctor Who: The Mutants | The Doctor | 1972-05-13 | The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in t… |
| Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters | The Doctor | 1973-02-17 | The Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped inside an alien peepshow machine which showman Vorg and his assistant Shirna have brought to amuse the popul… |
| Doctor Who: The Sea Devils | The Doctor | 1972-04-01 | The Master joins forces with The Sea Devils to take over the world, unless The Doctor and The Royal Navy can stop them…. |
| Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks | The Doctor | 1973-05-12 | On the jungle planet Spiridon, the Doctor, Jo and a Thal group find a slumbering army of Daleks ready to awaken…. |
| Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs | The Doctor | 1974-02-16 | The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosau… |
| Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon | The Doctor | 1974-04-27 | The Doctor returns to Peladon fifty years after his last visit, to find Queen Thalira, daughter of the late King Peladon, on the throne. A tense labou… |
| Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks | The Doctor | 1974-03-16 | An energy drain traps the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith on the planet Exxilon with its hostile natives, causing the travellers to make an uneasy a… |
| Doctor Who: The Time Warrior | The Doctor | 1974-01-05 | When scientists start to go missing in the 20th century, the Doctor is called in by the Brigadier to investigate. His investigations lead him to deduc… |
| Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders | The Doctor | 1974-06-08 | The blue crystal that the Doctor took from Metebelis III in a previous adventure is desperately sought by the Eight Legs, a race of mutated spiders, a… |
| Then and Now | 1960-01-01 | A look at the progression in audio and visual technology…. | |
| A Cup O’ Tea An’ A Slice O’ Cake – Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special | Worzel Gummidge | 2002-10-14 | Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stub… |
| Jon Petwee: Uncut! | Himself | 2021-06-08 | Born John Devon Roland ‘Jon’ Pertwee and originally serving in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence Division during WW2, he became famous as the thir… |
| How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment | Adam | 1965-06-01 | Comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to modern strip clubs…. |
| Doctor Who: The Pertwee Years | 1992-01-01 | Following on from the other documentaries “The Hartnell Years” and “The Troughton Years”, which showcased rare surviving episodes from incomplete stor… | |
| Doctor Who: Inferno | Dr. Who | UNIT is providing security cover at an experimental drilling project at Eastchester, designed to penetrate the Earth’s crust and release a previously … | |
| Myth Makers 15: Jon Pertwee | 1989-01-15 | Jon Pertwee was quite simply a star. From vaudeville, through theatre, radio in The Navy Lark, films, records and television, including Doctor Who and… | |
| PROBE: The Zero Imperative | Dr. Jeremiah O’Kane | 1994-01-01 | Former UNIT scientist Liz Shaw investigates a series of bizarre murders near a soon-to-be closed psychiatric hospital. When the hospital is suddenly s… |
| The Ugly Duckling | Victor Jekyll | 1959-09-09 | Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrive… |
| A Yank in Ermine | Slowburn Jenks | 1955-01-01 | An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship. Unsur… |
| The Curious Case Of Santa Claus | Dr. Merryweather | 1982-01-01 | On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus visits a psychiatrist to find out who he is and why there are so many of him ringing bells on street corners…. |
| Murder at the Windmill | Police Sergeant | 1949-06-06 | A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can … |
| Doctor Who: The Five Doctors | The Doctor (3) | 1983-11-25 | Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle … |
| Mister Drake’s Duck | Reuben | 1951-09-21 | Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the governm… |
| The Body Said No! | 1950-03-31 | A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical s… | |
| Not a Hope in Hell | 1960-10-01 | The efforts of a female Customs Officer to challenge smugglers who hide illicit liquor in a steam roller…. | |
| The Home Whovian | 2001-01-01 | In the 1980’s US public television station New Jersey Network produced some groundbreaking documentaries about Doctor Who following the programme’… | |
| Will Any Gentleman…? | Charley Sterling | 1953-08-25 | A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk’s life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the wo… |
| A Piece of Cake | Mr. Short | 1948-11-01 | Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide… |
| Just Joe | Prendergast | 1960-07-01 | A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet…. |
| Up in the Air | 1969-01-01 | Victorian schoolboy adventure. Freddie is sent away to a boarding school where he is very miserable and tries to escape in several instances. Finally … | |
| Nearly a Nasty Accident | 1961-05-01 | The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on… | |
| Miss Pilgrim’s Progress | 1949-11-29 | An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act…. | |
| I’ve Gotta Horse | Costumier’s Assistant | 1965-01-01 | A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, A… |
| Trouble in the Air | 1948-11-01 | A radio commentator is sent to a village to broadcast a bell-ringing team. Meanwhile a property speculator tries to buy a plot of land for less than i… | |
| Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen | 1995-01-01 | In the second “Stranger Than Fiction” documentary, Mark Gatiss explores the three latest BBV productions; “The Terror Game”, “Breach of the Peace” and… | |
| Toad of Toad Hall | Judge | 1946-12-29 | An adaptation of the 1908 novel, The Wind in the Willows…. |
| Runaway Railway | Station Master | 1966-11-12 | A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine “Matilda… |
| William Comes to Town | 1948-12-31 | William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys…. | |
| The Boys in Blue | Coastguard | 1982-09-20 | Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with clo… |
| Dear Mr. Prohack | Plover | 1949-09-07 | A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett’s novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and… |
| Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time | The 3rd Doctor | 1993-11-27 | All of the Doctor’s incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special…. |
| Ladies Who Do | Sidney Tait | 1963-11-01 | The “Ladies Who Do” are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save thei… |
| No. 1 of the Secret Service | The Rev. Walter Braithwaite | 1978-04-01 | No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad gu… |
| Adventures of a Private Eye | Judd Blake | 1977-03-04 | While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to “solve” a case that comes in. Complicati… |
| The Water Babies | Salmon | 1978-01-01 | This children’s fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evi… |
| Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (3) (archive footage) | 2013-11-23 | In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in spa… |
| Stranger than Fiction | 1994-01-01 | Gary Russell of Marvel Comics’ Doctor Who Magazine investigates the world of BBV. In a relatively short space of time and with relatively small amoun… | |
| A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee | (archive footage) | 2013-07-15 | This exclusive documentary looks at the life and career of Jon Pertwee. With contributions from actors Katy Manning, Judy Cornwell, David Jacobs, Geof… |
| Longleat ’83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy | Himself (archive footage) | 2001-02-20 | Video footage telling the story of the biggest Doctor Who (1963) convention ever in the UK, “Longleat 83”, which was put together to celebrate the 20t… |
| Helter Skelter | Headwaiter | 1949-01-07 | A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can’t seem to stop hiccuping…. |
| Carry On Cowboy | Sheriff Albert Earp | 1965-11-26 | Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a ‘sanitary engineer’ named Marshal P. Knutt is mist… |
| Carry On Screaming | Doctor Fettle | 1966-05-20 | The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He’s kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortuna… |
| 30 Years in the TARDIS | Himself | 1993-11-29 | A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material…. |
| The Gay Dog | A Betting Man | 1954-06-01 | Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against…. |
| Longleat ’83: The Lost Footage | 2015-10-01 | In April 1983, Roger Stevens and James Russell were given “Access All Areas†passes to the BBC’s Doctor Who celebrations at Longleat. Armed with… | |
| The House That Dripped Blood | Paul Henderson (segment 4 “The Cloak”) | 1971-02-22 | A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house…. |
| Who’s Who | 1986-08-13 | Produced for American Public Television, this documentary on the long-running Doctor Who television series features interviews with actors and actress… | |
| Myth Runner | Himself | 1987-01-01 | A spoof of Blade Runner, built around bloopers and outtakes from the Myth Makers series of videos, featuring interviews with actors from the Doctor Wh… |
| Carry On Cleo | Soothsayer | 1964-11-08 | Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of thei… |
| One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Colonel | 1975-07-09 | Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious “Lotus X”, Lord Southmere, a Queen’s Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese… |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen | General Von Kramer | 1995-10-08 | In the twelfth film in the series, in 1917, Indiana Jones transfers from the Belgian army to the French intelligence service, where his first assignme… |
| The Four Just Men | Rally campaigner (uncredited) | 1939-06-01 | The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren’t above a bit of murder or sa… |
| The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond | 1995-09-01 | More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its var… | |
| Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 | (archival footage) | 2008-03-03 | Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who’s twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission … |
| Carry On Columbus | Duke of Costa Brava | 1992-10-02 | Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition…… |
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Crassus | 1966-10-16 | A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom…. |
| A Yank at Oxford | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1938-02-18 | A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist’s sister…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Doctor Who: The Troughton Years | Presenter | 1991-06-03 | A documentary about Patrick Troughton’s years as Doctor Who presented by Jon Pertwee. This also contains the following surviving episodes from the inc… |
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