Nicholas Courtney
Born: 1929-12-16 in Cairo, Egypt
Died: 2011-02-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an Egyptian-born British actor. He was best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Filmography
2025
- Doctor Who: Downtime as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Splendid Chap as Self (Archive)
2023
- Tales of the Tardis as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
2021
- Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3 as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
- Nick & Caroline: Uncut!
2015
- Myth Makers as Himself
2013
- A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee as (archive footage)
- Doctor Who: Yellow Fever and How to Cure It as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Remembering Nicholas Courtney as Self
2011
- Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor as Self (voice)
2009
- Who Wants to Live Forever? as Self
- Liberty Hall as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
- What Lies Beneath as Self
- Incendiary as Archbishop of Canterbury
- Five Doctors, One Studio
- Going Underground as Self
- Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
- Storm Over Avallion: Making 'Battlefield' as Self
- Past and Future King: Writing ‘Battlefield’ as Self
2007
- The Sarah Jane Adventures as Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Rogue Time Lords
2006
- Evolution of The Invasion as Self
2002
- Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Brigadier
- Chronotrip
- Doctor at Sea
2000
- Doctors
- TravelWise as Alistair Singleton
1998
- Lust in Space as Time Judge / self
- Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1996
1995
- Downtime as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1994
- Myth Makers 28: Sylvester McCoy as Self
1993
- Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time as The Brigadier
- UNIT Recruiting Film as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
- 30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself / Narrator
- Then Churchill Said to Me
- Missing in Action as Narrator
- Return to Devil's End as Self
1992
- Born Kicking as Tim Ayling
1991
- The Corridor Sketch as Sir Horace
1990
- Bullseye! as Sir Hugh
- The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1989
- Doctor Who: Battlefield as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- French Fields as Marquis
1988
- Wartime as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)
1987
- Myth Runner as Himself
1986
- Casualty as Claude Devigny
- Yes, Prime Minister
- Myth Makers 12: Ian Marter
1984
- The Bill
- Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as The Brigadier (archive footage) (uncredited)
- To Catch a King as de Oliveira
1983
- Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: The Five Doctors as Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart
1981
- Doctor Who: Logopolis as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
1978
- All Creatures Great and Small as Paul Cotterell
1977
- The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as Bronzed Man
1975
- Doctor Who: Robot as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
1974
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Soft Beds, Hard Battles as French Intelligence Officer
1973
- Doctor Who: The Three Doctors as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: The Green Death as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
1972
- Endless Night as Second Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: The Time Monster as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Hutchinson Hatch
- Jason King
- Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: The Dæmons as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: Colony in Space as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
1970
- Doomwatch as Phillip
- Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who and the Silurians as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Take a Girl Like You as Panel Chairman
- Doctor Who: Inferno as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart
1969
- Doppelgänger as Data Analyst
- The Main Chance as James Harding
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Max
1968
- The Champions as Doctor Farley
- Doctor Who: The Invasion as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Doctor Who: The Web of Fear as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart
1967
1966
- The Brides of Fu Manchu as Sergeant
- The Informer as Henry Leason
- Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan as Bret Vyon
1965
- The End of Arthur's Marriage as Husband
- The Man in Room 17 as Gilles
1964
- Theatre 625 as Ned
- Victoria Regina as Tudor
1963
- Doctor Who as Col. Lethbridge-Stewart
1962
- The Saint as Alain
1961
- The Avengers as Gifford