Nicholas Courtney | ALEFAST

Nicholas Courtney

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Cairo, Egypt, 1929-12-16

Died: 2011-02-22

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	The End of Arthur's Marriage	Husband	54
2	1966	Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan	Bret Vyon	78
3	1966	The Brides of Fu Manchu	Sergeant	57
4	1968	Doctor Who: The Web of Fear	Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart	77
5	1968	Doctor Who: The Invasion	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	90
6	1969	Doppelgänger	Data Analyst	62
7	1970	Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	88
8	1970	Doctor Who and the Silurians	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	73
9	1970	Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	70
10	1970	Doctor Who: Inferno	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart	83
11	1970	Take a Girl Like You	Panel Chairman	58
12	1971	Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	77
13	1971	Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	72
14	1971	Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	68
15	1971	Doctor Who: Colony in Space	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	67
16	1971	Doctor Who: The Dæmons	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	75
17	1972	Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	79
18	1972	Doctor Who: The Time Monster	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	57
19	1972	Endless Night	Second Auctioneer (uncredited)	61
20	1973	Doctor Who: The Three Doctors	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	72
21	1973	Doctor Who: The Green Death	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	87
22	1974	Doctor Who: The Time Warrior	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	72
23	1974	Soft Beds, Hard Battles	French Intelligence Officer	44
24	1974	Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	68
25	1974	Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	74
26	1975	Doctor Who: Robot	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	68
27	1975	Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	81
28	1981	Doctor Who: Logopolis	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)	68
29	1983	Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead	Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart	70
30	1983	Doctor Who: The Five Doctors	Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart	77
31	1984	To Catch a King	de Oliveira	40
32	1984	Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks	The Brigadier (archive footage) (uncredited)	78
33	1985	Myth Makers 3: Nicholas Courtney		0
34	1986	Myth Makers 12: Ian Marter		0
35	1987	Myth Runner	Himself	100
36	1988	Wartime	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)	47
37	1989	Doctor Who: Battlefield	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	72
38	1990	The PanoptiCon Tapes III		0
39	1990	Bullseye!	Sir Hugh	52
40	1991	The Corridor Sketch	Sir Horace	0
41	1992	Born Kicking	Tim Ayling	0
42	1993	Return to Devil's End	Self	80
43	1993	Missing in Action	Narrator	0
44	1993	Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time	The Brigadier	44
45	1993	30 Years in the TARDIS	Himself / Narrator	75
46	1993	UNIT Recruiting Film	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)	0
47	1994	Myth Makers 28: Sylvester McCoy	Self	0
48	1995	Downtime	Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart	49
49	1995	The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond		0
50	1997	Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised		0
51	1998	Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?		90
52	1998	Lust in Space	Time Judge / self	0
53	2000	TravelWise	Alistair Singleton	0
54	2001	ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis		0
55	2002	Doctor at Sea		0
56	2002	Chronotrip		40
57	2002	Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time	The Brigadier	0
58	2003	The Story of Doctor Who		0
59	2007	Rogue Time Lords		0
60	2008	Incendiary	Archbishop of Canterbury	54
61	2008	Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983		0
62	2008	The Ties That Bind Us	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)	0
63	2013	A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee	(archive footage)	0
64	2017	The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years		0
65	2021	Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3	Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)	0
66	2021	Nick & Caroline: Uncut!		0
67	2025	Doctor Who: Downtime	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	No Hiding Place		37
2	1961	The Avengers	Gifford	77
3	1962	The Saint	Alain	73
4	1963	Doctor Who	Col. Lethbridge-Stewart	79
5	1963	Doctor Who	Tourist (uncredited)	79
6	1963	Doctor Who	Bret Vyon	79
7	1963	Doctor Who	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	79
8	1964	Victoria Regina	Tudor	0
9	1965	The Man in Room 17	Gilles	53
10	1967	Callan		70
11	1968	The Champions	Doctor Farley	61
12	1969	The Main Chance	James Harding	77
13	1969	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Max	70
14	1970	Doomwatch	Phillip	60
15	1971	Jason King		73
16	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Hutchinson Hatch	73
17	1978	All Creatures Great and Small	Paul Cotterell	77
18	1979	Shelley		78
19	1979	Minder	Raymond Wilkins	68
20	1984	The Bill		67
21	1986	Yes, Prime Minister		84
22	1986	Casualty	Claude Devigny	61
23	1989	French Fields	Marquis	72
24	1993	Then Churchill Said to Me		55
25	1996	Satellite City		0
26	1999	Sir Bernard's Stately Homes		70
27	2000	Doctors		48
28	2005	Doctor Who Confidential		81
29	2007	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart	71
30	2023	Tales of the Tardis	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart	44