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Acting

Donald Pickering

Career: Active from 1960 to 1992, with up to 1 main title a year.

Leading roles: 2
top three billing

Average score: 67/100

Highest rated: Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
77/100

Characters

1

The characters Donald Pickering played, best-known titles first.

Donald Pickering as Doctor Watson

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Donald Pickering Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.5, average 5.4
Melancholy
3.3, average 4.7
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0
Pathos
4.1, average 5.3

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Doctor Who 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

77

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 76

Victoria & Albert

76

as Dr. Locock

1990s

10 titles · average score 64

Monk Dawson

as Archbishop of Westminster

The Man Who Knew Too Little

51

as Sir Duncan

Wycliffe

70

TV show · as Sir Martin Cook

Scarlett

65

TV show · as Randolph

Good King Wenceslas

53

as Kyril

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Andrew Parkin

Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors

as Prince Philip

The Camomile Lawn

65

TV show · as George

The Brittas Empire

68

TV show

Who Bombed Birmingham?

as Douglas Hurd, Foreign Secretary

1980s

12 titles · average score 66

The Contract

TV show · as Permanent Undersecretary

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

62

TV show · as Lord Frankham

Doctor Who: Time and the Rani

as Beyus

Executive Stress

TV show

Lovejoy

50

TV show · as Sir Roger

Yes, Prime Minister

87

TV show

Half Moon Street

49

as George Hardcastle

John Silver's Return to Treasure Island

86

TV show · as Hallows

Scarab

54

as Harrington

The Cleopatras

TV show · as Lucullus

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

70

TV show · as Dr. Watson

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Captain George Melbeck

1970s

24 titles · average score 69

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Gallery Owner

Dick Turpin

73

TV show · as Lord Manderfell

All Creatures Great and Small

54

TV show · as Sir Robert

Return of the Saint

68

TV show · as Sir Trevor Stevens

The Professionals

78

TV show · as Brigadier Tennant

A Bridge Too Far

68

as Lt. Col. Mackenzie

Rumpole of the Bailey

77

TV show · as Attorney General / Gavin Bastion

The Pallisers

73

TV show · as Dolly Longstaffe

The Persuaders!

78

TV show · as Morley Lyndon

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

73

TV show · as Fielding

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Angus Nash

The Breaking of Bumbo

as Jorum

1960s

26 titles · average score 71

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Howerd

The Champions

70

TV show · as Colonel Banks

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

77

as Blade

Fahrenheit 451

71

as TV Announcer (uncredited)

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as George Farrant / Monty Cave

Gideon's Way

75

TV show · as 'Bookie' Barton Smith

Out of the Unknown

73

TV show · as Kenneth Dennistoun

The Troubleshooters

TV show · as Dee / Mark Benson-Taylor

Theatre 625

TV show · as Colonel Edmund Heines

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Beyus / Eyesen

The Saint

74

TV show · as Jeremy

The Avengers

83

TV show · as Freddie Cartwright / Peter Roberts

1950s

4 titles · average score 56

No Hiding Place

TV show

Doctor at Large

50

as Cyril (uncredited)

Carry On Admiral

39

as Second Officer (uncredited)

The Wonderful World of Disney

81

TV show · as Sir John Burnside