Nicholas Courtney

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Cairo, Egypt

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

16 December 1929, 95 years old

Known For

Incendiary

Doppelgänger

Endless Night

The Brides of Fu Manchu

Bullseye!

Take a Girl Like You

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Doctor Who: Downtime

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

2025

Nick & Caroline: Uncut!

2021

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

2021

The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years

2017

Doctor Who: Yellow Fever and How to Cure It

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

2013

A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

(archive footage)

2013

Remembering Nicholas Courtney

Self

2013

Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor

Self (voice)

2011

Tomorrow's Times: The Eighth Doctor

Self

2010

Tomorrow's Times: The Second Doctor

Self - (Voice)

2010

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Self

2009

Liberty Hall

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

2009

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)

2008

Five Doctors, One Studio

2008

Incendiary

Archbishop of Canterbury

2008

Going Underground

Self

2008

What Lies Beneath

Self

2008

Rogue Time Lords

2007

Evolution of The Invasion

Self

2006

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

The Brigadier

2002

Chronotrip

2002

Doctor at Sea

2002

ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

2001

TravelWise

Alistair Singleton

2000

Lust in Space

Time Judge / self

1998

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

1998

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

1997

Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado

Self

1997

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

1995

Downtime

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

1995

Myth Makers 28: Sylvester McCoy

Self

1994

UNIT Recruiting Film

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

1993

30 Years in the TARDIS

Himself / Narrator

1993

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

The Brigadier

1993

Missing in Action

Self - Narrator

1993

Return to Devil's End

Self

1993

Born Kicking

Tim Ayling

1992

The Corridor Sketch

Sir Horace

1991

Bullseye!

Sir Hugh

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

1990

Doctor Who: Battlefield

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1989

Wartime

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

1988

Myth Runner

Himself

1987

Myth Makers 12: Ian Marter

1986

Myth Makers 3: Nicholas Courtney

1985

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

The Brigadier (archive footage) (uncredited)

1984

To Catch a King

de Oliveira

1984

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Brig. Lethbridge-Stewart

1983

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

1983

Doctor Who: Logopolis

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)

1981

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1975

Doctor Who: Robot

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1975

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1974

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1974

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

French Intelligence Officer

1974

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1974

Doctor Who: The Green Death

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1973

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1973

Endless Night

Second Auctioneer (uncredited)

1972

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1972

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1972

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1971

Doctor Who: Colony in Space

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1971

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1971

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1971

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1971

Take a Girl Like You

Panel Chairman

1970

Doctor Who: Inferno

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart / Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart

1970

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1970

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1970

Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1970

Doppelgänger

Data Analyst

1969

Doctor Who: The Invasion

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

1968

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart

1968

The Brides of Fu Manchu

Sergeant

1966

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

Bret Vyon

1966

The End of Arthur's Marriage

Husband

1965