Peter Capaldi

Peter Capaldi

1958-04-14 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 101 Credits

Biography

Peter Dougan Capaldi (born April 14, 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role in In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche...

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Doctor Who: Unleashed - 20 Years of New Who in Wales

Doctor Who: Unleashed - 20 Years of New Who in Wales

2025

as Self (Archive Footage)

7.8
Acting

Twenty years ago, Doctor Who began filming in Wales. This fun and insightful documentary gives inside secrets from the cast, crew and writers, past an...

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

3.6
Acting

Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still...

The Academy of Armando

The Academy of Armando

2025

as Self

Acting

Alan Yentob profiles the stellar career of one of the great satirists of our age, Armando Iannucci, whose impressive body of work includes The Day Tod...

Doctor Who at the Proms

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (12) (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially sho...

Riverwoods: An Untold Story

Riverwoods: An Untold Story

2022

as Narrator

Acting

Three years in the making, this feature-length documentary shines a light on the perilous state of Scotland’s salmon, and tells the compelling story o...

Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life

Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life

2021

as Self

10.0
Acting

The illustrator and author paints scenes from a 70-year-long career, including his work with Roald Dahl. With David Walliams, Joanna Lumley, Peter Cap...

Benediction

Benediction

2021

as Siegfried Sassoon (Older)

6.2
Acting

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the gov...

National Theatre Live: Constellations

National Theatre Live: Constellations

2021

as Roland

10.0
Acting

A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate...

But Why?

But Why?

2021

as Older Man

5.7
Acting

An elegy to time and life, condensing Terence Davies' profoundly humane poetics into little more than one minute, enveloping the viewer in an atmosphe...

The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad

2021

as Thinker

7.5
Acting

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X...

Martin's Close

Martin's Close

2019

as Dolben

5.6
Acting

A young squire accused of murdering a young girl that did not return his feelings of love reveals a supernatural secret at his trial.

The Personal History of David Copperfield

The Personal History of David Copperfield

2019

as Mr. Micawber

6.4
Acting

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chron...

How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery

How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery

2019

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

Documentary following researchers as they try to take the first-ever picture of a black hole. They must travel the globe to build a revolutionary tele...

Christopher Robin

Christopher Robin

2018

as Rabbit (voice)

7.3
Acting

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and lovea...

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

2017

as The Doctor (12)

8.0
Acting

As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a fami...

Paddington 2

Paddington 2

2017

as Reginald Curry

7.5
Acting

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

2016

as The Doctor

7.5
Acting

When brain-swapping aliens attack New York, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious masked superhero known only...

Prison, My Parents & Me

Prison, My Parents & Me

2016

as Narrator

Acting

Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight int...

Friend from the Future

Friend from the Future

2016

as The Doctor

Acting
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

as The Doctor

8.0
Acting

It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon...

Doctor Who: Sleep No More

Doctor Who: Sleep No More

2015

as Twelfth Doctor

Acting

The Le Verrier space station fell silent only a day ago. No-one really knows what happened. However, some footage of the attempted rescue mission was ...

Doctor Who : Under the Lake / Before The Flood

Doctor Who : Under the Lake / Before The Flood

2015

as Twelfth Doctor

9.0
Acting

The crew of an underwater mining facility in Caithness, Scotland in 2119 discover an alien craft in the ruins of a submerged town. They bring it aboar...

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation

2015

as The Doctor

10.0
Acting

The Doctor contemplates a journey to see an old acquaintance and digs a well. Released in cinemas alongside the 3D double-bill of Dark Water and Death...

Doctor Who: Last Christmas

Doctor Who: Last Christmas

2014

as The Doctor

7.8
Acting

The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Cl...

Paddington

Paddington

2014

as Reginald Curry

7.1
Acting

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, w...

Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven

Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven

2014

as The Doctor

8.0
Acting

In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the stree...

Doctor Who: Deep Breath

Doctor Who: Deep Breath

2014

as The Doctor (12)

7.7
Acting

The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite wit...

Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour

Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour

2014

as Self

7.2
Acting

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman embark on a global tour to key cities across the planet - taking in Cardiff, London, Seoul, Sydney, New York, Mexico C...

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

2014

as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

8.1
Acting

Peter Davison is on a new journey to discover everything he can about the Doctor's Companion. What exactly is a companion's role, how do you actually ...

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (12)

8.1
Acting

Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the ...

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

2013

as Self - Presenter

Acting

Famous for lines like 'It is better to be feared than loved', Machiavelli's notorious book, The Prince, has been a manual for tyrants from Napoleon to...

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (12) (uncredited)

8.2
Acting

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...

The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate

2013

as Alan Rusbridger

6.0
Acting

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the ...

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013

as Self

5.0
Acting

Zoe Ball hosts a live celebration in which the next actor to land Doctor Who's lead role is revealed, in the company of former cast members and celebr...

World War Z

World War Z

2013

as W.H.O. Doctor

6.8
Acting

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning ...

Inside the Mind of Leonardo

Inside the Mind of Leonardo

2013

as Leonardo da Vinci

7.0
Acting

Inside The Mind of Leonardo is based on the artist’s private journals dating from the Italian Renaissance. With over 6,000 pages of handwritten notes ...

The Cricklewood Greats

The Cricklewood Greats

2012

as Himself

7.0
Acting

Peter Capaldi embarks upon a personal journey to discover the shocking history of the stars of north London's famous film studios, Cricklewood Film St...

The Cricklewood Greats

The Cricklewood Greats

2012

Writer, Director

7.0
Writing Directing

Peter Capaldi embarks upon a personal journey to discover the shocking history of the stars of north London's famous film studios, Cricklewood Film St...

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster

2011

as Peter Van Gellis

3.2
Acting

After sixteen years at Her Majesty's Pleasure, Britain's hardest man is released from prison, and into the care of a documentary film crew headed by a...

The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite

The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite

2011

Acting
The Murder at Road Hill House

The Murder at Road Hill House

2011

as Samuel Kent

6.2
Acting

In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was ...

Bistro

2010

as Max

10.0
Acting

A restaurant diner is unable to make a pig of himself.

A Portrait of Scotland

2009

as Self - Presenter

Acting

A 400+ year history of major Scottish portrait painters, from the Enlightenment through modern times.

In the Loop

In the Loop

2009

as Malcolm Tucker

7.0
Acting

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers...

Spinners and Losers

Spinners and Losers

2007

as Malcolm Tucker

8.3
Acting

Peter Mannion's speech on immigration, leaking the PM's policy, did not have the effect Tucker desired and now the PM is resigning, leaving the way cl...

Magicians

Magicians

2007

as Mike Francis

5.9
Acting

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

The Rise of the Nutters

The Rise of the Nutters

2007

as Malcolm Tucker

8.3
Acting

With Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior minister Ben Swain. He is one of the 'Nutters', the gro...

Aftersun

Aftersun

2006

as Jim

8.0
Acting

Jim and Sue married young and 20 years later find themselves on holiday in Spain - an anniversary present from their children - with very little to sa...

Pinochet in Suburbia

Pinochet in Suburbia

2006

as Andy McEntee

6.0
Acting

In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to ...

Wild Country

Wild Country

2005

as Father Steve

4.1
Acting

A group of friends are pursued by a sinister force after rescuing an abandoned child.

Michael Powell

Michael Powell

2005

as Narrator

Acting

The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews ma...

The Best Man

The Best Man

2005

as Priest

5.4
Acting

When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start t...

House of 9

House of 9

2005

as Max Roy

5.0
Acting

Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they mu...

Salvage

Salvage

2004

as James Mulwray

6.0
Acting

A man suffering from sex addiction seeks help.

Napoleon's Waterloo

Napoleon's Waterloo

2004

as Narrator

Acting

Documentary about the conflict at Waterloo and Napoleon's personal rivalry with Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington.

Modigliani

Modigliani

2004

as Jean Cocteau

7.1
Acting

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo...

Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)

Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)

2004

as John

4.3
Acting

Jet lives a joyful life working at a factory with his girlfriend who he's deeply in love with. Shortly after they decide to get married and live toget...

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

2003

as Derek

7.0
Acting

After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.

Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love

2003

as DI Terry Machin

6.0
Acting

A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom.

Max

Max

2002

as David Cohn

6.1
Acting

In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at p...

Solid Geometry

Solid Geometry

2002

as David Hunter

4.7
Acting

A successful young man's world view is turned upside-down when he inherits his great-great-grandfather's diaries, and starts pursuing the mystical geo...

Strictly Sinatra

Strictly Sinatra

2001

Director, Writer

4.8
Directing Writing

In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his onl...

Hotel!

Hotel!

2001

as Hilton Gilfoyle

4.5
Acting

The US president unexpectedly checks into a sleepy hotel in the heart of England, where he is held hostage by terrorists and, even worse, attended to ...

The Greatest Store in the World

The Greatest Store in the World

1999

as Mr. Whiskers

4.8
Acting

Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternativ...

What Rats Won't Do

What Rats Won't Do

1998

as Tony

5.0
Acting

Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has...

Boswell's Boswell

1998

as James Boswell (voice)

Acting

A look at the life of James Boswell.

I Hate Christmas Too

I Hate Christmas Too

1997

as Man

6.0
Acting

An unhappy man has an encounter with the ghost of a World War I soldier, who tells him about the 1914 Christmas truce and gives him a new perspective ...

Shooting Fish

Shooting Fish

1997

as Mr Gilzean

6.3
Acting

Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

Bean

Bean

1997

as Gareth

6.5
Acting

Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

as Birgo Lander

6.3
Acting

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...

The Treasure Seekers

The Treasure Seekers

1996

as Jellicoe

5.3
Acting

Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.

Giving Tongue

1996

as Duncan Fielding

1.0
Acting

Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she hunt...

Runway One

1995

as Mick Galligan

Acting

An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation.

Captives

Captives

1994

as Simon

5.9
Acting

A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and emb...

Jealousy

Jealousy

1993

as John

Acting

Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair ...

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

1993

as David Critchley

6.5
Acting

Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "...

Selling Hitler

Selling Hitler

1993

as Thomas Walde

7.0
Acting

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop ...

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

1993

as Gavin Bellini

6.2
Acting

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name i...

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

1993

Writer

6.2
Writing

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name i...

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

1993

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

Franz Kafka has been stricken with a serious case of writer's block on Christmas Eve. He's trying to get started on his latest short story, "The Metam...

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

1992

as Mr Vladimir

8.0
Acting

1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to...

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

1992

as Luke Wakefield

4.5
Acting

Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour ...

The Cloning of Joanna May

The Cloning of Joanna May

1992

as Isaac

7.0
Acting

Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught...

Do Not Disturb

1991

Acting

When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writ...

December Bride

December Bride

1990

as Young Sorleyson

6.9
Acting

At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, sh...

Triple Scotch & Wry

Triple Scotch & Wry

1990

Writer

Writing

More comedy sketches from Scottish comedian Rikki Fulton. Characters include: Michael Jackson - from Jordanhill; Shirley Bassey - from Bearsden; Jonat...

Rosie the Great

Rosie the Great

1989

as The British Ambassador

Acting

The British Government wants to ruin the island of Longsea with a military base that they’re pushing forward with even after the Island’s council demo...

Dream Baby

Dream Baby

1989

as Willie

Acting

Annie Kirk's life is in chaos. She is broke, unemployed, can't pay her poll tax and has two boyfriends she wants to be shot of. She is determined to b...

Communicators From Hell

Communicators From Hell

1989

Acting

John Cleese training video.

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

1988

as Azolan

7.2
Acting

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...

The Love Child

The Love Child

1988

as Dillon

7.0
Acting

When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more t...

The Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm

1988

as Angus Flint

5.9
Acting

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable o...

The Story of a Recluse

The Story of a Recluse

1987

as Jamie Kirkwood

Acting

Fragment of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, completed by Alasdair Gray. A dissolute medical student wakes up in the bedroom of a young woman who fa...

Up Line

Up Line

1987

as Scott Dare

Acting

Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deployi...

God's Chosen Car Park

1986

as Everard

Acting

Nathaniel Box, a self-styled prophet, along with his daughter Barbara and her fiancé Curtis, holds a night time press conference in an underground car...

Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary

1985

as Assistant Keeper

6.5
Acting

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd,...

John and Yoko: A Love Story

John and Yoko: A Love Story

1985

as George Harrison

5.7
Acting

Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

Local Hero

Local Hero

1983

as Danny Oldsen

6.7
Acting

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Living Apart Together

Living Apart Together

1982

as Joe

Acting

Starring musician B.A. Robertson as Ritchie Hannah a singer/songwriter returning to his mediocre life in Glasgow after the death of a friend Living Ap...

Lost for Words

N/A

as The Tourist

Acting

An account of the events that led a young tourist to permanent silence, after taking shelter with a peasant family whose dog he helped to exterminate.

Doctor Who: Heaven Sent / Hell Bent

N/A

as The Doctor

Acting

Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone....