Cast & creator

Bruce Purchase

1938-10-02 (died at 69) Thames, New ZealandIMDb

Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, Play for Today

Movies

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

1951–2007 · acting roles

Credit score

6.8

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 7.9

Doctor Who

Acting · 1963

★ 7.9

Doctor Who

Captain · 1963

★ 6.6

Play for Today

Jake · 1970

★ 6.6

Play for Today

Goff · 1970

★ 5.2

BBC Play of the Month

Taffy · 1965

Across film & television

Filmography (57)

Showing 57 of 57 credits

Series

★ 7.9

Doctor Who

1963

Series

★ 7.9

Doctor Who

Captain

1963

Series

★ 6.6

Play for Today

Jake

1970

Series

★ 6.6

Play for Today

Goff

1970

Series

★ 5.2

BBC Play of the Month

Taffy

1965

Series

★ 7.1

Rumpole of the Bailey

Leslie Delgado

1975

Series

★ 7.3

Blake's 7

Gola

1978

Series

★ 7.0

BBC2 Play of the Week

Ernest

1977

Series

★ 7.2

The New Avengers

Prof. Lopez

1976

Series

★ 6.8

Quatermass

Tommy Roach

1979

Series

★ 7.8

I, Claudius

Sabinus

1976

Series

★ 7.0

Callan

1967

Series

★ 7.0

Callan

Det. Sgt. Lynn

1967

Series

★ 6.4

Doomwatch

Norman Sylvester

1970

Series

★ 7.0

Fall of Eagles

Von Plehve

1974

Series

★ 8.8

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Cook

1951

Series

★ 5.6

Killer Net

Pathologist

1998

Series

★ 7.2

Supernatural

Herr Steekebeck

1977

Series

★ 7.2

The Tripods

1984

Series

★ 6.0

Clayhanger

Big James

1976

Series

★ 7.0

A Horseman Riding By

Parson Augustus Bull

1978

Series

★ 5.0

Freud

Professor Nothnagel

1984

Movie

★ 6.7

All Quiet on the Western Front

Cook (uncredited)

1979

Series

Looking for Clancy

Basil Rudering

1975

Series

★ 7.1

Kidnapped

Cumberland

1979

Movie

★ 6.8

Richard III

City Gentleman

1995

Movie

★ 6.7

Mary, Queen of Scots

Morton

1971

Movie

★ 6.6

David

Isai

1997

Movie

★ 7.1

Macbeth

Caithness

1971

Series

★ 9.0

Anna of the Five Towns

Tom Kelly

1985

Movie

★ 5.2

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

Additional voices (voice)

1992

Movie

★ 6.8

Esther

Hauptmann der Wache

1999

Series

★ 6.0

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

Father

1973

Movie

Parrot Fashion

2007

Movie

★ 4.6

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

Colonel Meinertzhagen (uncredited)

1974

Movie

★ 7.5

Pope John Paul II

Jerzy Loparicz

1984

Movie

★ 4.1

Casanova

1987

Movie

★ 6.2

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Provost

1976

Movie

★ 6.7

Meetings with Remarkable Men

Father Maxim

1979

Movie

★ 5.6

Lionheart

Simon Nerra

1987

Movie

★ 7.2

Henry IV Part 1

Henry Percy

1979

Movie

★ 8.5

Henry IV Part 2

Earl of Northumberland

1979

Movie

Atlantis

Goff

1983

Movie

★ 6.3

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Walrus / Guard

1973

Movie

★ 7.4

Doctor Who: Logopolis

The Captain (archive footage)

1981

Movie

★ 7.0

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

The Pirate Captain

1978

Movie

★ 8.0

The Sea Change

Oldberg

1998

Movie

★ 6.8

The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

Moishe

1984

Movie

★ 6.0

Playing Away

Fredrick

1987

Movie

★ 5.7

Another Life

Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett

2001

Movie

★ 6.7

The Optimists of Nine Elms

Policeman

1973

Movie

★ 6.4

Othello

Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots

1965

Movie

★ 4.2

The Quatermass Conclusion

Tommy Roach

1979

Movie

★ 7.7

Other Halves

Irwin

1984

Movie

★ 10.0

The Secret Agent

Mr. Michaelis

1975

Movie

★ 9.0

Exiles

Ernest Hemingway

1977

Movie

Even Solomon

Jake

1979