Actor
David Gooderson
February 24, 1941 · Lahore, Punjab, British India
David Richard Gooderson (born 24 February 1941) is an Indian-born British actor and writer who has appeared in several television roles.
As well as portraying Davros in the Doctor Who serial Destiny of the Daleks, he appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Mapp & Lucia and A Touch of Frost. Gooderson was also featured on many radio programmes for the BBC, including The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately with Bill Wallis, David Jason, Denise Coffey and Jonathan Cecil and Huddwinks with Roy Hudd and others. He wrote several plays for stage and radio broadcast, and published several books about Kenneth Grahame.
Notable work
Often works with
Louise Jameson
3 titles together
Doctor Who, Bergerac, Tenko
Tom Baker
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Lalla Ward
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Maggie Ollerenshaw
2 titles together
Lovejoy, Fairies
Denys Graham
2 titles together
Lovejoy, Rumpole of the Bailey
Terence Alexander
2 titles together
Bergerac, Happy Ever After
Full filmography · 22
Cuffs
as Lewis Gardener
20156.7
Footballers' Wives
as Minister
20025.4
Johnny and the Dead
as Councillor
1995
A Touch of Frost
as Derek Simpkins and as Pathologist
19927.5
Murder Most Horrid
as Bert and as First Patient
1991
The Paradise Club
as Jack Pringle
1989
Lovejoy
as Cyril Catchpole
19867.4
Mapp & Lucia
as Mr Woolgar
1985
Codename Icarus
as Maths Teacher
1981
Tenko
as Major Sims
1981
Bergerac
as Sidney Le Blanc
19817
Hazell
as Shop Assistant
1978