Peter Purves
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Peter Purves at The Television & Movie Store, Norwich, England, on 28 March 2009.
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| Born |
Peter John Purves 10 February 1939 Preston, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Actor and television presenter |
| Notable work |
Steven Taylor in Doctor Who (1965–1966) Blue Peter Presenter (1967–1978) |
| Spouse(s) | Gilly Fraser (divorced) |
| Website | http://www.peterpurves.net |
Peter Purves (born 10 February 1939) is an English television presenter who is best known for being a presenter on the BBC children's programme Blue Peter. After his eleven years on the programme, he has continued to make regular appearances since then. In particular, Purves has been associated with television coverage of the Crufts dog show.
Purves is also an actor and played the character of Steven Taylor in Doctor Who when the Doctor was played by William Hartnell, a role he continues to portray in audio dramas for Big Finish Productions.
Purves was born in New Longton, near Preston, Lancashire. His father was a tailor who also ran a hotel in Blackpool for a short period. He was educated at the independent Arnold School in Blackpool and in the sixth form at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School for Boys for a year, where he took A-levels and gained a pass in mathematics. He originally planned to go into teaching, training at Alsager College of Education, but began to act with the Barrow-in-Furness Repertory Company instead.
Purves first appeared on the show in the role of Morton Dill in "The Chase" after being cast by director Richard Martin.
At twenty-six years old, Purves first became known to television audiences in 1965 as Steven Taylor, one of the early time-travelling companions in the programme Doctor Who, when the Doctor was played by William Hartnell. He has provided DVD commentaries for many of the surviving Doctor Who episodes he appeared in and documents the making of each of his Doctor Who stories in his autobiography, Here's One I Wrote Earlier. He was also a good friend of the actor Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor.
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