
David Gooderson
Department: Acting
Biography
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. Gooderson was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, and featured in the cast of the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of.
Known For

Doctor Who: Risen
2021

Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
1979

Claws
1987

Davros Connections
2007

Fairies
1978

The Doctors: Villains!
2018

Return to Skaro
2021

Doctor Who
1963

A Touch of Frost
1992

Lovejoy
1986

Tenko
1981

Bergerac
1981

A Touch of Frost
1992

The Paradise Club
1989

Footballers' Wives
2002

Johnny and the Dead
1995

The Adventures of Don Quick
1970

Hazell
1978

Mapp & Lucia
1985

Codename Icarus
1981

Cuffs
2015

Murder Most Horrid
1991

Murder Most Horrid
1991