Bradley Walsh (born 4 June 1960[1]) played the Thirteenth Doctor companion Graham O'Brien in series 11 and series 12 of Doctor Who. Walsh also played Elijah Spellman/Odd Bob the Clown/Pied Piper in The Sarah Jane Adventures, in the story The Day of the Clown.
He was the only actor who portrayed a member of Team Tardis who didn't have to audition unlike his co-stars.
Walsh is the oldest actor to play an ongoing companion on Doctor Who, though Lindsay Duncan and Bernard Cribbins were older when they played one-off companions Adelaide Brooke and Wilfred Mott, respectively.
Career
Outside of Doctor Who, Walsh is best known for presenting the ITV game show The Chase and the TV revival of Blankety Blank. He also appeared in Coronation Street between 2004 and 2006 as Mike Baldwin's nephew Danny, and presented Wheel of Fortune, another ITV game show, in 1997. He also appeared alongside son Barney Walsh in the 2020 ITV travelogue series Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad, which was referenced in the DWM 549 edition of The Daft Dimension.
In the DWU
Bradley Walsh was mentioned in passing (but not by name) in the 2018 novel The Good Doctor by Juno Dawson. He also had a visual cameo in The Zygon Isolation, released in 2020.
Credits
Television
Doctor Who
- The Woman Who Fell to Earth
- The Ghost Monument
- Rosa
- Arachnids in the UK
- The Tsuranga Conundrum
- Demons of the Punjab
- Kerblam!
- The Witchfinders
- It Takes You Away
- The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
- Resolution
- Spyfall
- Orphan 55
- Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
- Fugitive of the Judoon
- Praxeus
- Can You Hear Me?
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati
- Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children
- Revolution of the Daleks
- The Power of the Doctor
Other Roles
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Documentary appearances
Closer Look
- Rosa
- The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
- Spyfall Part 1
- Spyfall Part 2
- Orphan 55
- Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
- Praxeus
- Can You Hear Me?
- Ascension of the Cybermen
- Revolution of the Daleks
Series 11 Documentaries
- Becoming The Thirteenth Doctor (DVD and Blu-ray version)
- Meet the Friends of the Doctor (online version)
- Directing Episode One (DVD and Blu-ray version)
- Making of the New Years Day Special
- Making the Dalek
Series 12 Documentaries
Series 13 Documentaries
- The Power of the Doctor: Behind the Scenes
DVD and Blu-ray
- Best of Social
- Series 11 Look Back
- Series 12 Preview