Pete Tyler was Rose’s father, killed when she was only a baby. When she persuaded The Doctor to take her back to see him she prevented his death, only to unleash the ‘Reapers’ on the world. Pete, a wide boy who dreamed of making it rich with one of his money-making schemes proved his courage by going out and letting himself be killed in a car accident as he was meant to have done, in order to set history straight and save the world.

Later, The Doctor and Rose met an alternative universe version of Pete who was rich and successful but estranged from his wife. He was working as an undercover agent within Lumic’s organisation and helped Rose infiltrate the Cybermen’s base of operations. But his wife, Jackie, had already been killed by them. Later, he and a group of fighter crossed the void to the universe where Pete was dead but Jackie was alive to fight the Dalek and Cyberman double threat. He took Jackie with him back to his universe and later returned to rescue Rose from certain death, the whole family being reunited in the alternative universe but cut off from The Doctor.

Shaun Dingwall was born in 1972 in London. From the mid 1990s onwards he was a well known regular face on TV. He appeared in ITV's police thriller serial, Touching Evil from 1997 to 1999, and later appeared in a guest role in BBC Two's adaptation of The Long Firm in 2004. He appeared as Scipio Africanus in the 2006 BBC docu-drama Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare.

In 2002, he appeared as Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby in the BBC One serial Charles II: The Power and the Passion, a series chronicling the life and times of Charles II.

In 2005, he became a household name after he appeared as Pete Tyler in Doctor Who. He portrayed the same character, the father of The Doctor’s companion, Rose, from a parallel universe in the episodes "Rise of the Cybermen", "The Age of Steel" and "Doomsday" in the 2006 series. Soon after he recorded an abridged audio book of the Doctor Who novel The Price of Paradise by Colin Brake. Later that year he appeared as a radical Christian assassin in a fifth series episode of the BBC spy thriller series Spooks. In 2007 he had a strong role in the film The Mark of Cain about prisoner abuses in Iraq and has several more projects ongoing.

Film and TV

"Doctor Who" .... Pete Tyler (4 episodes, 2005-2006)
- Doomsday (2006) TV Episode .... Pete Tyler
- The Age of Steel (2006) TV Episode .... Pete Tyler
- Rise of the Cybermen (2006) TV Episode .... Pete Tyler
- Father's Day (2005) TV Episode .... Pete Tyler

Sex, the City and Me (2007) (TV) (post-production) .... Tony
Learners (2007) (TV) (post-production) .... Ian
Outlanders (2007) (completed) .... DI Cartwright
The Mark of Cain (2007)
Someone Else (2006) .... Michael
Hannibal (2006) (TV) .... Scipio
Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story (2005) .... Maitre D'
On a Clear Day (2005) .... Observer
The Boy with Blue Eyes (2004) .... The Father
The Long Firm (2004) (TV) .... Lenny
"Family Business" .... Andy Sullivan (1 episode, 2004)
- Episode #1.3 (2004) TV Episode .... Andy Sullivan
"Charles II: The Power & the Passion" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... Earl of Danby
Carla (2003) (TV) .... Paul
Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (2002) (TV) .... Daniel Jameson
Tomorrow La Scala! (2002) .... Kevin
Villa des roses (2002) .... Richard Grünewald
Crime and Punishment (2002) (TV) .... Razhumikin
"In a Land of Plenty" (2001) TV Series .... James Freeman (unknown episodes)
Lloyd & Hill (2001) (TV) .... Patrick Murray
Underground (1999) (TV) .... Jake
"Touching Evil III" (1999) (mini) TV Series .... D.C. Mark Rivers
"Touching Evil II" (1998) (mini) TV Series .... D.C. Mark Rivers
... aka Mystery!: Touching Evil II (USA: series title)
"The Phoenix and the Carpet" (1997) (mini) TV Series .... Burglar
"Touching Evil" (1997) (mini) TV Series .... D.C. Mark Rivers
"Soldier Soldier" .... LCpl. Steve Evans (3 episodes, 1995-1996)
- Walking on Air (1996) TV Episode .... LCpl. Steve Evans
- Stick Together (1995) TV Episode .... LCpl. Steve Evans
- Far Away (1995) TV Episode .... LCpl. Steve Evans
Second Best (1994) .... Graham, age 20
A Breed of Heroes (1994) (TV) .... Lance-Corporal
"The Bill" .... Colin Drake (1 episode, 1994)
- On the Latch (1994) TV Episode .... Colin Drake
No Man's Land (1994) (TV) .... Schuster
Low Level Panic (1994) (TV) .... Man A
"Between the Lines" .... PC Curles (1 episode, 1993)
- Jumping the Lights (1993) TV Episode .... PC Curles
Genghis Cohn (1993) (TV) .... Sergeant Hubsch