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Peter McEnery
AttoreBorn February 21, 1940 (85 years)
Peter Robert McEnery (born 21 February 1940) is a retired English stage and film actor.
McEnery was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, to Charles and Ada Mary (née Brinson) McEnery. He was educated at Ellesmere College, Shropshire.
His younger brothers are actor John and the photographer David.
McEnery appeared in Victim, a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden in which McEnery plays Barrett, a young working-class gay man who falls prey to blackmailers after he and the titular character are photographed in an intimate embrace. McEnery also starred alongside Hayley Mills in the 1964 film The Moon-Spinners. In 1966 he took the lead in the Disney adventure film, The Fighting Prince of Donegal. He played Edwin Clayhanger in the television dramatisation of the novels by Arnold Bennett with support from Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews and Clive Swift. He played Mr Sloane in Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970).
As an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company he played the title role in Ron Daniel's 1979 production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre at The Other Place and played several roles in the 1982 epic production of Nicholas Nickleby for the same company. In 1981 he played Oberon in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Another stage role was that of the surgeon Treves in the National Theatre's 1980 production of The Elephant Man.
McEnery married Julie Peasgood in 1978. They met in 1975 when she played a maid called Ada in the Clayhanger television series in which McEnery starred. Their daughter Kate was born in 1981. They later divorced. In 2007 he married actress Julia St John.
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McEnery was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, to Charles and Ada Mary (née Brinson) McEnery. He was educated at Ellesmere College, Shropshire.
His younger brothers are actor John and the photographer David.
McEnery appeared in Victim, a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden in which McEnery plays Barrett, a young working-class gay man who falls prey to blackmailers after he and the titular character are photographed in an intimate embrace. McEnery also starred alongside Hayley Mills in the 1964 film The Moon-Spinners. In 1966 he took the lead in the Disney adventure film, The Fighting Prince of Donegal. He played Edwin Clayhanger in the television dramatisation of the novels by Arnold Bennett with support from Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews and Clive Swift. He played Mr Sloane in Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970).
As an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company he played the title role in Ron Daniel's 1979 production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre at The Other Place and played several roles in the 1982 epic production of Nicholas Nickleby for the same company. In 1981 he played Oberon in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Another stage role was that of the surgeon Treves in the National Theatre's 1980 production of The Elephant Man.
McEnery married Julie Peasgood in 1978. They met in 1975 when she played a maid called Ada in the Clayhanger television series in which McEnery starred. Their daughter Kate was born in 1981. They later divorced. In 2007 he married actress Julia St John.
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Peter McEnery Filmography
| 2008 | Scalp (TV Series) · as Coolet |
| 1996 | Lucky Punch · as Flaherty |
| 1994 | All Quiet on the Preston Front (TV Series) · as Frazer Minshull |
| 1992 | Witchcraft (TV Series) · as Jamie Matheson |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse (TV Series) · as Donald Phillipson |
| 1986 | |
| 1985 | Florence Nightingale · as Sidney Herbert |
| 1981 | A Midsummer Night's Dream · as Oberon |
| 1980 | The Mark of Satan · as Edwyn |
| 1980 | Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) · as Edwyn |
| 1979 | The Aphrodite Inheritance (TV Series) · as David Collier |
| 1978 | The Cat and the Canary · as Charlie Wilder |
| 1976 | Clayhanger (TV Series) · as Edwin Clayhanger |
| 1975 | Footprints on the Moon · as Henry |
| 1973 | Tales That Witness Madness · as Timothy Patrick (segment "penny Farthing") |
| 1970 | Atlantic Wall · as Jeff, The Downed British Airman |
| 1970 | The Adventures of Gerard · as Col. Etienne Gerard (hussars Of Conflans) |
| 1970 | Entertaining Mr Sloane · as Mr. Sloane |
| 1968 | Better a Widow · as Tom Proby |
| 1968 | Negatives · as Theo |
| 1968 | The Other People · as Peter |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Modigliani |
| 1967 | J'ai tué Raspoutine · as Prince Felix Yusupov |
| 1966 | The Fighting Prince of Donegal · as Hugh O'donnell |
| 1966 | The Game Is Over · as Maxime Saccard |
| 1964 | The Moon-Spinners · as Mark Camford |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 (TV Series) · as Teifion |
| 1961 | Candida · as Eugene Marchbanks |
| 1961 | Victim · as Jack Barrett |
| 1960 | Tunes of Glory · as 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon |
| 1960 | |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Stephen Strang |
| 1955 | ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Captain Richard Travers |
| 1955 | ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Cy Whelan |