Peter McEnery
Known For
Acting
Born
1940-02-21 in Walsall, West Midlands, England, UK
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter McEnery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Inspector Morse
as Donald Phillipson
Theatre 625
as Teifion
Hammer House of Horror
as Edwyn
International Detective
as Alan Vernon
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
as Frazer Minshull
Negatives
as Theo
Witchcraft
as Jamie Matheson
The Moon-Spinners
as Mark Camford
Clayhanger
as Edwin Clayhanger
Atlantic Wall
as Jeff, the downed British airman
Victim
as Jack Barrett
The Mistress
as Luke Carpenter
Tunes of Glory
as 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon
The Cat and the Canary
as Charlie Wilder
Tales That Witness Madness
as Timothy Patrick (segment "Penny Farthing")
Florence Nightingale
as Sidney Herbert
The Aphrodite Inheritance
as David Collier
Pictures
as Bill Trench
I Killed Rasputin
as Prince Felix Yusupov
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
as Hugh O'Donnell