Peter McEnery
Born: 1940-02-21 in Walsall, West Midlands, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1994
- (All Quiet on the) Preston Front as Frazer Minshull
1992
- Witchcraft as Jamie Matheson
1991
- Safari as Dr. Wolff
1987
- Inspector Morse as Donald Phillipson
1985
- Florence Nightingale as Sidney Herbert
- The Mistress as Luke Carpenter
1983
- Pictures as Bill Trench
1981
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon
1980
- Hammer House of Horror as Edwyn
- The Mark of Satan as Edwyn
1979
- The Aphrodite Inheritance as David Collier
1978
- The Cat and the Canary as Charlie Wilder
1976
- Clayhanger 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
- The Adventures of Gerard as Col. Etienne Gerard (Hussars of Conflans)
- Entertaining Mr. Sloane as Mr. Sloane
1968
- Better a Widow as Tom Proby
- Sleep is Lovely as Peter
- Negatives as Theo
1967
- I Killed Rasputin as Prince Felix Yusupov
1966
- The Game Is Over as Maxime Saccard
- The Fighting Prince of Donegal as Hugh O'Donnell
1964
- Theatre 625 as Teifion
- The Moon-Spinners as Mark Camford
1963
- The Chocolate Tree as Stephen Strang
1960
- Beat Girl as Tony
- Tunes of Glory as 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon
- Lena, O My Lena as Tom
1959
- International Detective as Alan Vernon