Peter Firth
Born: 1953-10-27 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Peter Firth is a British film and television actor best known for the films Tess, Equus and The Hunt for Red October, and for playing spymaster Harry Pearce in the BBC TV series Spooks and its movie spin-off Spooks: The Greater Good.
Filmography
2024
- Shardlake as Norflok
2019
- Cheat as Michael Shadley
2016
- Victoria as Duke of Cumberland
- Risen as Pontius Pilate
- Happily Ever After as Walt
2015
- Dickensian as Jacob Marley
- Spooks: The Greater Good as Harry Pearce
2014
- Undeniable as Andrew Rawlins
2013
- Mayday as Malcolm Spicer
2012
- World Without End as Earl Roland
2011
- South Riding as Anthony Snaith
2009
- Yellowstone as Self
2006
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Vespasian
2005
- The Greatest Game Ever Played as Lord Northcliffe
2004
- Hawking as Sir Fred Hoyle
2003
- Me & Mrs. Jones as Benedict
2001
- Pearl Harbor as Mervyn Bennion
2000
- The Magicians as Simon Magus
- That's Life as Victor Leski
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Preston Blair
- Chill Factor as Col. Andrew Brynner
- Total Recall 2070
- The Vice
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil as Stefan
1998
- The Magnificent Seven as Federal Marshal Walter Bryce
- Mighty Joe Young as Garth
1997
- Dead Man's Gun
- Cracker as Mitchell Grady
- The Garden of Redemption as Nazi Commandant
- Holding On
- Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon as Rusticello
- Amistad as Captain Fitzgerald
- The Broker's Man
1996
- Seasick as 1st Officer Roald Jensen
- The Witch's Daughter as Mr. Jones
1995
- Kavanagh Q.C. as Charlie Beck
- An Awfully Big Adventure as Bunny
- Band of Gold as Brian Roberts
- Resort to Murder
1994
- White Angel as Leslie Steckler
1993
- Shadowlands as Dr Craig
- The Perfect Husband as Franz
1992
- Highlander: The Series as Arthur Drake, aka Drakov
- Heartbeat as Dr. James Radcliffe
- The Pleasure Principle as Dick
1991
- Soldier Soldier as Major Ben Collins
- Prisoner of Honor as Maj. Henry
- Murder in Eden as Kenneth Potter
- The Laughter of God as Steve Clemant
1990
- The Hunt for Red October as Capt. 2nd Ivan Putin (Political Officer, Red October)
- The Incident as Geiger
- Children Crossing as Joe
- Burndown as Jake Stern
- The Rescuers Down Under as Red (voice)
1989
- Tree of Hands as Terence
- Trouble in Paradise as Adriaan
1988
- Prisoner of Rio as Clive Ingram
1987
- Northanger Abbey as Henry Tilney
- Born of Fire as Paul Bergson
1986
- A State of Emergency as Ken Parrish
1985
- Screen Two as Henry Tilney
- Lifeforce as Col. Colin Caine
- Letter to Brezhnev as Peter
- The Making Of Lifeforce as Self
1984
- White Elephant as Peter Davidson
- Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as Sir Gaiwan (uncredited voice)
1983
- The Aerodrome as Roy
1982
- Fire and Sword as Dinas
- Another Flip for Dominick as Dominick Hide
1980
- The Flipside of Dominick Hide as Dominick Hide
- The Flipside of Dominick Hide as Dominick Hide
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected
- Tess as Angel Clare
- When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? as Stephen Ryder
1977
- Equus as Alan Strang
- Joseph Andrews as Joseph Andrews
1976
- Aces High as Lt. Stephen Croft
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Dorian Gray
- The Lady of the Camellias as Armand Duval
1975
- King Arthur, the Young Warlord as Corin
1973
- The Ballad of Ben Bagot as Ben Bagot
- Diamonds on Wheels as Robert 'Bobby' Stewart
- Daniele and Maria as Daniele
- Her Majesty's Pleasure as Arsenic
1972
- The Protectors as Stephen Douglas
- Brother Sun, Sister Moon
- The Adventures of Black Beauty as David Abbott
- Arthur of the Britons
1970
- Play for Today as Arsenic
- Here Come the Double Deckers as Scooper
1969
- The Flaxton Boys as Archie Weekes
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Cis Farringdon
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Robert 'Bobby' Stewart