Peter Birrel
Born: 1935-07-19 in West Ham, Essex, England, UK
Died: 2004-06-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Peter Birrel (né Peter Cohen 19 July 1935 – 23 June 2004) was an English actor who played numerous parts on British television for nearly forty years. Birrel appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontier in Space in 1973, as well as in the documentary I Was a "Doctor Who" Monster. He also appeared in the first series of Alexander the Greatest. His film credits included Freelance (1971), Arch of Triumph (1984), and the television miniseries Freud (1984), War and Remembrance (1988) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989). In 1979 he played a guest-role in George and Mildred as George's brother Charlie Roper in the episode A Military Pickle He married actress Stephanie Cole in 1998. She was widowed by his death from cancer in Bath, aged 68 in 2004.
Filmography
1997
- David as Schama
- Sharpe: The Legend as Don Moreno
1988
- Stanley as Louis Behrends
1986
- Lovejoy as Gunter Sperber
1985
1984
- Arch of Triumph as Wiesenthal
1981
- Bergerac as Rupert Galliers
1980
- Hammer House of Horror as Markham
- The Gentle Touch
- The Great Riviera Bank Robbery as Senior Detective
- Mary's Wife as Dora
1979
- Minder as John Scott
1978
- Wilde Alliance as Policeman
- Lillie
1977
- Target as Eric Gill
1975
1974
- Playhouse as Dora
- Don't Drink the Water as Waiter
1973
- Doctor Who: Frontier in Space as Draconian Prince
1972
- Crown Court
- The Adventurer as L'assistant-réalisateur
- Holly as Mike Underwood
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as M. Helder
- Budgie as Barry
- Alexander the Greatest
1970
- Freelance as Jeff
1969
- The Main Chance as Michael Coburn
1967
1966
- You Can't Win as Tom Jacobs
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Brother
1964
- Top of the Pops as Self
1963
- Doctor Who as Congressman Brook
- What a Crazy World as Freddy
1962
- The Saint as Toni Amato
- Z-Cars
- Studio 4 as Carleton Myatt
- Studio Four as Carleton Myatt
1959
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as Mick Bowyer