Peter McEnery

Peter McEnery

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.

Acting

1994

1987

Inspector Morse

Donald Phillipson

1983

Pictures

Bill Trench

1981

1980

1979

1978

1976

Clayhanger

Edwin Clayhanger

1975

1973

Tales That Witness Madness

Timothy Patrick (segment "Penny Farthing")

1970

Atlantic Wall

Jeff, the downed British airman

1970

The Adventures of Gerard

Col. Etienne Gerard (Hussars of Conflans)

1970

1968

1968

1966

1966

The Game Is Over

Maxime Saccard

1964

The Moon-Spinners

Mark Camford

1964

1961

Candida

Eugene Marchbanks

1961

Victim

Jack Barrett

1960

Tunes of Glory

2nd Lt. David Mackinnon

1960

Infos

Full Name
Peter McEnery
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
2/21/1940