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Peter McEnery
Peter McEnery depicted in a newspaper advertisement for The Moon-Spinners (1964)
Born

Peter Robert McEnery


(1940-02-21) 21 February 1940 (age 84)
OccupationActor
Years active1959-2008
Spouse(s)Julie Peasgood (divorced, 1 child)
Julia St John (2007)[1]

Peter Robert McEnery (born 21 February 1940) is a retired English stage and film actor.

Early life[edit]

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.

Career[edit]

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.[2] In 1966 he took the lead in the Disney adventure film, The Fighting Prince of Donegal.[3] He played Edwin Clayhanger in the television dramatisation of the novels by Arnold Bennett with support from Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews and Clive Swift.[4] 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 TyreatThe 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.[5]

Personal life[edit]

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.[6]

Filmography[edit]

  • Tunes of Glory (1960) – 2nd Lieutenant David MacKinnon
  • Victim (1961) – Jack 'Boy' Barrett
  • The Moon-Spinners (1964) – Mark Camford
  • The Game Is Over (1966) – Maxime Saccard
  • The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) – "Red" Hugh O'Donnell
  • I Killed Rasputin (1967) – Felix Yusupov
  • The Other People (1968) – Peter
  • Negatives (1968) – Theo
  • Better a Widow (1968) – Tom Proby
  • The Adventures of Gerard (1970) – Col. Etienne Gerard (Hussars of Conflans)
  • Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970) – Mr Sloane
  • Atlantic Wall (1970) – Jeff
  • Tales That Witness Madness (1973) – Timothy (segment "Penny Farthing")
  • Footprints on the Moon (1975) – Henry
  • The Cat and the Canary (1978) – Charlie Wilder
  • Lucky Punch (1996) – Flaherty
  • Television[edit]

    References[edit]

  • ^ Leonard Maltin (7 September 1995). The Disney Films. Disney Editions. ISBN 978-0-7868-8137-6.
  • ^ Ellen Baskin (1996). Serials on British Television, 1950-1994. Scolar Press. ISBN 978-1-85928-015-7.
  • ^ Country Life. Country Life, Limited. August 1980.
  • ^ https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/arts-and-culture/a-very-chichester-tale-in-the-minerva-881340
  • External links[edit]


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