Peter McEnery
British actor (born 1940)
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::summary British actor (born 1940) ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Peter McEnery |
| caption | Peter McEnery photographed for a Japanese magazine, promoting Negatives (1968) |
| birthname | Peter Robert McEnery |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Walsall, Staffordshire, England |
| occupation | Actor |
| yearsactive | 1959–2008 |
| spouse | Julie Peasgood (divorced, 1 child) |
| Julia St John (2007) | |
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| name = Peter McEnery | image = | imagesize = | caption = Peter McEnery photographed for a Japanese magazine, promoting Negatives (1968) | birthname = Peter Robert McEnery | birth_date = | birth_place = Walsall, Staffordshire, England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 1959–2008 | spouse = Julie Peasgood (divorced, 1 child) Julia St John (2007)
Peter Robert McEnery (born 21 February 1940) is a retired English stage and film actor.
Early life
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
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 had the lead role in the expensive 1970 adventure film The Adventures of Gerard, which flopped.
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 is that of the surgeon Treves in the National Theatre's 1980 production of The Elephant Man.
Personal life
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.
Filmography
Film
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The Case of Private Hamp | Lieutenant Johnson, the Junior Member | Television film |
| 1960 | Beat Girl | Tony | |
| Tunes of Glory | David MacKinnon, 2nd Lieutenant | ||
| 1961 | Victim | Jack "Boy" Barrett | |
| Candida | Eugene Marchbanks | Television film | |
| 1963 | Still Life | Barney | Television film |
| 1964 | The Moon-Spinners | Mark Camford | |
| 1966 | The Game Is Over | Maxime Saccard | |
| The Fighting Prince of Donegal | "Red" Hugh O'Donnell | ||
| 1967 | I Killed Rasputin | Felix Yusupov | |
| 1968 | Sleep Is Lovely | Peter | |
| Negatives | Theo | ||
| Better a Widow | Tom Proby | ||
| 1970 | The Adventures of Gerard | Col. Etienne Gerard (Hussars of Conflans) | |
| Entertaining Mr Sloane | Mr Sloane | ||
| Atlantic Wall | Jeff | ||
| 1973 | Tales That Witness Madness | Timothy | Segment "Penny Farthing" |
| Life and Soul | Nicholas | Television film | |
| 1974 | The Master of Adventure | Captain Von Schoenvorts | Documentary short (uncredited) |
| 1975 | Footprints on the Moon | Henry | |
| 1978 | The Cat and the Canary | Charlie Wilder | |
| 1981 | The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs | Albie Sachs | Television film |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Oberon | ||
| 1985 | Florence Nightingale | Sidney Herbert | Television film |
| 1991 | Safari | Dr. Peter Wolff | Television film |
| 1996 | Lucky Punch | Flaherty | |
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Television
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959–1960 | ITV Television Playhouse | Cy Whelan / George Poddy / Cyril | Episodes: "Promenade" (1959), "The Essay Prize" (1960), "Poor Sidney" (1960) |
| International Detective | Alan Vernon | Episode: "The Rainis Case" (1960) | |
| 1960–1963 | Armchair Theatre | Tom / Stephen Strang | Episodes: "Lena, O My Lena" (1960), "The Chocolate Tree" (1963) |
| 1960–1964 | ITV Play of the Week | Simon / Captain Richard Travers | Episodes: "The Patchwork Quilt" (1960), "Tarnish on a Golden Boy" (1964) |
| 1965 | Theatre 625 | Teifion | Episode: "Progress to the Park" (1965) |
| 1966 | The Magical World of Disney | Hugh O'Donnell / Mark Camford | Documentary |
| 1967 | Cinéma | Herself | TV series documentary: episode dated 16 February 1967 |
| 1970 | Omnibus | Modigliani | TV series documentary: "A Requiem for Modigliani" (1970) |
| 1973 | So It Goes | Claude Duchesne | TV series: "Free Fall" (1973) |
| 1976 | Clayhanger | Edwin Clayhanger | TV series: 22 episodes |
| 1979 | The Aphrodite Inheritance | David Collier | TV series: 8 episodes |
| 1980 | Hammer House of Horror | Edwyn | Episode: "The Mark of Satan" (1980) |
| 1982 | Arena | Mr Sloane | Episode: "A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton" (1982) |
| 1983 | Live from Pebble Mill | Dan | Episode: "Japanese Style" (1983) |
| Pictures | Bill Trench | TV series: 7 episodes | |
| 1984 | Weekend Playhouse | Dominic Hanson | Episode: "Change Partners" (1984) |
| 1985 | The South Bank Show | 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon | Episode: "Sir Alec Guinness" (1985) |
| 1986 | The Collectors | Harry Caines | TV series: 10 episodes |
| 1987 | The Mistress | Luke Mansel | TV series: 6 episodes |
| 1988 | Inspector Morse | Donald Phillipson | Episode: "Last Seen Wearing" (1988) |
| 1989 | Awayday | Herself | TV series: Episode #1.4 (1989) |
| 1992 | Boon | Robert MacGuffin | Episode: "MacGuffin's Transputer" (1992) |
| Witchcraft | Jamie Matheson | TV series: 2 episodes | |
| 1994 | All Quiet on the Preston Front | Fraser | Episodes: "Ally's Husband" (1994), "Kirsty's Biscuit" (1994) |
| 2000 | Reach for the Moon | William Martin | TV series: 6 episodes |
| 2008 | Scalp | Coolet | Episodes: "Chute libre" (2008), "St-Martin" (2008), "Peracor" (2008), "Mr Smith?" (2008) |
| 2020 | Can I Play with Madness? | Timothy | Video documentary short: David Wood & Leon Lissek re-visit Tales That Witness Madness |
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Stage
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Director
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| Year | Title | Theatre |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | The Merchant of Venice | Gateway Theatre, Chester |
| 1971 | Richard III | Nottingham Playhouse |
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References
References
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- [http://www.seedship.com/hayley/gallery/imgnews1/6408ph1h.html "The Day Hayley got in a Hearse", ''Photoplay'', August 1964.]
- Leonard Maltin. (7 September 1995). "The Disney Films". Disney Editions.
- Vagg, Stephen. (26 September 2025). "Claudia Cardinale’s Ten Top Hollywood Films".
- Ellen Baskin. (1996). "Serials on British Television, 1950-1994". Scolar Press.
- (August 1980). "Country Life". Country Life, Limited.
- (2 November 2015). "A very Chichester tale in the Minerva".
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