Peter McEnery
23 movies · 13 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 21, 1940 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- Walsall, West Midlands, England, UK
Biography
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.
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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.
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Peter McEnery: movies and TV shows
Acting (36)
- 1994
- 1992
- 1991 Safari
as Dr. Wolff
- 1987
- 1986
- 1985 Florence Nightingale
as Sidney Herbert
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1981 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Oberon
- 1980 The Mark of Satan
as Edwyn
- 1980
- 1979
- 1978 The Cat and the Canary
as Charlie Wilder
- 1976
- 1975 Footprints on the Moon
as Henry
- 1973 Tales That Witness Madness
as Timothy Patrick (segment "Penny Farthing")
- 1970 Atlantic Wall
as Jeff, the downed British airman
- 1970 The Adventures of Gerard
as Col. Etienne Gerard (Hussars of Conflans)
- 1970 Entertaining Mr. Sloane
as Mr. Sloane
- 1968 Better a Widow
as Tom Proby
- 1968 Negatives
as Theo
- 1968 Sleep is Lovely
as Peter
- 1967 I Killed Rasputin
as Prince Felix Yusupov
- 1966 The Fighting Prince of Donegal
as Hugh O'Donnell
- 1966 The Game Is Over
as Maxime Saccard
- 1964 The Moon-Spinners
as Mark Camford
- 1964
- 1963 The Chocolate Tree
as Stephen Strang
- 1961 Candida
as Eugene Marchbanks
- 1961 Victim
as Jack Barrett
- 1960 Lena, O My Lena
as Tom
- 1960 Tunes of Glory
as 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon
- 1960 Beat Girl
as Tony
- 1959
- 1956