Peter Jeffrey

For the Australian air ace, see Peter Jeffrey (RAAF officer).

Peter Jeffrey
Born	18 April 1929(1929-04-18) Bristol, England
Died	25 December 1999(1999-12-25) (aged 70) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1944–99
Spouse	Yvonne Bonnamy (1955-?) (divorced) Jill Jowett (1990-1999) (his death)

Peter Jeffrey (18 April 1929 – 25 December 1999) was a British actor with many roles in television and film.

Jeffrey was born in Bristol, the son of Florence Alice (née Weight) and Arthur Winfred Gilbert Jeffrey. He was educated at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Cambridge but had no formal training as an actor. After many years on stage with the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a very familiar face to British television viewers. Numerous television roles include his 1978 guest appearance in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as Count Grendel in the serial The Androids of Tara and his 1967 appearance as the Colony Pilot in The Macra Terror. It is reputed he had been offered the role of the lead character in the show by Innes Lloyd in 1966, but turned it down; Patrick Troughton was cast instead. In the BBC serial Elizabeth R, he played King Philip II of Spain. He also appeared in Porridge, Quiller, Rising Damp, Nanny, Minder, Yes Minister and many others.

Jeffrey died on 25 December 1999 from prostate cancer.

Filmography

• Becket (1964)
• The Early Bird (1965)
• That Riviera Touch (1966)
• The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)
• The Fixer (1968)
• If.... (1968)
• Ring of Bright Water (1969)
• Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
• Goodbye Gemini (1970)
• Countess Dracula (1971)
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
• The Horsemen (1971)
• Kidnapped (1971)
• What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972)
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
• O Lucky Man! (1973)
• Deadly Strangers (1974)
• The Odessa File (1974)
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
• Midnight Express (1978)
• Britannia Hospital (1982)
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

External links

• Peter Jeffrey at the Internet Movie Database
• Obituary in The Independent