Peter McEnery

Peter McEnery
Born	21 February 1940 (1940-02-21) Walsall, England
Occupation	Actor

Peter McEnery (b. 21 February 1940, Walsall, England, UK) is an English stage and film actor. His daughter Kate, by his first marriage to British actress Julie Peasgood, is an actress.

He reportedly gave Hayley Mills her first kiss while filming The Moon-Spinners. As an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company, he acted 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.

Peter McEnery played Edwin Clayhanger in the television dramatisation of the novels by Arnold Bennett with support from Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews and Clive Swift. His first wife, Julie Peasgood, played Ada in this production, a maid in the Clayhanger household.

His brother is actor John McEnery.

Filmography

• Tunes of Glory, 2nd Lieutenant David MacKinnon, 1960
• Victim, Boy Barrett, 1961
• The Moon-Spinners, Mark Camford, 1964
• The Fighting Prince of Donegal, "Red" Hugh O'Donnell, 1966
• The Game is Over, Roger Vadim, 1966
• I Killed Rasputin, Felix Yusupov, 1967
• Negatives, Theo, 1968
• Entertaining Mr Sloane, Sloane, 1970
• Le mur de l'Atlantique, Jeff, 1970
• Footprints on the Moon (1975)
• The Cat and the Canary, Charlie Wilder, 1979

Television

• Clayhanger
• The Aphrodite Inheritance, mini-series, David Collier, BBC, 1979
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon, BBC, 1981
• The Collectors, BBC, 1986
• The Mistress, BBC, 1987

External links

• Peter McEnery at the Internet Movie Database