Peter Williams (actor, born 1915)

Peter Williams
Born	28 April 1915 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Died	September 2003 East Sussex, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1948-1980 (film & TV)

Peter Williams (1915–2003) was an American-born British film and television actor. He is best known for his role as private detective Don Carter in the long-running British crime series Shadow Squad in the late 1950s.

Selected filmography

Film

• Brass Monkey (1948)
• Bless 'Em All (1948)
• The Straw Man (1953)
• Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• Richard III (1955)
• Private's Progress (1956)
• The Man Who Never Was (1956)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Dunkirk (1958)
• On the Beach (1959)
• Two Letter Alibi (1962)

Television

• Shadow Squad (1957)
• Ivanhoe (1958)
• Pathfinders in Space (1960)
• Barnaby Rudge (1960)
• City Beneath the Sea (1962)
• The Human Jungle (1963)
• Gideon's Way (1965)
• Redcap (1966)
• Man in a Suitcase (1968)
• The Champions (1968)
• The Main Chance (1970)
• Pretenders (1972)
• I, Claudius (1976)

Bibliography

• Paul Cornell, Martin Day & Keith Topping. The Guinness Book of Classic British TV. Guinness, 1996.
• Bernard Sendall. Independent Television in Britain: Origin and foundation, 1946-62. Macmillan, 1982.

External links

• Peter Williams at IMDb