Peter McEnery

Known for

Popular titles

Biography

A closer look

Read full 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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter McEnery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

1994
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
TV show Frazer Minshull
1992
Witchcraft
TV show Jamie Matheson
1991
Safari
Movie Dr. Wolff
1987
Inspector Morse
TV show Donald Phillipson
1986
The Collectors
TV show Harry Caines
1985
Florence Nightingale
Movie Sidney Herbert
1985
The Mistress
TV show Luke Carpenter
1984
Weekend Playhouse
TV show Dominic Hanson
1983
Pictures
TV show Bill Trench
1981
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie Oberon
1980
The Mark of Satan
Movie Edwyn
1980
Hammer House of Horror
TV show Edwyn
1979
The Aphrodite Inheritance
TV show David Collier
1978
The Cat and the Canary
Movie Charlie Wilder
1976
Clayhanger
TV show Edwin Clayhanger
1975
Footprints on the Moon
Movie Henry

More credits

1973
Tales That Witness Madness
Movie Timothy Patrick (segment "Penny Farthing")
1970
Atlantic Wall
Movie Jeff, the downed British airman
1970
The Adventures of Gerard
Movie Col. Etienne Gerard (Hussars of Conflans)
1970
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Movie Mr. Sloane
1968
Better a Widow
Movie Tom Proby
1968
Negatives
Movie Theo
1968
Sleep is Lovely
Movie Peter
1967
I Killed Rasputin
Movie Prince Felix Yusupov
1966
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Movie Hugh O'Donnell
1966
The Game Is Over
Movie Maxime Saccard
1964
The Moon-Spinners
Movie Mark Camford
1964
Theatre 625
TV show Teifion
1963
The Chocolate Tree
Movie Stephen Strang
1961
Candida
Movie Eugene Marchbanks
1961
Victim
Movie Jack Barrett
1960
Lena, O My Lena
Movie Tom
1960
Tunes of Glory
Movie 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon
1960
Beat Girl
Movie Tony
1959
International Detective
TV show Alan Vernon
1956
Armchair Theatre
TV show Tom