Peter Birrel

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Peter Birrel

Acting July 19, 1935

West Ham, Essex, England, UK

Peter Birrel (né Peter Cohen 19 July 1935 – 23 June 2004) was an English actor who played numerous parts on British television for nearly forty years. Birrel appeared in the Doct…

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

7.9 1963 TV Show
Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

6.6 1964 TV Show
Minder

Minder

7.1 1979 TV Show
The Saint

The Saint

7.4 1962 TV Show
BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

5.2 1965 TV Show
Crown Court

Crown Court

5.7 1972 TV Show
Z-Cars

Z-Cars

7.3 1962 TV Show
Bergerac

Bergerac

7.0 1981 TV Show
Playhouse

Playhouse

7.0 1974 TV Show
Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

4.3 1965 TV Show
No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place

4.8 1959 TV Show
ITV Saturday Night Theatre

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

7.0 1969 TV Show

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Peter Birrel (né Peter Cohen 19 July 1935 – 23 June 2004) was an English actor who played numerous parts on British television for nearly forty years. Birrel appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontier in Space in 1973, as well as in the documentary I Was a "Doctor Who" Monster. He also appeared in the first series of Alexander the Greatest. His film credits included Freelance (1971), Arch of Triumph (1984), and the television miniseries Freud (1984), War and Remembrance (1988) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989). In 1979 he played a guest-role in George and Mildred as George's brother Charlie Roper in the episode A Military Pickle He married actress Stephanie Cole in 1998. She was widowed by his death from cancer in Bath, aged 68 in 2004.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1997
    Sharpe: The Legend

    Movie Don Moreno

  2. 1997
    David

    Movie Schama

  3. 1996
    I Was a Doctor Who Monster!

    Movie

  4. 1994
    Sharpe's Company

    Movie Don Moreno

  5. 1988
    Stanley

    Movie Louis Behrends

  6. 1986
    Lovejoy

    TV show Gunter Sperber

  7. 1985
    C.A.T.S. Eyes

    TV show

  8. 1984
    Arch of Triumph

    Movie Wiesenthal

  9. 1984
    Freud

    TV show Adler

  10. 1981
    Bergerac

    TV show Rupert Galliers

  11. 1980
    Hammer House of Horror

    TV show Markham

  12. 1980
    The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

    Movie Senior Detective

  13. 1980
    Mary's Wife

    Movie Dora

  14. 1980
    Cribb

    TV show Gold

  15. 1980
    The Gentle Touch

    TV show

  16. 1979
    Minder

    TV show John Scott

More credits
  1. 1978
    Wilde Alliance

    TV show Policeman

  2. 1977
    Target

    TV show Eric Gill

  3. 1976
    The XYY Man

    TV show Groot

  4. 1975
    Angels

    TV show

  5. 1974
    Don't Drink the Water

    TV show Waiter

  6. 1974
    Playhouse

    TV show Dora

  7. 1973
    Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

    Movie Draconian Prince

  8. 1972
    Crown Court

    TV show

  9. 1972
    The Adventurer

    TV show L'assistant-réalisateur

  10. 1972
    Holly

    TV show Mike Underwood

  11. 1972
    New Scotland Yard

    TV show Sidney Preece

  12. 1971
    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    TV show M. Helder

  13. 1971
    Alexander the Greatest

    TV show

  14. 1971
    Budgie

    TV show Barry

  15. 1970
    Freelance

    Movie Jeff

  16. 1969
    The Main Chance

    TV show Michael Coburn

  17. 1969
    ITV Saturday Night Theatre

    TV show George

  18. 1967
    Man in a Suitcase

    TV show

  19. 1967
    Boy Meets Girl

    TV show Dr La Salle

  20. 1966
    You Can't Win

    TV show Tom Jacobs

  21. 1965
    BBC Play of the Month

    TV show Brother

  22. 1965
    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    TV show The Man

  23. 1964
    Top of the Pops

    TV show Self

  24. 1963
    Doctor Who

    TV show Congressman Brook