Peter McEnery
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Peter McEnery (b. 21 February 1940, Walsall, England, UK) is an English stage and film actor. His daughter Kate (by his previous 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.
Peter McEnery played Edwin Clayhanger in the dramatised novel by Arnold Bennett. He played the part to perfection with outstanding 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
- 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
- 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