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Edward Petherbridge is an English actor, writer and artist. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels, and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, he was a memorable Newman Noggs in the company's adaptation of Dickens's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
Born
Monday, 03 August 1936
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| McKellen: Playing the Part | 2018 | |
| How to Talk to Girls at Parties | PT First | 2017 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Gentleman Fish (voice) / Gentleman Fish | 2016 |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | King George III | 2015 |
| The Borgias | Friar Raphael | 2011 |
| Pope Joan | Aesculapius | 2009 |
| Land Girls | Everard Proctor | 2009 |
| Top of the Cops | Self / Lord Peter Wimsey | 2009 |
| Clash of the Santas | Village Elder | 2008 |
| The Brief | Gillespie / Sir Marshall Gillespie | 2004 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| McKellen: Playing the Part | 2018 | |
| How to Talk to Girls at Parties | PT First | 2017 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Gentleman Fish (voice) / Gentleman Fish | 2016 |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | King George III | 2015 |
| The Borgias | Friar Raphael | 2011 |
| Pope Joan | Aesculapius | 2009 |
| Land Girls | Everard Proctor | 2009 |
| Top of the Cops | Self / Lord Peter Wimsey | 2009 |
| Clash of the Santas | Village Elder | 2008 |
| The Brief | Gillespie / Sir Marshall Gillespie | 2004 |
| The Statement | Dom Vladimir | 2003 |
| Sword of Honour | Perigrin Crouchback | 2001 |
| Doctors | Bagley Grimsdale | 2000 |
| A Christmas Carol | Foster | 1999 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell | Bilideau | 1999 |
| Midsomer Murders | Lord Holm | 1997 |
| Silent Witness | Professor Lewis Freeman | 1996 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Dr. Pritchard | 1996 |
| An Awfully Big Adventure | St. Ives / St.Ives | 1995 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Major Bilideau | 1992 |
| Maigret | Léon Florentin | 1992 |
| Performance | Liberal MP | 1991 |
| Once in a Life Time | Lawrence Vail | 1988 |
| Noble House | Jason Plumm | 1988 |
| A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery | Lord Peter Wimsey | 1987 |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Gower | 1984 |
| The Brief | Geoffrey Lanning Q.C. | 1984 |
| All the World's a Stage | Extracts from The Versailles Impromptu; The Critique of the School for Wives; Tartuffe | 1984 |
| King Lear | France | 1983 |
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Newman Noggs / Hawke's Rival | 1982 |
| American Playhouse | Charles Marsden | 1982 |
| Schiele in Prison | (voice) | 1980 |
| Europe After the Rain | Poetry Reciter | 1978 |
| Here I Stand... | Alcibiades | 1977 |
| The New Avengers | Mullins | 1976 |
| Knots | 1975 | |
| Wessex Tales | Squire Fellmer | 1973 |
| Dead of Night | Edmund | 1972 |
| Crown Court | Christopher Rochland | 1972 |
| The Guardians | Christopher Hobson | 1971 |
| Man at the Top | Leonard Finch | 1970 |
| Headmaster | Parsons | 1970 |
| ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Rev. Robert Hanley | 1969 |
| ITV Playhouse | Dane / Henry Harrington | 1967 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Conrade | 1967 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Lorenzo | 1965 |
| Call My Bluff | Self | 1965 |
| Armchair Theatre | Roy | 1956 |
| Dixon of Dock Green | Tony Glaister | 1955 |
