Peter McEnery

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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.

Most Popular Peter McEnery Trailers

Total trailers found: 23

The Mark of Satan Trailer (1980)

06 December 1980

Edwyn sees the number nine everywhere and is convinced that forces of evil are at work.

Lena, O My Lena Trailer (1960)

25 September 1960

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.

The Moon-Spinners Trailer (1964)

08 July 1964

Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome.

Safari Trailer (1991)

10 October 1991

Marco, a young Roman reporter, travels to Zaire to carry out a report commissioned by an important naturalistic magazine, but when he arrives in Africa he comes across an illicit drug trafficking.

Candida Trailer (1961)

29 December 1961

Candida is the sensible wife of a clergyman. Her husband tends to take her for granted, but she has a young admirer who doesn't.

The Cat and the Canary Trailer (1978)

01 November 1978

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune.

Victim Trailer (1961)

01 August 1961

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.

Tales That Witness Madness Trailer (1973)

31 October 1973

Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each patient went mad, be they a ritualistic 'luau', a time-travelling bicycle, a toy tiger, and a tree stump.

Sleep is Lovely Trailer (1968)

01 September 1968

Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all his time on a barge owned by his friend John and John's younger brother Colin.

The Fighting Prince of Donegal Trailer (1966)

01 October 1966

Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England.

The Chocolate Tree Trailer (1963)

27 October 1963

As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.

The Game Is Over Trailer (1966)

22 June 1966

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.

Beat Girl Trailer (1960)

21 August 1960

When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.

Florence Nightingale Trailer (1985)

07 April 1985

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today.

Negatives Trailer (1968)

05 September 1968

A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.

The Adventures of Gerard Trailer (1970)

03 July 1970

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars.

Atlantic Wall Trailer (1970)

14 October 1970

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers.

Entertaining Mr. Sloane Trailer (1970)

08 April 1970

An aging nymphomaniac and her closeted gay brother are enamored with their father's killer and blackmail him into satisfying their outlandish desires.

I Killed Rasputin Trailer (1967)

03 May 1967

Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne.

Footprints on the Moon Trailer (1975)

01 February 1975

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss.

Better a Widow Trailer (1968)

08 October 1968

Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate.

Tunes of Glory Trailer (1960)

17 September 1960

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (1981)

13 December 1981

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl.