Peter Egan
Birthday: 1946-09-28
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Biography: Peter Joseph Egan (born 28 September 1946) is a British actor known for his TV roles, including Hogarth in Big Breadwinner Hog, the future King George IV of the United Kingdom in Prince Regent (1979); smooth neighbour Paul Ryman in the sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89); and Hugh "Shrimpie" MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire, in Downton Abbey (2012–15). He is married to retired actress Myra Frances. Egan was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Doris (née Pick) and Michael Thomas Egan, who is of Irish descent.[1][2] He was educated at St. George's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School, Maida Vale. He also attended the London Oratory School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Bean
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the ...
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Death at a Funeral
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons i...
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Man to Man
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt t...
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2001: A Space Travesty
When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United Sta...
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The Wedding Date
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of...
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Chariots of Fire
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver di...
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Dear Brutus
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. ...
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The Peacock Spring
Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. ...
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Gobble
As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey ...
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The Hireling
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant B...
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The King's Beard
A king whose beard is long and beloved. An aspiring barber looking for acknowledgement. A kingdom un...
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Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
The tender and tragic love story of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife and lifelong model Ma...
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The Lifeswappers
Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since thing...
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To Catch a King
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chante...
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Harambe
This powerful feature length documentary explores animal captivity from a modern perspective through...
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National Theatre Live: People
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing throug...
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The I Inside
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the las...
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Callan
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assass...
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The Dark Side of the Sun
Supernatural thriller series dealing with a secret society on the Greek island of Rhodes....
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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed,...
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And Mrs.
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway...
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The Kitchen
Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first pr...
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The Cater Street Hangman
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a se...
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Hennessy
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daug...
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The Price of the Bride
After a KGB agent defects to the US, the CIA has the job of not only taking from him his dowry of in...
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Whatever Love Means
Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE...
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One Brief Summer
The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who ...
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Paradise Postponed
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservat...
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Beloved
When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion...
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Our Father
A young woman struggling with a secret, ponders life's mysteries in the place she knows best... a co...
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Strangled
A woman who can use remote viewing to locate the bodies of missing people starts experiencing a feel...
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Dogspiracy
An animal welfare campaigner investigates the abuse of dogs and meets like-minded people seeking cha...
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American Cafe
"American Cafe" is a look into Cafe Racer motorcycle culture in the United States. Transplanted fro...
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