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Peter Birrel

Peter Birrel

English actor

This article is about the actor. For the musician, see Pete Birrell.

Peter Birrel (né Peter Cohen;[1] 19 July 1935 – 23 June 2004) was an English actor who played numerous parts on British television for nearly forty years.[3]

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Birrel appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontier in Space in 1973, as well as in the documentary I Was a "Doctor Who" Monster.[4] He also appeared in the first series of Alexander the Greatest.[5] 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).[3][6] In 1979 he played a guest-role in George and Mildred as George's brother Charlie Roper in the episode A Military Pickle.[7]

Personal life

He married actress Stephanie Cole in 1998.[5] She was widowed by his death from cancer in Bath, aged 68 in 2004.

Filmography

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References

  1. [1]
    "Page 1309 | Issue 43568, 5 February 1965 | London Gazette | The Gazette". thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  2. [2]
    "Charles Sydney Solomon Cohen". geni_family_tree. 1899.
  3. [3]
    "Peter Birrel". BFI. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Frontier in Space ★★★★". Radio Times.
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    "Search Results". www.calmview2.eu.
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    "Peter Birrel". www.aveleyman.com.
  7. [7]
    "A Military Pickle (1979)". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022.
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