Peter Egan
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.
(Wikipedia)
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.473 |
| Birthday | 1946-09-28 |
| Place of Birth | Hampstead, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Peter Joseph Egan, |
1997
Bean
6.463/2338
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...
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Bean
2005
Man to Man
6.2/35
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
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Man to Man
2007
Death at a Funeral
6.896/1669
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an...
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Death at a Funeral
2005
The Wedding Date
6.821/1133
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While...
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The Wedding Date
2000
2001: A Space Travesty
4.305/264
When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret internationa...
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2001: A Space Travesty
1981
Chariots of Fire
6.806/877
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
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Chariots of Fire
1994
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
5.991/55
A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in th...
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
1973
The Hireling
5.7/21
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite an...
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The Hireling
1976
The Lifeswappers
0/0
Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitc...
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The Lifeswappers
1984
To Catch a King
4/1
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap...
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To Catch a King
2013
National Theatre Live: People
8/3
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a ba...
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National Theatre Live: People
2004
The I Inside
5.976/252
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the las...
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The I Inside
1974
Callan
6.9/13
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assassination of a german businessman, but Callan refuse...
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Callan
1983
The Dark Side of the Sun
0/0
Supernatural thriller series dealing with a secret society on the Greek island of Rhodes.
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The Dark Side of the Sun
1998
The Cater Street Hangman
3/2
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
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The Cater Street Hangman
1975
Hennessy
4.5/10
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Thou...
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Hennessy
1990
The Price of the Bride
0/0
After a KGB agent defects to the US, the CIA has the job of not only taking from him his dowry of information (ie. the price of the bride), but also m...
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The Price of the Bride
2005
Whatever Love Means
3.5/2
Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year rom...
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Whatever Love Means
1970
One Brief Summer
5/1
The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who comes into their lives.
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One Brief Summer
1986
Paradise Postponed
7/1
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel...
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Paradise Postponed
1996
The Peacock Spring
7/2
Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. Two English schoolgirls arrive in New Delhi, 1959....
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The Peacock Spring
1997
Gobble
0/0
As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".
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Gobble
2016
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
0/0
On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever....
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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2024
And Mrs
0/0
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiance drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway - vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of t...
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And Mrs
2024
And Mrs
0/0
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiance drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway - vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of t...
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And Mrs
1981
Dear Brutus
0/0
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative re...
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Dear Brutus
2002
The King's Beard
6/5
A king whose beard is long and beloved. An aspiring barber looking for acknowledgement. A kingdom unaware of the dark secret behind their ruler's lush...
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The King's Beard
1998
Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
0/0
The tender and tragic love story of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife and lifelong model Marthe. The artist recorded their relationship on ca...
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Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
2023
Harambe
0/0
This powerful feature length documentary explores animal captivity from a modern perspective through the lens of Harambe’s tragic life and death. Hara...
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Harambe
1970
The Rivals
6/1
The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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The Rivals
1977
The Kitchen
0/0
Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his m...
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