Peter Barnes

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Peter was brought up in Ontario, Canada and originally intended co become a zoologist (and has a BSc), but caught the acting bug at school. He returned co the UK in 1967 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Peter’s extensive theatre credits include Captain Lancey in Brian Friel’s acclaimed Translations (Hampstead and the Royal National Theatre, London, also for BBC Radio), Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (Exeter), Pozzo in Waiting for Godot (Italy), Nickehen in Karate Billy Comes Home (Dial Theatre, Norfolk), Julian in A Wake for Miss Montreal (London), Barney in Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Eye Theatre, Suffolk), Bennie in Marsha Norman’s Getting Out (Theatr Clwyd, Wales), Jacques in As You Like It (Lancaster) and Sven in Alan Ayckbourn’s Joking Apart (Coventry).

Numerous television appearances include Border Cafe, Grange Hill, Preston Front, 2.4 Children, Anna Lee, Earthfosts, Lovejoy, Eastenders, All Creatures Great and Small, The Wilderness Years, Speed King, Poirot, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, Unsolved Mysteries, The Bill, Kavanagh QC, The Knock, London’s Burning, Traffik and Drop the Dead Donkey. His only film, so far, is A Demon in my View (Filmproduktion, Munich).