Edward Petherbridge
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Edward Petherbridge.
Born: August 3, 1936
Place of Birth: West Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For
The Exorcism
Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill. Then things really get strange!
Land Girls
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Dead of Night
Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner. BBC Four rebroadcast "The Exorcism" on 22 December 2007.
Midsomer Murders
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Silent Witness
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
A Ghost Story for Christmas
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue.
Maigret
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
Journey's End
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck. He loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
Filmography
as PT First
as Gentleman Fish (voice)
as Aesculapius
as Everard Proctor
as Village Elder
as Gillespie
as Dom Vladimir
as Foster
as Lord Holm
as St.Ives
as Major Bilideau
as Liberal MP
as Self
as Sam Jessop
as Charles Marsden
as Jason Plumm
as Lt. Osborne
as Peter Wimsey
as Gower
as France
as Norman Britt
as Lord Vaughan
as Henry Harrington
as Poetry Reciter
as Walter Huppenkothen
as Walter Huppenkothen
as Mullins
as Sir Richard/Sir Matthew
as Squire Fellmer
as Edmund
as Edmund
as Sir Richard / Sir Matthew
as Johnny Hicks
as Conrade
as Ed
as Lorenzo
as Self - Nominee