Peter Straker
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Peter Straker.
Born: November 7, 1943
Place of Birth: Jamaica
Known For
Connie
Connie is a 1985 British television drama created and written by Ron Hutchinson as a dry commentary on 1980s Thatcherite values. Set in the East Midlands garment industry, the titular character returns to the United Kingdom from Greece after eight years in self-imposed exile. She's determined to claw back control of her chain of high-street clothes shops now controlled by her stepsister, and also get her foot back into the House of Bea, a family-owned garment factory run by her father and stepmother, which is now losing money.
The Crown
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The Freddie Mercury Story: Who Wants to Live Forever?
The last years of Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), rock legend and frontman of Queen, a band that conquered the world of music in the seventies and eighties: what was his lifestyle and the path that led him to a tragic death due to AIDS when he was only 46 years old.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
The Doctor and a newly-regenerated Romana arrive on Skaro to find that the Daleks, locked in a war with the robotic Movellans, have returned to retrieve their buried creator Davros.
Girl Stroke Boy
When a young man brings an unexpected new partner home for dinner, the underlying prejudices of his straitlaced, middle-class parents are brought to the fore.
Up the Chastity Belt
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...
Home Sweet India
Trinidad, 1949. ' Mass suicide!' shout the Indian residents who want free passage home now that India has its independence. But to a young girl like Kayshee, Trinidad is home - and she must fight her ebullient father in his crazy campaign.
Da Silva, Da Silva
Dramatisation of part of Wilson Harris' novel "Da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness".
Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera
Ken Hill's original 1984 musical version of The Phantom of the Opera, performed live for television in Tokyo. The Phantom, born with a monstrously disfigured face but the voice of an angel, haunts the Paris Opera House and falls in love with Christine, a young chorus girl.
Filmography
as Elevator Operator
as The Phantom
as Dev
as Commander Sharrel
as Taj
as Walter Wilma
as Arab
as Jo Delaney
as Commander Sharrel
as Da Silva da Silva