Cast & creator
Peter Birrel
Best known for Top of the Pops, Doctor Who, Doctor Who
Peter Birrel (né Peter Cohen 19 July 1935 – 23 June 2004) was an English actor who played numerous parts on British television for nearly forty years. Birrel appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontier in Space in 1973, as well as in the documentary I Was a "Doctor Who" Monster. He also appeared in the first series of Alexander the Greatest. 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). In 1979 he played a guest-role in George and Mildred as George's brother Charlie Roper in the episode A Military Pickle He married actress Stephanie Cole in 1998. She was widowed by his death from cancer in Bath, aged 68 in 2004.
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film credits
40
television credits
51
1955–1997 · acting roles
6.7
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (51)
Showing 51 of 51 credits
Top of the Pops
Self
1964
Doctor Who
Congressman Brook
1963Doctor Who
Draconian Prince
1963
Crown Court
1972
Minder
John Scott
1979
The Saint
Toni Amato
1962
BBC Play of the Month
Brother
1965
Z-Cars
1962
Playhouse
Dora
1974
Bergerac
Rupert Galliers
1981
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Man
1965
No Hiding Place
1959
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
George
1969
Lovejoy
Gunter Sperber
1986
New Scotland Yard
Sidney Preece
1972
Angels
1975
Dixon of Dock Green
Mick Bowyer
1955
Budgie
Barry
1971
The Main Chance
Michael Coburn
1969The Main Chance
Joe Farrell
1969
Man in a Suitcase
1967
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
M. Helder
1971
The Gentle Touch
1980
The Adventurer
L'assistant-réalisateur
1972
Target
Eric Gill
1977
Steptoe and Son
Agent
1962
Hammer House of Horror
Markham
1980Studio 4
Carleton Myatt
1962
Cribb
Gold
1980
Wilde Alliance
Policeman
1978
Boy Meets Girl
Dr La Salle
1967
C.A.T.S. Eyes
1985
The XYY Man
Groot
1976
Armchair Theatre
Eddie
1956
Holly
Mike Underwood
1972
You Can't Win
Tom Jacobs
1966
Freud
Adler
1984
Don't Drink the Water
Waiter
1974
David
Schama
1997Studio 4
Carleton Myatt
1962
Sharpe's Company
Don Moreno
1994Alexander the Greatest
1971
Arch of Triumph
Wiesenthal
1984
Sharpe: The Legend
Don Moreno
1997
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Draconian Prince
1973
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
Senior Detective
1980
Freelance
Jeff
1970
I Was a Doctor Who Monster!
1996
What a Crazy World
Freddy
1963
Mary's Wife
Dora
1980
Stanley
Louis Behrends
1988