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Peter Spraggon

Acting
1941-04-18
Romford, Essex, England, UK

Biography

Peter Spraggon was an actor, known for Jack the Ripper (1973), Killer's Moon (1978) and Dempsey and Makepeace (1985).

Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles

#1Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Prison Officer

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#2Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Publican

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#3Dempsey and Makepeace

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Chauffeur

6.6 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

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#4Budgie

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes • as 2nd Bidder

7.2 / 10

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.

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#5Budgie

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes • as Bidder

7.2 / 10

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.

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#6The New Statesman

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Policeman at No 10

7.5 / 10
Comedy

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

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#7The Gentle Touch

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Station Officer

7.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.

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#8The Gentle Touch

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Sgt Harry Cooper

7.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.

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#9The Chinese Detective

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Charlie Miller

7.2 / 10
Drama

Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged in series like Z Cars and The Sweeney.

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#10Hunters Walk

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Con

8.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

Hunters Walk – devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis – was about crime on a smaller – but no less dramatic – scale, and featured a police force in the fictional Midlands town of Broadstone (the series was actually filmed in Rushden, Northants). Sharing several similarities with the classic 1950s police drama, in particular a small-town settingband storylines encompassing the more human aspects of police work, Hunters Walk offered a contrasting alternative to the 1970s more hard-hitting, action-led urban crime dramas. The small, idiosyncratic team of officers faced a typically broad spectrum of cases, from neighbours’ disputes and hooliganism to suspected murder.

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#11Raffles

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Police Constable

8.4 / 10
ComedyCrime

Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one. In Victorian-era London, gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valuables whilst avoiding detection, especially from the persistent Inspector Mackenzie.

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#12Plays for Britain

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Ray Prince

6.0 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of six contemporary plays from writers at relatively early stages in their careers.

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#13Just William

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Shopkeeper

6.3 / 10
ComedyFamilyDrama

A British television series based on the books by Richmal Crompton. It aired for two seasons, between 1977 and 1978 on ITV and starred child actors Adrian Dannatt as William and Bonnie Langford as Violet, as well as established film star Diana Dors as Mrs Bott.

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#14Executive Stress

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Commisionaire

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Executive Stress is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1986 to 1988. Produced by Thames Television, it first aired on 20 October 1986. After three series, the last episode aired on 27 December 1988. Written by George Layton, Executive Stress stars Penelope Keith as Caroline Fairchild, a middle-aged woman who decides to go back to work. Her husband, Donald, is played by Geoffrey Palmer in the first series. However, Palmer was unable to return for the second series, so Peter Bowles played Donald in the last two series. Keith and Bowles had previously appeared in together in To the Manor Born.

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#15Killer's Moon

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Mr. Jones

5.0 / 10
HorrorCrime

Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.

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#16Goodbye Mr Chips

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Sgt. Major

8.5 / 10
Drama

Goodbye Mr Chips is a 1984 BBC television miniseries based on James Hilton's 1934 novella of the same name. Adapted by Alexander Baron and directed by Gareth Davies, the six-episode serial stars Roy Marsden as the title character. Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Charles Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.

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#17The Crezz

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Mr.George

8.8 / 10

The Crezz is a British television drama produced by Thames Television and shown on the ITV network in 1976. Created by Clive Exton, The Crezz was set in a fictitious West London crescent, Carlisle Crescent. The series was 12 one-hour programmes each focused on a different household.The series was broadcast on ITV at 9pm to start with but midway through it was put back to 10.35pm because the series didn't quite get the viewing figures that were hoped for.

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#18Cuffy

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes • as Sgt. Clopham

6.7 / 10

Cuffy was a British sitcom from 1983. It spawned off from the 1980-1981 ATV comedy-drama Shillingbury Tales, and both series were created by Francis Essex. In Shillingbury Tales, the character of Cuffy appeared in two episodes and was played by Bernard Cribbins, who reprised this role, now given centre stage, for this series, alongside with the rest of the main Shillingbury cast: Jack Douglas as farmer Jake, Linda Hayden as his daughter Mandy, Nigel Lambert as the Reverend Norris, and Diana King as the local spinster Mrs. Simkins. In as much the Shillingbury Tales were made by ITC Entertainment and seen on the ITV network via its parent company ATV, Cuffy was made by ATV's successor company Central Independent Television also for the ITV network.

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#19For Queen & Country

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Landlord

5.3 / 10
DramaThriller

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.

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#20Fast Hands

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Ray Prince

5.0 / 10
TV MovieDrama

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the door.

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#21Rumpole of the Bailey

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Prison Officer

8.0 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.

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#22The Losers

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as M.C.

6.3 / 10

The Losers is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1978. Written by Alan Coren, it stars Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina. The Losers was made for ITV by ATV and was produced and directed by Joe McGrath. In The Losers, Rossiter plays Sydney Foskett, a wrestling promoter who discovers a young new wrestler called "The Butcher", played by Molina, who Foskett ensures loses to get the public's love.

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#23Jack the Ripper

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Inspector William Thicke

7.8 / 10
Documentary

The highly popular detective pair from the series Softly, Softly, Barlow and Watt, try to solve the old mystery of Jack The Ripper in this documentary series.

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#24The Man with the Power

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Publican

7.0 / 10
TV Movie

Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.

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#25The Beggar's Opera

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Harry Paddington

5.5 / 10
Music

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.

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#26The Dick Emery Show

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Self

8.0 / 10
Comedy

A British sketch comedy show broadcast on the BBC from 1963 to 1981, with frequent performers including Pat Coombs, Deryck Guyler, Roy Kinnear, Joan Sims and Josephine Tewson.

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