Peter Jesson

Acting
1937-03-03
London, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography17 Titles

#1The Avengers

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Penman

7.8 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

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#2The Wednesday Play

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Flight Lieutenant Turnbull

5.2 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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#3Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Jeremy

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#4Gideon's Way

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Jack

7.0 / 10
Drama

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.

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#5Suspense

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Dr Hickman

6.7 / 10
MysteryDrama

Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.

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#6Out of This World

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Wilson

5.8 / 10
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode is introduced by actor Boris Karloff. Many episodes are adaptations of stories by sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown.

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#7Boy Meets Girl

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Dr Scott-Halliday

8.8 / 10
DramaComedy

Anthology series of love stories.

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#8The Corridor People

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes as First Mr. Grimm

5.0 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama

British security agent Kronk and American private eye Phil Scrotty go up against exotic villainess Syrie Van Epp.

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#9Carry On Cleo

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Seth

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Julius Caesar.

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#10The Iron Maiden

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as 'Wrong' Rolls Royce Owner

6.6 / 10
Comedy

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

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#11Carry On Cabby

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Car Salesman

6.4 / 10
Comedy

Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!

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#12Nurse on Wheels

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Mr. Top

6.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

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#13That Riviera Touch

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Young Man in Car (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Eric and Ernie decide to take a holiday to the South of France and unwittingly become mixed up with a band of jewel thieves.

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#14The Big Job

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Ernest

6.7 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.

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#15Twice Round the Daffodils

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Joyce's Young Man

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.

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#16The Cellar and the Almond Tree

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.

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#17Orkney

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Per

9.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.

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