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Peter Cartwright

Peter Cartwright

Acting
1935-08-30
Krugersdorp, South Africa

Known For & Full Filmography33 Titles

#1Doctor Who

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Arnold Underwood

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

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#2Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Elphias Doge

7.7 / 10
AdventureFantasy

When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

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#3The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Sir Peter Pelham

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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#4Crown Court

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

5.7 / 10
Drama

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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#5Van der Valk

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as KLM Captain

6.2 / 10
Drama

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

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#6Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Mr Keith

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

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#7Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Keith

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

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#8Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Wedding Guest

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

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#9The Chief

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Attorney General

7.0 / 10
Drama

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

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#10Murder in Mind

Drama Series - 2001, 16 episodes • as Judge

8.3 / 10
DramaCrime

A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

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#11Hammer House of Horror

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Surgeon

7.1 / 10
MysteryDrama

Each self-contained episode features a different kind of horror, varying from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also includes non-supernatural themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.

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#122Point4 Children

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Auctioneer

7.3 / 10
Comedy

They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The classic 90s sitcom.

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#13Shoestring

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Jan Poestma

7.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

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#14Gandhi

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as European Passenger

7.6 / 10
DramaHistory

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

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#15Yes, Prime Minister

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

8.3 / 10
ComedyWar & Politics

James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been managed by his trusted Permanent Private Secretary, the formidably political Sir Humphrey Appleby who must move to the “Top Job” in Downing Street to support him, together with his much put upon PPS Bernard Wolley. What could possibly go wrong?

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#16Danger UXB

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Major Luckhurst

8.0 / 10
Drama

Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.

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#17Wimbledon

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Elderly Man in Lift

6.2 / 10
ComedyRomance

Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away.  Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he’s granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament…make that his final tournament ever.

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#18Shackleton

Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as Judge

7.2 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

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#19Cry Freedom

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Police Sergeant

7.0 / 10
Drama

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

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#20The Famous Five

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Police Inspector

7.5 / 10
FamilyAction & AdventureMystery

The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979. It was produced by Southern Television in 26 half-hour episodes.

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#21Longitude

Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes • as Army Doctor

7.0 / 10
Drama

The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.

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#22Call Me Mister

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Australian ex-cop Jack Bartholomew goes to Britain when he discovers he's heir to a family title; when he doesn't get on with his new family, he starts working as a private detective.

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#23The Fourth Protocol

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Jan Marais

6.3 / 10
ActionThriller

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

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#24Mandela

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Court Judge

4.8 / 10
TV MovieDrama

Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.

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#25First Among Equals

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Christopher Morland

7.0 / 10
Drama

A ten-part serial based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel of the same name, which follows the careers and personal lives of a quartet of fictional Parliament members from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister.

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#26Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes • as Jim

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#27Longitude

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • as Army Doctor

7.4 / 10
TV MovieDramaHistory

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

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#28A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Major Treadwell

6.0 / 10
CrimeComedyAction

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.

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#29Let's Get Laid

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Film Director

3.6 / 10
Comedy

A demobbed soldier, Gordon Laid, returning from World War II meets Maxine Lupercal, a member of a traveling troupe of actors returning to England on the same ship. As Gordon closely resembles a member of the troupe of actors, mistaken identity causes him to become embroiled in various murders and an international espionage plot involving a cigarette lighter that strangely affects electricity. The action reaches its comical climax on stage with Gordon and his double as the spies and the police converge on the theatre is a desperate attempt to retrieve the missing cigarette lighter.

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#30Fatal Spring

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Adjutant

8.8 / 10

'Can you imagine, just try to imagine the numbers of good men who are going to be slaughtered this summer ...' Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets - who were also three courageous soldiers - gradually develops towards their historical and crucial meeting.

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#31Operation Julie

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as D.S. Frank Leighton

3.5 / 10
CrimeDramaTV Movie

A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true story of a long running Police investigation which resulted in the arrests of 120 people and jail sentences of 170 years for the manufacture and distribution of ÂŁ100M of LSD.

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#32Come the Revolution

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Middle Aged Man

10.0 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.

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#33Knockback: 2

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Verne Governor

9.0 / 10
DramaThrillerTV Movie

Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.

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