Peter Brace

Acting
1924-08-30
Southwark, London, England, UK

Biography

Peter Brace was a British film actor and stunt performer who worked alongside actors like Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Richard Burton and Michael Caine in a career that lasted nearly half a century and took in more than 100 credits on the big and small screen. Brace was born at Southwark in south-east London. He made his film debut at the age of 23 in Ken Annakin's Holiday Camp (1947). His name was unfamiliar to the general public, but his face and size (6 ft 4 in tall) made him instantly recognizable. He was a stunt performer and minor actor in the following James Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Casino Royale (1967) and You Only Live Twice (1967). He also acted and did stunt work in films such as Ivanhoe (1952), A Night to Remember (1958), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Star Wars (1977), Flash Gordon (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Highlander (1986), Willow (1988), Batman (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Chaplin (1992) and Braveheart (1995). Brace was the stunt double for Clancy Brown (the villain Kurgan) in Highlander and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) in Star Wars.

Known For & Full Filmography29 Titles

#1The Avengers

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Percy Danvers (uncredited)

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 Saint

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Second Russian Guard

7.4 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

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#3The Prisoner

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Guardian

7.7 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

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#4The Prisoner

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Mechanic

7.7 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

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#5Dempsey and Makepeace

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Hitman

6.8 / 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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#6Dempsey and Makepeace

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Gunman

6.8 / 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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#7Return of the Saint

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Crewman

7.0 / 10
Action & Adventure

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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#8Curse of the Pink Panther

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Bruno's Crony #1

4.6 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.

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#9The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as 2nd Kidnapper

6.9 / 10
ComedyCrime

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

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#10A Night to Remember

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Stoker (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
DramaActionHistory

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

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#11Tommy

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Man with Knife (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
DramaMusic

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

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#12Some Girls Do

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Petersen Bodyguard (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
ActionAdventureComedy

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.

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#13The MacKintosh Man

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Inmate (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Thriller

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

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#14Deadlier Than the Male

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Car Park Assassin

5.9 / 10
ActionComedyThriller

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.

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#15Danger Within

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as POW (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
War

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

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#16We Joined the Navy

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Leather Jacket Rebel (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.

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#17Crooks Anonymous

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Man in Labour Exchange (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyCrime

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

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#18The Dark Avenger

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as French Knight (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
ActionAdventureDrama

Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his paramour, which ultimately end in him leading his men into one final climactic battle against the French. (Also known as "The Warriors" and "The Black Prince").

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#19The Informers

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Ruskin's Henchman (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Crime

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

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#20Ill Met by Moonlight

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
WarAdventureAction

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

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#21Don't Lose Your Head

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Soldier (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.

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#22Hands of a Murderer

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Hangman

6.7 / 10
AdventureActionThriller

Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' brother, Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.

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#23Circus of Fear

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Man in Speedboat

5.5 / 10
HorrorMysteryThriller

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

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#24A Ghost in Monte Carlo

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Potok

5.3 / 10
RomanceHistoryTV Movie

A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.

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#25Fury at Smugglers' Bay

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Smuggler (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Adventure

It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. But when a gang of cut-throats, led by the infamous Black John (Bernard Lee) begins to lure ships onto the rocks of Smugglers Bay, and murdering their crews for the sake of loot, the fishermen begin to fear for their livelihoods. In desperation, they appeal to the local magistrate Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing).

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#26The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Captain of the Guards

6.8 / 10
Comedy

The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.

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#27Desert Mice

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Sergeant on Troopship (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
ComedyWar

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to camp.

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#28Dick Barton: Special Agent

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Henchman

4.3 / 10
ActionCrimeComedy

Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.

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#29Owain Glyndŵr - Prince of Wales

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as The Black Knight

7.0 / 10
HistoryDrama

A biopic of the last Prince of Wales.

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