Peter Birrel | |
Birth Name: | Peter Cohen[1] (some sources cite Peter Birrel Cohen) |
Birth Date: | 19 July 1935 |
Birth Place: | Vienna, Austria[2] |
Death Place: | Bath, Somerset, England |
Occupation: | Actor |
Peter Birrel (Peter Cohen;[1] 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.[3] He also appeared in the first series of Alexander the Greatest.[4] 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).[5] [6] In 1979 he played a guest-role in George and Mildred as George's brother Charlie Roper in the episode A Military Pickle.[7]
He married actress Stephanie Cole in 1998.[4] She was widowed by his death from cancer in Bath, aged 68 in 2004.
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1971 | Freelance | Jeff | ||
1974 | Ransom | Pursuit Pilot | Uncredited | |
1979 | The Great Riviera Bank Robbery | Senior Detective | ||
1984 | Arch of Triumph | Wiesenthal | ||
1998 | Gamal Abd El Naser | (final film role) |