Peter Copley

Peter Copley 20 May 1915 7 October 2008 was an English television film and stage actor Copley was born in Bushey Hertfordshire son of the printmakers John Copley and Ethel Gabain After changing his mind about joining the Royal Navy he studied at the Old Vic School and started out as a stage actor in 1932 He made his first film appearance in 1934 going on to play a wide variety of characters from the villainous to the meek and mild In 1946 he appeared on stage in Cyrano de Bergerac at the New Theatre in London In 1951 he appeared at the Duchess Theatre in Londons West End in the comedy play The Happy Family by Michael Clayton Hutton TV credits include Thorndyke Danger Man The Saint The Avengers The Forsyte Saga The Troubleshooters The Champions Department S Doomwatch ZCars Fall of Eagles Survivors Bless Me Father episode A Legend Comes to Stay Father Brown episode The Curse of the Golden Cross Doctor Who in the serial Pyramids of Mars Sutherlands Law Tales of the Unexpected Miss Marple episode Nemesis Lovejoy The Bill Cadfael The Diamond Brothers South by South East and One Foot in the Grave Copley continued to act well into his nineties A resident of Bristol Copley was awarded an Honorary Degree of Master of Arts by the University of the West of England in 2001