Bob Peck
Biography
Bob Peck was an English actor who built a stage career with the Royal Shakespeare Company before winning a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for the 1985 television serial Edge of Darkness. Born in Leeds, he performed with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager and later studied at Leeds College of Art. With the RSC he played Iago opposite Donald Sinden, appeared in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as John Browdie and Sir Mulberry Hawk, and took the title role in Macbeth. He was nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards. On screen he appeared in Slipstream (1989), Lord of the Flies (1990), An Ungentlemanly Act (1992) and Jurassic Park (1993), and later in Surviving Picasso (1996), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), FairyTale: A True Story (1997) and The Miracle Maker (2000), voicing Joseph of Arimathea. He died in 1999.
53years old at death
- Born Leeds
- Died London
- Star sign: VirgoFirst day of the sign, on the Leo cusp
- Robert Peck (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 21 years1979 to 2000
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Beyond film
Peck voiced every male character in the 1990 BBC children's series Forget Me Not Farm, which mixed live action with stop motion animation.
Beyond film
With the Royal Shakespeare Company, Peck took on two parts in its staging of Nicholas Nickleby: John Browdie, a Yorkshireman, and Sir Mulberry Hawk. He played both again on Broadway and in the 1982 television filming.
Beyond film
Peck played Macduff in Trevor Nunn's 1976 stage and television Macbeth, then returned to the play in 1982 as Macbeth himself.
Big break
Troy Kennedy Martin, the creator of Z-Cars, cast Peck in 1985 as policeman Ronald Craven, the lead in his television miniseries Edge of Darkness.
Big break
Peck's career as a film actor was really launched by his portrayal of the android Byron in Slipstream, a post-apocalyptic science-fiction adventure released in 1989.
Bob Peck movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Bob Peck shares two films with Tim McInnerny, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Tim McInnerny's page
Anton Lesser's page
Samuel L. Jackson's page
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Harry HookDirector, 1 film, 1990
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Bille AugustDirector, 1 film, 1997
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Online
Official profiles and reference pages.