Peter Dennis
Biography
Peter Dennis was an English actor who worked in film, television, theater and voice roles on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in Dorking, Surrey, he served in the British Army before a performance of Look Back in Anger prompted him to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1965. He played leading parts at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, performed at the Everyman and Repertory theaters in Liverpool, and worked in London's West End, becoming a regular presence on British television in shows such as The Avengers. His solo stage piece Bother! The Brain of Pooh, first performed in 1976, drew on the writing of A. A. Milne, and he toured it for more than thirty years, winning a Drama-Logue Award and a Los Angeles Theatre Award. His screen credits included Shrek (2001) and Sideways (2004), the latter earning him a Screen Actors Guild Award for ensemble work.
75years old at death
- Born Dorking
- Died Shadow Hills
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Peter John Dennis
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 19 years1988 to 2007
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A change of course
Peter Dennis was working as a personal assistant when he saw his first play, Look Back in Anger at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, on his 29th birthday, and dictated his resignation the next day.
Early training
Dennis attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art by the following autumn, and he graduated from there two years later, in 1965.
Beyond film
Dennis's one-man show Bother! The Brain of Pooh opened at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge on 14 October 1976. The performance celebrated 50 years since A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh was published.
Beyond film
Peter Dennis's show Bother! had its American premiere in Hollywood in December 1986 at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, invited by Anna Strasberg of the Actors Studio. There it received the Drama-Logue Award and the Los Angeles Theatre Award.
Beyond film
Dennis performed Bother! at more than eighty venues across America and Europe, including the Hollywood Bowl under conductor George Daugherty and the Palace of Westminster at the Prime Minister's invitation.
Peter Dennis movies on Netflix
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Worked with
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Films together
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Andrew AdamsonDirector, 1 film, 2001
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