Peter Williams (actor, born 1915)

Peter Williams
Born	28 April 1915 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Died	August 2003 (aged 88) East Sussex, United Kingdom
Nationality	American and British
Occupations	Actor major in British Army
Years active	1948-1980 (film & TV)

Peter Williams (1915–2003) was an American-born British film, theatre and television actor.^[1][2] He is best known for his role as private detective Don Carter in the long-running British crime series Shadow Squad in the late 1950s.^[3][4] He was married to Helen "Toto" Irving, and had two children.

Selected filmography

Film

• Brass Monkey (1948)
• Bless 'Em All (1948)
• The Straw Man (1953)
• Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• Richard III (1955)
• Private's Progress (1956)
• The Man Who Never Was (1956)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Dunkirk (1958)
• On the Beach (1959)
• Two Letter Alibi (1962)

Television

• Strange Experiences (1955–56)
• Shadow Squad (1957)
• Ivanhoe (1958)
• Pathfinders in Space (1960)
• Barnaby Rudge (1960)
• City Beneath the Sea (1962)
• The Human Jungle (1963)
• Gideon's Way (1965)
• Redcap (1966)
• Man in a Suitcase (1968)
• The Champions (1968)
• The Main Chance (1970)
• Pretenders (1972)
• I, Claudius (1976)

Selected stage work

• Daphne Laureola - Old Vic & Broadway (1949 & 1950)^[2]
• Henry V - Stratford (1951)^[5]

References

Bibliography

• Paul Cornell, Martin Day & Keith Topping. The Guinness Book of Classic British TV. Guinness, 1996.
• Bernard Sendall. Independent Television in Britain: Origin and foundation, 1946-62. Macmillan, 1982.

External links

• Peter Williams at IMDb
• Peter Williams at the Internet Broadway Database

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