Peter Egan
Also Known As: Peter Joseph Egan
Biography: Peter Joseph Egan (born 28 September 1946) is a British actor known for his TV roles, including Hogarth in Big Breadwinner Hog, the future King George IV of the United Kingdom in Prince Regent (1979); smooth neighbour Paul Ryman in the sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89); and Hugh "Shrimpie" MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire, in Downton Abbey (2012–15). He is married to retired actress Myra Frances. Egan was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Doris (née Pick) and Michael Thomas Egan, who is of Irish descent.[1][2] He was educated at St. George's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School, Maida Vale. He also attended the London Oratory School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. (Wikipedia)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Birthday: September 28, 1946
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Gender: Male
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Bean
Overview: Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him fired is blocked by the chairman, who has taken a liking to Bean, they send him to Los Angeles to act as their ambassador for the unveiling of a historic painting to humiliate him. Fooled, Mr. Bean must now successfully unveil the painting or risk his and a hapless Los Angeles curator's termination.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-03
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Death at a Funeral
Overview: A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-17
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Man to Man
Overview: An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-13
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2001: A Space Travesty
Overview: When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret international moon base called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone, the US Marshall Service immediately sends their 'best' man, Dix, on the mission.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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The Wedding Date
Overview: With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-04
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Chariots of Fire
Overview: In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Overview: A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-24
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Dear Brutus
Overview: "They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-27
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The Peacock Spring
Overview: Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. Two English schoolgirls arrive in New Delhi, 1959. Their diplomat father has secured them a beautiful Eurasian governess. 15-year-old Una suspects an ulterior motive. But her father’s affairs take second place to her own when she has a secret affair with the Indian gardener.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Gobble
Overview: As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-15
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The Hireling
Overview: Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-10
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The King's Beard
Overview: A king whose beard is long and beloved. An aspiring barber looking for acknowledgement. A kingdom unaware of the dark secret behind their ruler's lush beard.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
Overview: The tender and tragic love story of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife and lifelong model Marthe. The artist recorded their relationship on canvas and, 50 years after his death, these paintings have established him as one of the masters of colour and light.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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The Lifeswappers
Overview: Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-12
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To Catch a King
Overview: Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-20
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Harambe
Overview: This powerful feature length documentary explores animal captivity from a modern perspective through the lens of Harambe’s tragic life and death. Harambe, a critically endangered western lowland silverback gorilla, was shot and killed after a child fell into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016. The story made international news and Harambe’s photo quickly became a viral internet sensation that sparked an important discussion on captivity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-24
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National Theatre Live: People
Overview: People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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The I Inside
Overview: When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-21
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Callan
Overview: David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assassination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-23
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The Dark Side of the Sun
Overview: Supernatural thriller series dealing with a secret society on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Rivals
Overview: The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-17
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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Overview: On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov’s masterly meditation on how the old take revenge on the young is both comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage. Adapted by David Hare whose stage plays include Skylight, Pravada and screenplays include The Hours and The Reader, directed by Jonathan Kent (Gypsy, Private Lives).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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And Mrs
Overview: When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of the land, and her loved one's objections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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The Kitchen
Overview: Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his most performed play. The Kitchen has been produced in sixty cities including Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris - where it was the first widely recognized production by Théâtre du Soleil in 1967, Moscow, Montreal and Zurich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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The Cater Street Hangman
Overview: With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-19
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Hennessy
Overview: Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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The Price of the Bride
Overview: After a KGB agent defects to the US, the CIA has the job of not only taking from him his dowry of information (ie. the price of the bride), but also making sure he isn't a 'plant' to uncover secrets from us. All of this is complicated when it is suspected that another man is the real agent, and the defector but a decoy.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-08
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Whatever Love Means
Overview: Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year romance shared between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. Decades before the fairy tale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the young prince and his longtime sweetheart found their growing love tragically clipped by the many demands of royalty and the sometimes rough waters of romance. Though he had previously exchanged vows with the glamorous Diana, Prince Charles never truly forgot about Parker-Bowles, and in this film Anglophiles and royalty scholars alike will finally learn the truth behind one of the highest profile romances in modern history.
Genres: TV Movie History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-05
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One Brief Summer
Overview: The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who comes into their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Paradise Postponed
Overview: A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-15
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The Copyist
Overview: A fateful day in the life of a great composer. A play with music
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-24
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Beloved
Overview: When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-15
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Our Father
Overview: A young woman struggling with a secret, ponders life's mysteries in the place she knows best... a confession box.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-16
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