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 London's 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, Z-Cars, 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"), Sutherland's 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6651 |
| Birthday | 1915-05-20 |
| Place of Birth | Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Peter Francis Gabain Copley, |
2005
Riot at the Rite
8/2
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor St...
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Riot at the Rite
1964
The July Plot
10/1
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
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The July Plot
1967
Quatermass and the Pit
6.634/272
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
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Quatermass and the Pit
1965
The Knack... and How to Get It
5.954/76
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up wi...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
1957
Just My Luck
6.136/11
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants t...
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Just My Luck
1984
Androcles and the Lion
0/0
Shaw used the traditional fable of Andocles to focus on the integrity of religious belief. Androcles, a christian fleeing persecution in Rome, is capt...
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Androcles and the Lion
1953
The Sword and the Rose
6.413/23
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She...
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The Sword and the Rose
1969
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
6.3/129
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum....
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1972
What Became of Jack and Jill?
4.8/10
Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to convin...
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What Became of Jack and Jill?
1964
King and Country
7.2/63
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Cap...
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King and Country
1950
Golden Salamander
6.15/20
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
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Golden Salamander
1957
The Smallest Show on Earth
6.7/36
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died a...
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The Smallest Show on Earth
1987
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
0/0
Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987
Empire of the Sun
7.505/2106
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...
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Empire of the Sun
1986
King of the Ghetto
8/2
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's east end
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King of the Ghetto
1934
Tell Me If It Hurts
7/1
A short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingham.
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Tell Me If It Hurts
1966
Don't Utter a Note
0/0
Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount...
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Don't Utter a Note
1973
Beyond Our Means
0/0
A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to t...
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Beyond Our Means
1992
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
6.406/16
In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of...
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A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1965
Stranger in the Family
7/1
A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.
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Stranger in the Family
1969
Tower of London: The Innocent
6.5/2
The story of the Earl of Warwick and Perkin Warbeck, during the reign of King Henry VII.
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Tower of London: The Innocent
1969
Walk a Crooked Path
3.75/4
Set in an exclusive boy's school, about a man who plans to kill off his wealthy teacher wife by encouraging her to drink and pushing her into suicide....
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Walk a Crooked Path
1959
Mystery in the Mine
8/1
Jane and Tom set out on an adventure in which they must keep the corrupt Grimblatt from locating the K-13 fuel for his evil space mirror.
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Mystery in the Mine
1953
Saadia
6/5
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she...
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Saadia
1937
Farewell Again
6.5/2
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...
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Farewell Again
1975
Hennessy
5.083/12
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Thou...
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Hennessy
2005
Oliver Twist
6.749/1237
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...
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Oliver Twist
1975
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
8.6/10
In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has been replaced by a sinister Egyptian. Cloth-wrapp...
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Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
1952
The Card
6.951/41
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so...
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The Card
1976
Shout at the Devil
6.019/52
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battl...
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Shout at the Devil
1969
Mosquito Squadron
5.5/31
England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while t...
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Mosquito Squadron
1999
Janice Beard 45 WPM
5.2/5
Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding s...
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Janice Beard 45 WPM
1957
The Man Without a Body
4.222/9
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monk...
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The Man Without a Body
1979
Churchill and the Generals
9/1
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
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Churchill and the Generals
1973
Gawain and the Green Knight
5/6
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
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Gawain and the Green Knight
1981
United Kingdom
7/1
Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents who atte...
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United Kingdom
1956
Foreign Intrigue
5.731/26
Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his e...
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Foreign Intrigue
1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
6.776/85
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
1964
The Third Secret
6.183/30
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter...
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The Third Secret
1977
The Black Panther
5.826/23
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
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The Black Panther
1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.355/317
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of D...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
1965
Help!
6.847/346
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off)....
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Help!
1952
The Hour of 13
6.083/6
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspec...
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The Hour of 13
1970
Jane Eyre
7.158/19
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
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Jane Eyre
1958
Rockets Galore
6.429/7
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...
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Rockets Galore
1957
Time Without Pity
6.56/50
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...
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Time Without Pity
1961
Victim
7.49/157
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of suc...
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Victim
1957
The Film That Never Was
0/0
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The Film That Never Was
1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
5.429/7
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1956
Peril for the Guy
7.667/3
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
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Peril for the Guy
1972
That's Your Funeral
4.25/4
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
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That's Your Funeral
1953
The Clue of the Missing Ape
7.333/3
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
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The Clue of the Missing Ape
1980
Rabbit Pie Day
0/0
As World War II draws to a close thousands of Russian soldiers overtaken by the Allied advance in Europe find themselves in England - and they like it...
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Rabbit Pie Day
1966
The Devil's Eggshell
7/1
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings...
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The Devil's Eggshell
1969
All at Sea
10/1
The unexpected adventures of children on a school cruise to Portugal and North Africa. In Tangier, Steve, whose hobby is detecting, suspects that a pa...
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All at Sea
1958
The Government Inspector
6/1
Gogol's comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.
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The Government Inspector
1957
The End Begins
0/0
On an island off the west coast of Great Britain, a group of survivors of World War Three struggle to continue living. Hugh Packenham foresaw the onco...
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The End Begins
1967
The Investigation
0/0
Television adaptation of Peter Weiss's play about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
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The Investigation
1994
One Corpse Too Many
0/0
Assigned by King Stephen to dispose of 94 hanged rebels, Cadfael discovers the body of a murdered man among the corpses and given just four days to so...
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One Corpse Too Many
1994
The Sanctuary Sparrow
0/0
Liliwin is a poor acrobat hired to entertain at an Aurifaber wedding. But when he is dismissed and the master of the house is found unconscious and ro...
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The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994
The Leper of St. Giles
0/0
When a cruel middle-aged baron and a beautiful wealthy orphan are to be wed at the abbey, it comes as no surprise when the sadistic nobleman is found...
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The Leper of St. Giles
1994
Monk's Hood
0/0
When an unpleasant and cruel nobleman spites his stepson by ceding his estate to the abbey, he ends up being poisoned by one of Brother Cadfael's medi...
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Monk's Hood
1982
Witness for the Prosecution
6.457/23
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he...
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Witness for the Prosecution
1965
The Man Who Came to Die
0/0
Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body of their friend Edward Fellow...
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The Man Who Came to Die
1969
Immortality Inc
0/0
The very rich can buy eternal life: all that's needed is someone desperate enough to donate, for a high price, a young body into which their personali...
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Immortality Inc
1971
Taste of Evil
0/0
Stephen Chambers, a new master of Warby Stones school for the 'ultra-intelligent boys', finds strange things happening to him. Reason tells him that t...
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