Peter Birrel

This article is about the actor. For the musician, see Pete Birrell.

Peter Birrel
Born
Peter Cohen[1] (some sources cite Peter Birrel Cohen)

(1935-07-19)19 July 1935
Vienna, Austria[2]
Died23 June 2004(2004-06-23) (aged 68)
Bath, Somerset, England
OccupationActor
Spouse
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(m. 1998)​

Peter Birrel (né Peter Cohen;[1] 19 July 1935 – 23 June 2004) was an English actor who played numerous parts on British television for nearly forty years.[3]

Birrel appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontier in Space in 1973, as well as in the documentary I Was a "Doctor Who" Monster.[4] He also appeared in the first series of Alexander the Greatest.[5] His film credits included Freelance (1971), Arch of Triumph (1984), and the television miniseries Freud (1984), War and Remembrance (1988) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989).[3][6] In 1979 he played a guest-role in George and Mildred as George's brother Charlie Roper in the episode A Military Pickle.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Page 1309 | Issue 43568, 5 February 1965 | London Gazette | The Gazette". thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Charles Sydney Solomon Cohen". geni_family_tree. 1899.
  3. ^ a b "Peter Birrel". BFI. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Frontier in Space ★★★★". Radio Times.
  5. ^ "Search Results". www.calmview2.eu.
  6. ^ "Peter Birrel". www.aveleyman.com.
  7. ^ "A Military Pickle (1979)". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022.