Edward Petherbridge (born on August 3, 1936 in Bradford) is a British actor. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in several screen adaptations of Dorothy Sayers' novels. August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The larger City of Bradford Metropolitan District includes other settlements in the surrounding area. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries — usually murder mysteries. ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...

A stalwart member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1960s, he created the role of Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980 he was a memorable Newman Noggs in the company's adaptation of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. He has spent extended periods with both national companies since then, where he occasionally collaborated with Sir Ian McKellen. In the mid-80s, he and McKellen formed an actor-centered troupe within the National Theatre; their first productions were Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Several countries have a National Theatre. ... Tom Stoppard in a 1985 documentary for the film Brazil Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ... Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870), pen-name “Boz”, was an English novelist of the Victorian era. ... The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, (or Nicholas Nickleby for short) is a comic novel of Charles Dickens. ... Sir Ian Murray McKellen CBE, (born May 25, 1939) is a veteran English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ... Anton Chekhov, Russian writer Pavel Chekov, character in Star Trek Chekhov, town in Moscow Oblast, Russia Chekhov, town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia Chekhovo, health resort in Bashkiria, Russia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Bust of Anton Chekhov at Badenweiler, Germany The Cherry Orchard (Вишнëвый сад or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian playwright Anton Chekhovs last play. ... John Webster (c. ... The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play, written by the English dramatist John Webster and first performed in 1614 at the Globe Theatre in London, and published for the first time in 1623. ...

Edward Petherbridge first came to the attention of American audiences in the already mentioned play version of The Life And Times Of Nicholas Nickleby. First televised in 1982 this lengthy adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel had been performed on the London stage, and later in New York. Mr. Petherbridge was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance of Newman Noggs. A Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play has been awarded since 1949. ...

Mr. Petherbridge next appeared on the American stage in Strange Interlude opposite Glenda Jackson. For his performance as Charles Marsden, Mr. Petherbridge was again honored with a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a play. Strange Interlude is an experimental play by the great American playwright Eugene ONeill. ... Glenda Jackson Glenda May Jackson, CBE, (born 9 May 1936) is a two-time Academy Award-winning British actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. ...

Mr. Petherbridge continued to be seen on American television in such miniseries as Noble House (1988 with Pierce Brosnan), Gulliver's Travels (1996 with Ted Danson), and A Christmas Carol (1999 with Patrick Stewart). Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. ... Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer who now holds American citizenship and is best known for portraying James Bond in four films: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). ... First Edition of Gullivers Travels Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ... Ted Danson in the TV sitcom Becker The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image. ... A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol ) is what Charles Dickens described as his little Christmas Book and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech. ... Patrick Stewart OBE (born July 13, 1940) is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated English film, television and stage actor. ...

An actor of many facets, Mr Petherbridge's talents are now mainly seen on the London stage. His recent performances were at the London Palladium in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as The Toymaker, and at the Palace Theatre in the Woman in White, playing Mr. Fairlie. He is currently appearing in Michael Frayn's Donkeys' Years. Other English productions Mr. Petherbridge has starred in include:The Lady in White, Valentine's Day, Twelfth Night and Busman's Honeymoon (costarring with his wife Emily Richard). He is to play King Lear in a New Zealand production of the play in August 2007. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964). ... Notable theatres called the Palace Theatre include: Palace Theatre, London Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, EssexA real play house with Edwardian splendour. ... According to folklore, La Llorona (pronounced lah yoh-roh-nah, Spanish for the crying one), sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children, whose appearances are sometimes held to presage death. ... Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. ... King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is generally regarded as one of William Shakespeares greatest tragedies. ...

External links

• Edward Petherbridge on the IMDB.