Peter Bowles
{{short description|English actor (1936–2022)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Peter Bowles
| image = File:Peter Bowles.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Peter John Bowles
| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|10|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|3|17|1936|10|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = London, England
| years_active = 1956–2021
| occupation = Actor
| spouse = {{marriage|Susan Bennett|1961}}
| children = 3
}}
Peter John Bowles (16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022){{Cite web |date=17 March 2022 |title=Peter Bowles obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/17/peter-bowles-obituary |website=the Guardian}} was an English screen and stage actor. He gained prominence for television dramas such as Callan: A Magnum for Schneider and I, Claudius. He is best remembered for his roles in sitcoms and television comedy dramas, including: Rumpole of the Bailey, Only When I Laugh, To the Manor Born, The Bounder, The Irish R.M., Lytton's Diary, Executive Stress and Perfect Scoundrels.
Early life and education
Bowles was born in London, England.{{cite news |author1=Brian Pendreigh |title=Obituaries: Peter Bowles, suave leading man best known for To the Manor Born |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/obituaries-peter-bowles-suave-leading-man-best-known-for-to-the-manor-born-3625138 |access-date=11 August 2024 |work=The Scotsman |date=25 March 2022}} His father was Herbert Reginald Bowles, valet-companion and chauffeur to Drogo Montagu, son of the Earl of Sandwich, then a butler to the daughter of Lord Beaverbrook.{{Cite book |last=Bowles |first=Peter |title=Ask Me if I'm Happy: An Actor's Life |date=January 1, 2011 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=978-1847399038 |edition=1st |language=en}} His mother was Sarah Jane (née Harrison), from Scotland, who served as a nanny to the family of the Duke of Argyll before coming to England and working for Beaverbrook's family, which is where they met.
Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, Bowles's father was sent to Rolls-Royce Aero-engine factory in Hucknall, Nottingham, where the family lived in a small "two-up, two-down" house. Bowles attended the Nottingham High Pavement Grammar School, where he was taught English by the novelist Stanley Middleton, and won a scholarship to train as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he won the Kendall Prize and later he became an associate.
He later lived at 32 Kersall Drive, off the B682 in Highbury Vale, directly opposite the Henry Mellish Grammar SchoolNottingham Evening Post Wednesday 28 March 1956, page 9 He attended Co-op Arts Centre.
Theatre
After RADA, Bowles began his career with the Old Vic Company in 1956 playing small parts in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Richard II, with Claire Bloom, Paul Rogers (actor) and John Neville (actor). After a season the company toured North America, concluding with a sell-out season at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.{{Cite web |date=23 October 2024 |title=Peter-Bowles/past |url=https://theatricalia.com/person/3cz/peter-bowles/past?page=2 |website=Theatricalia}}
In March 1956, he was given a contract by the theatre company to take part on a 25-week tour of the US and Canada, from September 1956.Nottingham Evening News Friday 17 August 1956, page 6 He first appeared at the Nottingham Playhouse on Monday 2 December 1957, in Witness for the Prosecution, with Rosalie Westwater, Richard Mathews, Brian Spink, Gillian Martell, John Cater and producer John Rule.Nottingham Evening News'' Thursday 28 November 1957, page 6
Later in December 1957 he played the Wolf in a pantomime of Little Red Riding Hood, written by David Waller. In January 1958, the company put on Henry V, with him playing the Constable of France. In February 1958, the company put on The Perfect Woman and Three Sisters (play) by Chekhov. In March the company put on Our Town. From mid-April the company put on She Stoops to Conquer, where he played Sir Charles Marlow, and the production featured John Woodvine.Nottingham Guardian Wednesday 9 April 1958, page 4
Bowles then joined the Bristol Old Vic Company for a season playing character parts and taking two Shakespeare productions to the Baalbeck Festival.{{Cite web |date=23 October 2024 |title=Play/n/romeo-and-juliet/production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/n/romeo-and-juliet/production/9dt |access-date=23 October 2024 |website=Theatricalia}} This led to him being offered two plays by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London in September 1960: Dr Copperthwaite in The Happy Haven written by John McGragh and directed by Bill Gaskell,{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The-Happy-Haven/production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/4bh/the-happy-haven/production/t92 |website=Theatricalia}} and Kirill in Platanov by Checkov, directed by George Devine, which starred Rex Harrison.
In 1961, after appearing in J.B. at the Phoenix Theatre directed by Laurier Lister in September{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Life worth living/production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/ayq/life-worth-living/production/pr8}} (which closed after four weeks on the day of his wedding), Bowles was cast in October of that year as Roger in Bonne Soupe, starring Coral Browne and directed by Eleanor Fazan at the Comedy Theatre and then Wyndhams Theatre.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Bonne Soup production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/cq8/bonne-soupe/production/13be}}
Later, Bowles was in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, also starring Richard Briers, at the Garrick Theatre in 1975.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Absent Friends Production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/55m/absent-friends/production/xax}} Then came Tom Stoppard's Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land at the Arts Theatre in 1976.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Dirty Linen Production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/aew/dirty-linen/production/ncg}} (Bowles had last played there in 1963 in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men in a cast that also included James Fox, Alan Howard and the actress and pop artist Pauline Boty). In 1980 in starred in Born in the Gardens by Peter Nichols directed by Clifford Williams first at the Bristol Old Vic and then at the Globe.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Born in the Garden |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/54g/born-in-the-gardens/production/b84}}{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Born in the Gardens Production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/54g/born-in-the-gardens/production/149k}}
Bowles's first starring role in the theatre after many years of TV successes was as Archie Rice in John Osborne's The Entertainer at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1986;{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The Entertainer production |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/47k/the-entertainer/production/bvy}} he was the first actor to play the part in London since Laurence Olivier in 1957. In 1990 Bowles starred opposite Michael Gambon in Alan Ayckbourn's Man of the Moment at the Globe Theatre.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Man of the Moment |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/5nk/man-of-the-moment/production/cj8}}
The role of Vic Parkes was Bowles's first, but not last, performance as an East End gangster. After Running Late Sir Peter Hall began to offer Bowles a succession of leading roles in West End theatre, including Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables opposite Patricia Hodge.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Separate Tables |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/44p/separate-tables/production/cy4}} and George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara with Jemma Redgrave. George S. Kaufman's The Royal Family and Noël Coward's Hay Fever, both opposite Judi Dench at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, followed.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The Royal Family |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/fk8/the-royal-family/production/10ca}} In 1996 Bowles played Arnolphe in Molière's The School for Wives at the Piccadilly Theatre.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The School For Wives |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/401/the-school-for-wives/production/k54}}
Another play for Hall, this time at the Theatre Royal, Bath, was Rattigan's The Browning Version. Bowles' last play for Hall was Sheridan's The Rivals in 2011,{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The Rivals |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/e/the-rivals/production/109e}} opposite Dame Penelope Keith, again at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. His other West End theatre plays include Coward's Present Laughter,{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Present Laughter |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/3hb/present-laughter/production/15nz}} Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth,{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Sleuth |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/4yp/sleuth/production/dyv}} Peter Nichols' Born in the Gardens, Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Wait Until Dark |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/4xh/wait-until-dark/production/1363}} and in 2004, Simon Gray's The Old Masters.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The Old Masters |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/gq1/the-old-masters/production/12rk}} directed by Harold Pinter at the Comedy Theatre.
Then again at the Haymarket Theatre in Hutchinson's The Beau, opposite Richard McCabe,{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The Beau |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/6fc/the-beau-aka-beau-brummell/production/e44}} and Rattigan's In Praise of Love at the Apollo Theatre.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=In Praise of Love |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/6fb/in-praise-of-love/production/jrv}} In a South Bank Show special Melvyn Bragg interviewed George MacDonald Fraser, and Bowles played the part of Fraser's hero 'Harry Flashman'. Other parts include Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion and the General in Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, both at the Chichester Festival Theatre;{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The Walts of the Toreadors |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/48w/the-waltz-of-the-toreadors/production/swg}} and Judge Brack in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (translation: Frank McGuinness) opposite Francesca Annis.
Bowles played the ultimate gangster in Mellis and Scinto's Gangster No 1 at the Almeida Theatre{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Gangster No.1 |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/63b/gangster-no-1/production/d9m}} in 1995 for which he held the film rights; he raised money from Channel 4 Films and was executive producer for the film Gangster No. 1 (2000), starring Paul Bettany.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=Gangster No 1 Full credits |website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210065/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm}}
Bowles's final starring role was Father Merrin in The Exorcist at the Phoenix Theatre directed by Sean Mathias.{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=The Exorcist |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/fm7/the-exorcist/production/10ey}}
Filmography
Bowles was warned by casting directors on leaving the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) that because of his swarthy looks he would never play an Englishman. Indeed, his early career in television consisted mostly of playing villains (usually foreign) in such shows as The Avengers (Bowles featured in four series), Danger Man, The Saint, The Persuaders! and The Prisoner (as 'A' in "A. B. and C.", 1967).
Bowles played Balor ("the most evil man in the universe") in an episode of Space: 1999. He also appeared as Caractacus in the TV adaptation of I, Claudius (1976). His first major English role was Guthrie Featherstone QC MP, whom he played in many series of Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992), while in 1975 he played David Grant, husband of Abby Grant in the BBC series Survivors; his character died in the first episode.
After playing his first comedy role on TV (Hilary) in an episode of Rising Damp, Bowles was often seen as a comedy actor and parts in comedy series such as To the Manor Born, Only When I Laugh, The Bounder, and Executive Stress followed; however, he turned down the role of Jerry in The Good Life.
The success of To the Manor Born, playing the part of Richard DeVere (a nouveau riche millionaire supermarket owner originally from Czechoslovakia) which had audiences of over 20 million for all twenty-one episodes, changed Bowles' life. After being told by the BBC his success in comedy meant he would never work in drama again,{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} Bowles devised a drama series called Lytton's Diary, which he sold to ITV.
It was while starring in Lytton's Diary that he was offered the title role of Major Yeates in the television series The Irish R.M. for Channel 4. A headline in the Evening Standard after that series' success read "Bowles Saves Channel 4".
Much of Bowles' work was now being shown on American television, including PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, and he was very flattered to discover that admirers in America of his work included Stephen Sondheim, Quentin Tarantino and Marlon Brando. Following The Irish R.M., Bowles co-devised the comedy/drama series Perfect Scoundrels, which ran for three series on ITV.
In 1991, Bowles took an idea for a dramatic film to the BBC; it was accepted, and after being written and adapted by Simon Gray, became Running Late, a film in the Screen One series. This was to be Bowles' first performance on BBC Television since To the Manor Born a decade earlier. Bowles, besides starring, also co-produced with Verity Lambert. The film went on to win The Golden Gate Award in 1993 at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
From 2016 to 2019, Bowles played the recurring role of the Duke of Wellington in the award-winning ITV series Victoria.
Personal life and death
Bowles married Susan Bennett on 8 April 1961.England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 Volume Number: 5d Page Number: 701 The couple lived in Barnes, south-west London{{Cite news |date=7 September 2003 |title=Cover story: Barnes Bounder changes his manor |url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/cover-story-barnes-bounder-changes-his-manor-ls02gqlph28 |via=www.thetimes.co.uk}} and had three children together.
Bowles died aged 85, on 17 March 2022, from cancer.{{cite news |date=17 March 2022 |title=Peter Bowles: To The Manor Born actor dies aged 85 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60777622 |access-date=17 March 2022 |work=BBC News}}{{Cite web |date=17 March 2022 |title=To the Manor Born star Peter Bowles dies, aged 85 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/peter-bowles-death-age-to-the-manor-born-b2037977.html |website=The Independent}}{{Cite news |date=17 March 2022 |title=Peter Bowles, raffish actor who found fame alongside Penelope Keith in to the Manor Born – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/03/17/peter-bowles-raffish-actor-found-fame-alongside-penelope-keith/ |newspaper=The Telegraph}}
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1961
| Wings of Death | Williams | Short |
| 1962
| Reginald Parker | |
| 1963
| Peter the Pole | Uncredited |
| rowspan="2"|1965
| Pepper | |
| Dead Man's Chest
| Joe |
| rowspan="2"|1966
| Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World | Paris Singer | TV film |
| Blow-Up
| Ron | |
| 1968
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Paymaster Captain Duberly | |
| rowspan="4"|1969
| Jealous lover of 'La Belle Amie' | Uncredited |
| Laughter in the Dark
| Paul | |
| The Stiffkey Scandals of 1932
| Roland Oliver, KC | TV film |
| Taste of Excitement
| Guardi | |
| 1970
| Victor Grazzini | |
| rowspan="3"|1972
| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Freddie | |
| Shelley
| Byron | TV film |
| Endless Night
| Reuben | |
| rowspan="3"|1973
| Cameron | |
| The Legend of Hell House
| Hanley | |
| Thinking Man As Hero
| Frank Cordroy | TV film |
| rowspan="3"|1977
| Ronald | |
| The Disappearance
| Jefferies | |
| Stigma
| Peter | TV film |
| 1988
| Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Lord Jack Carberry | TV film |
| 1989
| Igor | |
| 1993
| Passport to Murder | Inspector Bullion | TV film |
| 1995
| Lord Childwell | |
| 1998
| Little White Lies | Oliver | TV film |
| 1999
| Tumbled | Mr Gilzean | Short |
| 2000
| Jack Warner | |
| 2001
| Melville | TV film |
| 2005
| Cyril | |
| 2007
| Sir Donald Houghton | TV film |
| rowspan="2"|2008
| Freebird | The Chairman | |
| The Bank Job
| Miles Urquart | |
| 2011
| Max Templeton | |
| rowspan="2"|2014
| Lilting | Alan | |
| Peterman
| Old Boy | |
| 2015
| Meet Pursuit Delange: The Movie | Sir Edward Mead | |
| 2016
| Not Waving | Archie | Short |
| 2017
| We Are Tourists | William | |
| 2018
| Together | Philip | |
| 2021
| Vicar | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1958
| Simpson | Episode: "Underground" |
| 1959
| The Last Chronicle of Barset | Constable | Episode: "How Did He Get It?" |
| rowspan="3"|1961
| Doctor Knock | First Countryman | Episode: "Act 2" |
| Magnolia Street
| Benny Edelman | Series regular |
| ITV Play of the Week
| Lieutenant Myers | Episode: "Conflict in the Sun" |
| 1962
| Pete | Episode: "Thank You and Goodnight" |
| rowspan="3"|1963
| It Happened Like This | Edwardes | Episode: "Superstitions" |
| Crane
| Nikkolai Drax | Episode: "Three Days to Die" |
| The Avengers
| Neil Anstice | Episode: "Second Sight" |
| rowspan="9"|1964
| Maurice Kerr | Episode: "Lida" |
| Drama 61-67
| Captain Buckley | Episode: "The Crunch" |
| The Protectors
| Dr Fothergill | Episode: "The Bottle Shop" |
| The Great War
| Winston Churchill | Episode: "So Sleep Easy in Your Beds" |
| ITV Play of the Week
| Razumikhin | Episode: "Crime and Punishment" |
| Danger Man
| Gamal | Episode: "Fish on the Hook" |
| rowspan="2"|Armchair Theatre
| Morgan | Episode: "The Pretty English Girls" |
| Dermot Llewelyn
| Episode: "A Certain Kind of Silence" |
| rowspan="2"|No Hiding Place
| Joe Bask | Episode: "Real Class" |
| rowspan="10"|1965
| Machin | Episode: "A Fistful of Trouble" |
| Public Eye
| Freddy | Episode: "A Harsh World for Zealots" |
| Love Story
| Jack Everett | Episode: "Never Sup at Home" |
| Crane
| Vincent Morrow | Episode: "A Cargo of Cornflour" |
| Edgar Wallace Mysteries
| Joe | Episode: "Dead Man's Chest" |
| Jury Room
| Detective-Inspector | Episode: "The Side of Mercy" |
| Six of the Best
| Tom Brown | Episode: "Me and My Big Mouth" |
| Famous Gossips
| Garçon de café | Episode: "Oscar Wilde: Monsieur Sebastian Melmoth" |
| Out of the Unknown
| Policeman | Episode: "Some Lapse of Time" |
| The Avengers
| John Harvey | Episode: "Dial a Deadly Number" |
| rowspan="6"|1966
| Philip Royston | Recurring role |
| Sunday Night
| Melville | Episode: "The Quarry: Portrait of a Man as a Paralysed Artist" |
| Redcap
| Butros | Episode: "Buckingham Palace" |
| The Informer
| Jack Hart | 2 episodes |
| The Baron
| Jim Gaynor | Episode: "You Can't Win Them All" |
| Armchair Theatre
| Sergeant Howlett | Episode: "Don't Utter a Note" |
| rowspan="7"|1967
| Thyssen | Episode: "Escape in Time" |
| The Saint
| Serge | Episode: "The Art Collectors" |
| Armchair Theatre
| Toby Meres | Episode: "A Magnum for Schneider" (Pilot of "Callan" series) |
| Adam Adamant Lives!
| D.K. Davies | Episode: "Another Little Drink" |
| The Troubleshooters
| Abbas Ramzi | Episode: "My Daughter Knows Her Way Around" |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
| Harvey Deacon | Episode: "Playing with Fire" |
| The Prisoner
| 'A' | Episode: "A. B. and C." |
| rowspan="5"|1968
| Professor Baxter | Episode: "The Dynamizer" |
| The Avengers
| Ezdorf | Episode: "Get-A-Way!" |
| Champion House
| Degnos | Episode: "The Golden Fleece" |
| Love Story
| Brian | Episode: "The Egg on the Face of the Tiger" |
| Sherlock Holmes
| Joseph Harrison | Episode: "The Naval Treaty" |
| rowspan="6"|1969
| Happy Ever After | Tony Bulstrode | Episode: "The Party Piece" |
| Department S
| Borowitsch | Episode: "Six Days" |
| W. Somerset Maugham
| Robert Crosbie | Episode: "The Letter" |
| The Gold Robbers
| Stockbroker | Episode: "The Kill" |
| Softly, Softly
| Conn | Episode: "One Thing Leads to Another" |
| Take Three Girls
| Jeremy Mandl-Fry | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|1970
| Ryan International | Alain | Episode: "The Dead Live Longer" |
| The Main Chance
| Roger Lamb | Episode: "The Best Legal System in the World" |
| Happy Ever After
| Michael | Episode: "The Ambassador" |
| rowspan="6"|1971
| Hadleigh | Robert Charlton | Episode: "Breakdown" |
| The Ten Commandments
| Tommy Radd | Episode: "Black Eye on Sunday" |
| Brett
| William Saxby | Series regular |
| The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
| Inspector Saunders | Episode: "The Woman in the Big Hat" |
| The Persuaders!
| Mitchell | Episode: "Element of Risk" |
| ITV Sunday Night Theatre
| Jack Campbell-Barnes | Episode: "Who Killed Santa Claus" |
| rowspan="4"|1972
| Bernard de Vignolles | Episode: "A Fly in the Ointment" |
| Alexander the Greatest
| Paul Clutton-Browne | Episode: "Renata's Secret Affair" |
| Harriet's Back in Town
| Jack | 2 episodes |
| The Protectors
| Gregor Kofax | Episode: "Triple Cross" |
| rowspan="6"|1973
| The Adventures of Black Beauty | Mr Duffield | Episode: "Wild Justice" |
| Crown Court
| Gerald Somerville | 3 episodes |
| Cheri
| Patron | 2 episodes |
| Arthur of the Britons
| Hecla | Episode: "Rowena" |
| Omnibus
| Oscar | Episode: "The Runaway" |
| Murder Must Advertise
| Major Todd Milligan | Mini-series |
| rowspan="3"|1974
| Captain Murat | Mini-series |
| Special Branch
| Igor | Episode: "Downwind of Angels" |
| Good Girl
| Colin Peale | Series regular |
| rowspan="6"|1975
| Croxley | Episode: "They All Sound Simple at First" |
| Thriller
| Superintendent Lucas | Episode: "The Double Kill" |
| Survivors
| David Grant | Episode: "The Fourth Horseman" |
| Churchill's People
| Thistlewood | Episode: "Death of Liberty" |
| Comedy Playhouse
| Patrick | Episode: "Only on Sundays" |
| Space: 1999
| Balor | Episode: "End of Eternity" |
| rowspan="2"|1976
| Ken Green | Series regular |
| I, Claudius
| Caractacus | Mini-series |
| rowspan="2"|1977
| A Roof Over My Head | Jack Askew | Episode: "A Roof Over My Head" |
| Rising Damp
| Hilary | Episode: "Stage Struck" |
| rowspan="4"|1978
| Inspector Hounslow | Episode: "Flint" |
| Pennies from Heaven
| Prosecuting Counsel | Episode: "Says My Heart" |
| The Sunday Drama
| Prince Borodski | Episode: "The Marrying Kind" |
| Bless Me, Father
| Fred Bowlby | Episode: "The Doomsday Chair" |
| 1978–1992
| Guthrie Featherstone | Series regular |
| rowspan="2"|1979
| Major Haddock | Episode: "Neck" |
| Turtle's Progress
| Superintendent Percy Weston | 1 episode |
| 1979–1982
| Archie Glover | Series regular |
| 1979–2007
| Richard DeVere | Series regular |
| 1980
| Nanny Knows Best | Billy Benson | |
| 1981
| Vice Versa | Paul Bultitude | Series regular |
| 1982–1983
| Howard Booth | Series regular |
| 1983
| Neville Lytton | Episode: "Lytton's Diary" |
| 1983–1985
| Major Sinclair Yeates | Series regular |
| 1985–1986
| Neville Lytton | Series regular |
| 1987–1988
| Donald Fairchild | Series regular |
| 1990–1992
| Guy Buchanan | Series regular |
| 1992
| George Grant | Episode: "Running Late" |
| 2000
| Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Captain Graves | Episode: "The Best Years of Your Death |
| 2003
| Bernie Farraday | Episode: "Love Nor Money" |
| 2005
| Jericho | Fleming | Mini-series |
| 2008
| rowspan="2"|Sir Roderick Horsfield | Episode: "Third Girl" |
| 2010
| Episode: "Hercule Poirot, Series X: Third Girl" |
| 2011
| Lionel Carson | Episode: "The Man Who Never Was" |
| 2015
| Lord Anstruther | Episode: "Farley Manor" |
| rowspan="2"|2016
| The Life of Rock with Brian Pern | Brian Pern's Father | Episode: "The Thotch Reunion" |
| Murder
| Greville Cotterall | Mini-series |
| 2016–2019
| Victoria | Series regular |
Awards and honours
- RADA Scholarship (1954){{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/penelope-keith-bbc-nottingham-old-vic-theatre-peter-hall-b2037963.html|title=To The Manor Born star Peter Bowles dies aged 85|date=17 March 2022|website=The Independent}}
- Madge Kendal Prize (1955){{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
- Male Comedy Star Award (1983){{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
- ITV Personality of the Year (1984)
- The Golden Gate Award (San Francisco International Film Festival, 1993){{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/peter-bowles-to-the-manor-born-actor-dies-85-tv-shows-star-3616294|title=The life and career of actor Peter Bowles, who has died aged 85|website=www.nationalworld.com}}
- Hon. Doctor of Literature, for contributions to the theatre, television drama and entertainment. (Nottingham Trent University, 2002)
Books
- Autobiography: Ask Me if I'm Happy[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12240663-ask-me-if-i-m-happy] Date accessed: July 2014 (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
- Behind the Curtain: The Job of Acting[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19303428-behind-the-curtain?from_search=true] Date accessed: July 2014 (Oberon Masters Series, 2012)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0101248|name=Peter Bowles}}
- {{Screenonline name|id=551271|name=Peter Bowles biography}}
- [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=Peter&surname=BOWLES&job=Actor&pid=1364&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 Selected roles in Bristol University Theatre Archive]
- {{discogs artist|Peter Bowles}}
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