Peter Swanwick

{{Short description|British actor (1922–1968)}}

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| name = Peter Swanwick

| image = Peter Swanwick in One Step Beyond (The Sorcerer).jpg

| caption = Swanwick in the TV series One Step Beyond, episode The Sorcerer, 1961

| birth_name = Walter Peter Swanwick

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|09|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|11|14|1922|09|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = London, England, UK

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| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1951–1968

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Walter Peter Swanwick (29 September 1922 – 14 November 1968) was a British actor best remembered as the "Supervisor" (sometimes called the Controller) in the 1967 TV series, The Prisoner.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YXpbCAAAQBAJ&q=peter+swanwick+actor&pg=PA199|title=Anticlockwise|first1=Rodney|last1=Marshall|first2=Sam|last2=Denham|first3=Bernard|last3=Ginez|first4=Richard|last4=Cogzell|first5=Frank|last5=Shailes|first6=Piers|last6=Johnson|first7=Frank|last7=Hui|first8=Darren|last8=Burch|first9=Margaret J.|last9=Gordon|first10=J. Z.|last10=Ferguson|first11=Sunday|last11=Swift|first12=Lauren|last12=Humphries-Brooks|first13=Matthew|last13=Lee|first14=Mark|last14=Saunders|first15=Dan|last15=O'Shea|date=11 December 2014 |publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781326118204|via=Google Books}}

Swanwick's film career began with bit parts in films such as The African Queen (1951), and he became a recognisable face on British TV during the mid-1960s when he featured in a number of series, including The Avengers and Danger Man where he first worked with later Prisoner star and co-creator, Patrick McGoohan.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba96cb645|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426062111/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba96cb645|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 April 2018|title=Peter Swanwick|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/peter-swanwick-p69304/filmography|title=Peter Swanwick - Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/profileswanwick.htm|title=Unmutual Prisoner Village People - Peter Swanwick (McGoohan/Portmeirion)|website=www.theunmutual.co.uk}}

According to several biographies {{cite web|url=http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-swanwick.htm|title=The Avengers Forever: Peter Swanwick|website=theavengers.tv}} Swanwick endured major health problems in the 1960s that resulted in his undergoing undisclosed operations that left him with a short time to live.

Swanwick played the non-singing part of Herr Zeller in the original London stage production of The Sound of Music.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1elCAAAQBAJ&q=peter+swanwick+herr+zeller&pg=PT81|title=The Sound of Music FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Maria, the von Trapps, and Our Favorite Things|first=Barry|last=Monush|date=1 February 2015|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781495025945|via=Google Books}}