Date of Birth
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03-August-1936
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Place of Birth
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Bradford
(England, United Kingdom, Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Petherbridge, Edward
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Profession
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Actor, Writer, Artist, Screenwriter
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Edward Petherbridge is an English actor, writer and artist. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers's novels. He created the role of Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, he was a memorable Newman Noggs in the company's adaptation of Dickens's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
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