Eyre, Peter 1942-

PERSONAL

Born March 11, 1942, in New York, NY; son of Edward Joseph (a banker) and Dorothy Pelline (maiden name, Acton) Eyre. Education: Attended Portsmouth Priory, Portsmouth, RI, and Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England. Politics: Democrat. Avocational Interests: Music.

Addresses:

Office—Original Productions, 308 West Verdugo Ave., Burbank, CA 91502. Agent—ICM, Ltd., Oxford House, 76 Oxford St., London W1D 1BS England.

Career:

Actor and writer. Worked with Royal Shakespeare Company at Old Vic Theatre, London; worked with various regional theatres in the United Kingdom; Original Productions, Burbank, CA, managing director; also worked at Original Productions U.K. Entertainment.

Member:

International PEN, Groucho Club.

Awards, Honors:

Children's Award nomination (with Nic Ayling), best factual, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 2002, for Art Attack.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Art director, Having a Wild Weekend (also known as Catch Us If You Can), Warner Bros., 1965.

Cinna, the poet, Julius Caesar, American International Pictures, 1970.

Priest, The Pied Piper (also known as The Pied Piper of Hamelin), Paramount, 1972.

Otto Mahler, Mahler, 1974.

George Tesman, Hedda, Brut Productions, 1975.

Edward, La luna (also known as Luna), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979.

Casiodorus Rex, Dragonslayer, Paramount, 1981.

Walter, Couples and Robbers, 1981.

Reverend Borenius, Maurice, Cinecom, 1987.

Gott, Just Ask for Diamond (also known as Diamond Edge), Kings Road Entertainment, 1988.

Norton Shaw, Mountains of the Moon, TriStar Pictures, 1990.

Humphreys, Let Him Have It (also known as L'age de vivre), 1991.

Mr. Pope, Orlando, Sony Pictures Classics, 1992.

Lord Halifax, The Remains of the Day, Columbia Pictures, 1993.

Lord Apthorpe, Princess Caraboo, 1994.

Sabartes, Surviving Picasso, Warner Bros., 1996.

English tango fan, The Tango Lesson (also known as La lecon de tango, La leccion de tango, and Tango-Feiber), Sony Pictures Classics, 1997.

The Doge, Dangerous Beauty (also known as The Honest Courtesan and A Destiny of Her Own), Warner Bros., 1998.

Jarvis, The Golden Bowl (also known as La coupe d'or), Lions Gate Films, 2000.

Lord Hallsham, From Hell, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001.

Monsieur Bassenge, The Affair of the Necklace, Warner Bros., 2001.

Bartholemew Gray, Still Life (short), 2005.

United States ambassador, The Situation, Shadow Distribution, 2006.

Television Appearances; Series:

Various roles, The Last Machine, BBC, 1995.

Forstater, The Vanishing Man, ITV, 1998.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Chubinov, The Birds Fall Down, BBC, 1978.

Main, Spyship, BBC, 1983.

Basil Plante, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, NBC, 1987.

Roberts, Scarlett, CBS, 1994.

Vizir, Joseph (also known as The Bible: Joseph, Die Bibel: Josef, and Joseph in Egypt), TNT, 1995.

Chief physician, Merlin, NBC, 1998.

Arthur Quigley, Cambridge Spies, BBC, 2003.

Television Appearances; Movies:

A Misfortune, BBC, 1973.

Will Nugent, Sharpe's Gold, 1995.

Forstater, The Vanishing Man, 1996.

Simeon Landor, Dalziel and Pascoe: An Advancement of Learning (also known as Dalziel and Pascoe), BBC and Arts and Entertainment, 1996.

Frogface footman, Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice im Wunderland), BBC, then ABC, 1999.

The priest, Don Quixote, TNT, 2000.

Butler Simpson, Bertie and Elizabeth, ITV1 and PBS, 2002.

Also appeared in The Death of Socrates, BBC.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Eric Colston, Memento Mori, BBC, then PBS, 1992.

Sigmund Freud, The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C. S. Lewis, PBS, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"The Return to Imray," The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling, BBC, 1964.

Knave of Hearts, "Alice in Wonderland," The Wednesday Play, BBC, 1966.

Kiril, Glagolyev's son, "Platonov," Play of the Month, BBC, 1971.

Trevor, "Thank You Very Much," Play for Today, BBC1, 1971.

West, "None of Your Business," Callan, ITV, 1972.

George Fitzwilliam, "The Secret of the Foxhunter," The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, 1973.

Doran, "Doran's Box," Play for Today, BBC1, 1976.

Kurt, "Vienna, November 1908," The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, 1993.

Various roles, The Last Machine, 1995.

Simeon Landor, "An Advancement of Learning," Dalziel and Pascoe, BBC, 1996.

Bishop of Norfolk, "Innocency of Life," Kavanaugh QC, ITV, 1998.

The registrar, "The One After Ross Says Rachel," Friends, NBC, 1998.

The registrar, "The One with Ross's Wedding: Part 2," Friends, NBC, 1998.

Michael Durban, "For Love nor Money," Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, BBC1, 1998.

Leonard Pike, "Strangler's Wood," Midsomer Murders, 1999.

Accusator Nigidius, "The Spoils," Rome, BBC, 2005.

Headley Madrigal, "A Picture of Innocence," Midsomer Murders, ITV and Arts and Entertainment, 2007.

Stage Appearances:

Thane, Macbeth, Old Vic Company, Dublin, Ireland, 1960.

Tom Perry, The Tower, Hampstead Theatre Club, London, 1964.

Alexeyev, Oblomov, Lyric Theatre, London, 1964, retitled Son of Oblomov, Comedy Theatre, London, 1964.

Title role, Benito Cereno, Mermaid Theatre, London, 1967.

Prince Arthur, Early Morning, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1968.

Feste, Twelfth Night, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, England, c. 1968-70.

Banquo, Macbeth, Nottingham Playhouse, c. 1968-70.

Konstantin, The Seagull, Nottingham Playhouse, c. 1968-70.

Dinsdale, The Ruling Class, Nottingham Playhouse, c. 1968-70.

Edgar, King Lear, Nottingham Playhouse, c. 1968-70.

Prince Myshkin, The Idiot, Nottingham Playhouse, c. 1968-70.

Title role, The Silence of St. Just, Gardener Centre, Brighton, England, 1971.

Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Liverpool, England, 1972.

Konstantin, The Seagull, Chichester Festival, Chichester, England, 1973.

Major Tarver, Dandy Dick, Chichester Festival, 1973.

Ivan, Notes from the Underground, Open Space Theatre, London, 1973.

Oswald, Ghosts, Greenwich Theatre, London, 1974.

Konstantin, The Seagull, Greenwich Theatre, 1974.

Hamlet, Greenwich Theatre, 1974.

Axel, Comrades, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1974.

Peters, The Beast, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1974.

Christian Maske, The Snob, Open Space Theatre, 1974.

George Tesman, Hedda Gabler, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1975.

Toozenbach, Three Sisters, Cambridge Theatre, London, 1976.

The friend, Stevie, Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1977.

Philip, News, Soho Poly, 1977.

Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, England, 1978.

Dolokbov, War and Peace, Haymarket Theatre, 1978.

Cain, Abel and Cain, Haymarket Theatre, 1978.

Jacques, As You Like It, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Bristol, England, 1978.

The cardinal, The Duchess of Malfi, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, England, 1978.

Alceste, The Misanthrope, Birmingham Repertory, 1979.

Ferdinando, Country Life, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, 1979, then Lyric Theatre, 1980.

Polonius, Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, London, then Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1995.

Chere Maitre, Almeida Theatre, 1996, then New York, 1997, 1998, then London, 1999.

Duke of York, Richard II, Old Vic Theatre, London, 2005.

Also appeared as Edgar, King Lear, Old Vic Theatre, London; in The Red Noses and The Desert Air, both Royal Shakespeare Company.

Major Tours:

Thane, Macbeth, Russian and Polish cities, 1961.

George Tesman, Hedda Gabler, Royal Shakespeare Company, Canadian, American, and Australian cities, 1975.

Stage Director:

Stoop, Soho Poly, 1978.

Siblings, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 1989.

Bajazet, Almeida Theatre, New York City, 1990.

Ken in Smoking with Lulu, W Yorks Playhouse, 2000, then Soho Theatre, New York City, 2002.

Arthur in Camera Obscura, Almeida Theatre, 2002.

WRITINGS

Translator:

(With T. Alexander) Klus Mann, Siblings: The Children's Story, 1992.

Other:

Contributed to various periodicals, including Vogue, Harpers, Vanity Fair, and Interview.