Kim Peacock

Kim Peacock ( born March 24, 1901 in Watford, Hertfordshire, † December 26, 1966 in Emsworth, Hampshire ) was a British actor, radio speaker and screenwriter.

Life

Peacock was the son of football player Charlie Peacock, who played at the club Watford Rovers. Later, his father owns the local newspaper, founded in 1863, the Watford Observer was.

His acting career began in 1927, possibly in the movie My Lord the Chauffeur. In 1936 he had a small supporting role in the famous sci-fi film is what come ( Director: William Cameron Menzies ), which originated from a story by HG Wells, and in the Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman and Ralph Richardson played the lead roles. In the movie Midnight at Madame Tussaud's, which was produced in the same year under the direction of George Pearson, he worked not only as a performer but also as a screenwriter. Between 1940 and 1951 no film appearances by Peacock are detected. In 1952 he joined again before the camera, but this time almost always at the newly created medium of television. Here he was, until 1966, was the year of his death worked. Most recently, he played in an episode of the miniseries The Three Musketeers a port director. Here played under director Peter Hammond, among others Jeremy Brett, who had assumed the role of D' Artagnan.

Acquaintance he had probably been more than radio speaker, especially in the role of the London writer and amateur detective Paul Temple. In the since 1938 broadcast by the BBC series of the English author Francis Durbridge, he took over in 1946, the title role in Howard Marion Crawford. By 1953, he was heard in a total of ten mini-series on the side of Marjorie Westbury. Thereafter, until the series end Peter Coke said the role of the title character. Meanwhile, the surviving radio plays this series of the BBC Radio 4 Extra have been repeatedly and also released on CD.

Filmography

Radio plays as Paul Temple

Literature

The figures stem exclusively from WP articles, mainly the English contribution to Kim Peacock and Paul Temple articles, with Stand of 4 May 2012.