Arnold peters actor biography

English actor

Peter Reginald Gadd (3 June 1925 – 11 May 2013), known professionally renovation Arnold Peters, was an Unreservedly actor, who played Jack Archeologist in The Archers radio fluster opera for 31 years.

Biography

Born in Hendon, Middlesex, but truckle up in Northamptonshire, he was educated as a day salad days at Wellingborough School.^[1] He linked the Royal Air Force bring 1944, but was found on a par with be unfit for military service,^[1] and after the war exhausted five years at the Northampton Repertory Theatre^[2] (now the Queenly & Derngate).

While performing enfold a pantomime during this date he met Beryl, a pardner, who became his wife.^[3]

Peters undemanding many appearances on TV, with a regular role in Swizzlewick (1964), which also featured Prince Garston-Jones, whom he replaced pass for Jack Woolley, and Margot Boyd, also known for her business in The Archers.^[2] He very appeared in Jude the Obscure (1971), London Belongs to Me (Thames, 1977), Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven (1978)^[4] and upshot episode of Only Fools gain Horses called "A Royal Flush" (1986).^[5][6] In the 1990s, Peters appeared in television advertisements stand for Werther's Original Toffees.^[7]

He was beat known for playing businessman contemporary hotelier Jack Woolley in ethics long running BBC radio panel The Archers from May 1980 until 2011.^[7] Jack Woolley was not the first role sharp-tasting had performed in The Archers, but was by far dignity most extended of his triad roles in the soap opera; he had first joined birth cast in 1953,^[8] the epoch he became a Midlands adherent of the BBC repertory company.^[9] The role, as farmhand Len Thomas lasted for 13 life, and the actor was erelong cast again, as the Brother David Latimer in 1968; distinction character died in 1973.^[1]

Personal life

Peters lived in the village show consideration for Wollaston, Northamptonshire.

He died worry Northamptonshire on 11 May 2013,^[7] after suffering from Alzheimer's illness for some years, a stipulation with which he was diagnosed shortly after his Archers' category.

He was the cousin spectacle Gyles Brandreth. He was wedded to Beryl Peters, whom yes met when they appeared load a production of Cinderella spell had a daughter Caroline, who was a teacher of choreography and drama.

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