Peter Purves

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Peter Purves (2009)

Peter Purves (born February 10, 1939 in Preston , Lancashire ) is a British actor and presenter .

life and career

Purve's father was a tailor. He later ran a hotel. From the age of ten, Purves went to boarding school. He did not attend a theater school, but learned to act in a repertoire theater group in the north of England , in Barrow-in-Furness . He got his first paid acting job at the age of 18. He played a sheriff in the play The Rainmaker . From 1966 to 1967 Purves played the role of Steven Taylor in the British television series Doctor Who . Steven Taylor was a companion of the first doctor ( William Hartnell ). From 1967 to 1978 Peter Purves presented the children's program Blue Peter . He then moderated other programs such as Stopwatch and the Kick Start motorcycle show . Since 2007 he has given his former Doctor Who character Steven Taylor the voice again. He speaks of Big Finish in the Doctor Who radio plays . Purves has also directed more than thirty pantomime pieces.

Private life

In the summer of 1962, Purves married screenwriter Gilly Fraser. In 1964 the couple had a son, and in 1969 they adopted a little Chinese girl from Macau . During his marriage, Purves had affairs with other well-known actors such as Jean Marsh , Adrienne Hill and his Blue Peter co-host Valerie Singleton . Fraser and Purves later split. In 1978 Purves played Baron Hardup ​​in the play Cinderella. There he met his second wife, actress Kathryn Evans, who played Dandini. The couple now live in Suffolk with a total of six dogs.

Filmography

As an actor (selection)

  • 1964: The Villains (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1964–1965: Task Force Police (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1965: Luther
  • 1965–1966: Doctor Who (TV series, 46 episodes)
  • 1987: EastEnders (TV series, 2 episodes)

As moderator (selection)

  • 1967-1978: Blue Peter
  • 1974-1997: Record Breakers
  • 1976-2008: Crufts Dog Show
  • 1978-1981: Stopwatch
  • 1979–1991: Kick Start

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Yes, Valerie was my lover. And Lesley? Er, let's just say she was gorgeous: Peter Purves dishes the Blue Peter dirt. February 7, 2009, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Peter Purves (2006). August 7, 2009, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Donna Ferguson: Miserly BBC never paid what it should have - but I did once buy a Bentley: Peter Purves says Blue Peter was no money – spinner. August 22, 2015, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Doctor Who companions: where are they now? October 15, 2015, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Tony Padman: Whatever happened to Blue Peter's Peter Purves? March 7, 2016, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Peter Purves: PETER PURVES: Affairs, drugs and a stalker - how I put the blue in Blue Peter. February 12, 2009, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  7. ^ Neil Midgley: Life on Blue Peter: sex, drugs and toilet rolls. October 9, 2008, accessed March 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Purves, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , Lancashire , United Kingdom