Peter Vaughan

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Peter Vaughan (* 4. April 1923 in whom , Shropshire , England as Peter Ewart ohms ; † 6. December 2016 in Mannings Heath , West Sussex ) was a British actor .

Life

Peter Vaughan grew up in Staffordshire . After finishing school, he played in local theaters before doing his military service. During World War II , Vaughan served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals in Normandy , Belgium and the Far East. At the end of the war he took part in the liberation of the Changi POW camp in Singapore .

From the mid-1950s until shortly before his death, Vaughan worked as a character actor in more than 220 film and television productions. In his early career, he was particularly often police officers, including in Ralph Thomas ' The 39 Steps (1959) and in the horror film The Village of the Damned (1960). He played his first major role in 1962 in the television adaptation of Oliver Twist based on Charles Dickens , in which he portrayed the criminal Bill Sikes . In 1967 Vaughan played the second leading role in The Man on the Wire alongside Frank Sinatra , but subsequently did not have a Hollywood career. The following year he played the pirate Long John Silver in the television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island .

In the 1970s Vaughan played mainly in television productions, but from 1980 he began to appear again increasingly in larger feature film productions such as Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) by Terry Gilliam, as well as in literary adaptations such as The Beloved of the French Lieutenant (1981), Les Misérables (1998) and What was left of the day (1993), where he played the dying father of Anthony Hopkins . From 2011 to 2015, Vaughan appeared in eleven episodes in the award-winning fantasy series Game of Thrones as Maester of the Night's Watch, Aemon Targaryen . This was also the last role of the actor.

His first marriage to actress Billie Whitelaw was divorced in 1966. Vaughan's second marriage was to actress Lillias Walker . Their son David (* 1967) emerged from this marriage. Peter Vaughan died on December 6, 2016 at the age of 93.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1997: BAFTA nomination for Our Friends in the North

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actor Peter Vaughan, of 'Game of Thrones' and 'Porridge', dead at 93 . ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BNO News, December 6, 2016, accessed December 6, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bnonews.com
  2. ^ Royal Corps of Signals . The London Gazette , July 2, 1943, Supplement No. 36080, p. 3050, accessed December 6, 2016 (pdf, 731 kB, English).
  3. ↑ Obituary: Peter Vaughan. British Broadcasting Corporation , December 6, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ James White: Actor Peter Vaughan dies, aged 93 . Empire , December 6th; accessed December 7th, 2016.
  5. ↑ Michael Coveney: Peter Vaughan obituary . In: The Guardian . December 6, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 4, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Vaughan, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohm, Peter Ewart (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Whom , Shropshire , England
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2016
Place of death Mannings Heath , West Sussex