Peter Madden (actor)

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Peter Madden (9 August 1904 - 24 February 1976) was a British actor who was born in Kuala Lumpur in Malaya.

Maddem was a character actor who made several notable appearances in Hammer films, and who was a familiar face in British film and television during the 1950s and 1960s.

He appeared as the innkeeper, Bruno, in The Kiss of the Vampire (1962) and as the stern Police Chief in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967). His last Hammer role was brief, as a coach driver in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973).

Madden's other film roles included The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1964) and Dr Zhivago (1965). On television he was seen in Danger Man, Z Cars, The Avengers and The Champions, and also played Inspector Lestrade opposite Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes in the 1968 BBC series.

[edit] External references

• Madden on Internet Movie Database
• Madden on The Dictionary of Hammer Horror