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Peck as Ronald Craven in Edge of Darkness |
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| Born | Robert Peck 23 August 1945 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 4 April 1999 (aged 53) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1972–1998 |
| Spouse | Jill Baker (1982-1999) (His death) |
Bob Peck (23 August 1945 – 4 April 1999) was an English stage, television and film actor.
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He went to Leeds Modern School in Lawnswood. Peck was educated at the Leeds College of Art where he received a Diploma in Art and Design.
Before breaking into film and television work, he was a regular actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden and Judi Dench, and appeared on stage (and later on television) in the RSC production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as "John Browdie" and "Sir Mulberry Hawk", and as Macduff in Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1976 stage and 1978 television production of Macbeth. He also appeared in a production of Macbeth in 1982. According to McKellen, Peck is the actor he considers he "learned the most from".[1]
Peck's first television role was in 1972 on the BBC's Thirty-Minute Theatre anthology series in the episode "Bypass". He went on to appear in various other television productions such as Z-Cars and Play For Today, but he was probably best known to British audiences for his role as Ronald Craven in the acclaimed 1985 BBC drama serial Edge of Darkness. The role won him the "Best Actor" award at that year's BAFTA Awards and helped to launch his television and film career. He later became familiar to audiences worldwide for his film roles, including Jurassic Park (as park game warden Robert Muldoon), and Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997). Prior to these, he had also played an escaped android in the post apocalyptic film Slipstream (1989), which also starred Mark Hamill and Bill Paxton, and had a small role in the 1990 film Lord of the Flies.
Peck's other television work included Simon Gray's After Pilkington (1987) , "Jim Henson's The Storyteller (in the episode "The Soldier and Death") in 1988, Natural Lies (1991), An Ungentlemanly Act (1992), The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993) and The Scold's Bridle (1998). Peck also worked in radio, and starred in a BBC Radio adaptation of J. B. Priestley's classic play An Inspector Calls.
Peck speaks the words of Beethoven in the Naxos 4-CD "Life and Works of Beethoven"
Peck died of cancer on 4 April 1999 in London[2] at the age of 53 after fighting the illness for several years. He is survived by his wife Jill and children Hannah, George and Milly.
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