| Peter Egan | |
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| Born | 28 September 1946 London, England |
Peter Egan (born 28 September 1946) is a British actor known for playing smooth neighbour Paul Ryman in 1980s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles. He is married to retired actress Myra Frances.
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Egan was born in London, England, the son of Doris (née Pick) and Michael Thomas Egan, who is of Irish descent.[1] He was educated at St. George's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School, Maida Vale. He also attended The London Oratory School
Peter Egan's first television role was as the sex-and-cinema-obsessed Seth Starkadder in the BBC serialisation of Cold Comfort Farm in 1968. In 1969 he had come to notoriety as the acid-throwing gangster Hogarth in the controversial Granada TV series Big Breadwinner Hog. Later he had other starring roles as John Everett Millais in the 1975 BBC serial The Love School, and as Oscar Wilde in 1978 in the serial Lillie, starring Francesca Annis as Lillie Langtry; as "Magnus Pym" in the BBC dramatisation of John le Carré's A Perfect Spy and another BBC sitcom Joint Account.
He played the title-role as the future King George IV in the BBC series Prince Regent (1979), and was a sinister immortal Knight Templar in Michael J. Bird's BBC series The Dark Side of the Sun (1983). Egan also played Fothergill in the TV series Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983). In 1986 he had a major role in the TV series Paradise Postponed. He also guest starred in an episode of A Touch of Frost ("Private Lives") in 1999.
Other roles include Michael Cochrane in the 1998 programme The Ambassador, and on film as the suave secret agent Meres in TV spin-off Callan (1974), & the Duke of Sutherland in Chariots of Fire (1981), Academy Award Best Picture winner. In 2007 he took the role of Victor in the film Death at a Funeral. In 2009 Egan toured as lead Sir Hugo Latymer in Nikolai Foster's revival of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight.[2] He is also the narrator for the US and UK versions of Forza Motorsport 3 and its sequel, Forza Motorsport 4.
Away from acting, Egan had the honour of opening the Marks & Spencer department store at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre on 23 October 1990, the final store to open in one of the world's largest shopping centres.