Peter Collingwood

Peter Collingwood (born in 1920) (Kent, England) is a British and Australian television actor who appeared in a number of British and Australian films and miniseries.

Biography

Peter Collingwood enrolled in the Embassy School of Acting at the Embassy Theatre (London) in 1937. He served in World War II and in the late 1940s–1950s worked for a number of regional repertory companies in England.

Peter & his family moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he worked at the Perth Playhouse (1961–1963). The family returned to England for a short time, then emigrated to Australia before settling in Balmain, New South Wales, in 1967.^[1] Has appeared in numerous serial roles including Home and Away and Always Greener.

Acting roles include Lord John Russell in Edward the Seventh and Mr. Dunkley in Are You Being Served?.

Selected filmography

Appearances in movies

• Coroner, River Beat (1954)
• Colonel Fitzhubert, Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975

Appearances in miniseries

• Governor Phillip, The Timeless Land, ABC Television (Australia), 1980
• Governor, Under Capricorn, 1982
• Tun Abdul Razak, The Dismissal, 1983
• Chris Fitzgerald, A Difficult Woman, ABC Television (Australia), 1998

Notes and references

External links

• Peter Collingwood at the Internet Movie Database