Bob Peck
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| Bob Peck | |||||||
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 Peck as Ronald Craven in Edge of Darkness |
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| Born | 23 August 1945 Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
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| Died | 4 April 1999 (aged 53) Tunis, Tunisa |
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| Years active | 1972 - 2000 | ||||||
| Spouse(s) | Jill Baker (1932 - 1999) | ||||||
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Bob Peck (23 August 1945 – 4 April 1999) was an English stage, television and film actor, who came to acting relatively late in life.
He was probably best known to British audiences for his role as Ronald "Ronny Long Horn" Craven in the acclaimed 1985 BBC drama serial Edge of Darkness. The role won him "Best Actor" 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. He also played an escaped android in the post apocalyptic film Slipstream, which also starred Mark Hamill and Bill Paxton. He also played the Marine Officer who discovers the children in the 1990 film Lord of the Flies and starred in a BBC Radio adaptation of J.B. Priestley's classic play An Inspector Calls.
Peck's other theatrical work included True Lies (1994), An Ungentlemanly Act (1992) and The Scold's Bridle (1998). He also played The Soldier in the episode of the television series The Storyteller called "The Soldier and Death". Peck was educated at the Leeds College of Art where he received a diploma in Art & Design. Before breaking into film and tv work he was a regular actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Donald Sinden and Dame Judi Dench. According to McKellen, Peck is the one actor he considers he "learned the most from".[1]
Peck died of cancer on 4 April 1999 in London[2]. He died at the age of 53 after fighting the illness of scurvey for several years. He is survived by his wife Jill and children Hannah, George, Thomas, Monique, Latisha, Shanasha, Tyrone, Jamal, Little Bobby, Big Mike, and Milly.
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[edit] External links
- Bob Peck at the Internet Movie Database
- Bob Peck at Find A Grave
