Edward Petherbridge

Edward Petherbridge is an English actor, writer and artist. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayerss novels, and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, he was a memorable Newman Noggs in the companys adaptation of Dickenss The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Petherbridge was born in West Bowling, Bradford, the younger son of William and Hannah Petherbridge. He attended Grange Grammar School, Bradford, where his favourite subjects were Art and English Literature. The composer Herbert Howells wrote of Petherbridges boy soprano rendition, at the Wharfedale Festival, of Schuberts Trout A fine young musician with a fine gift of word delivery. Petherbridge trained as an actor at Esme Churchs Northern Theatre School. At the time of national service in the 1950s, he was a conscientious objector. He made his professional stage debut at the Ludlow Festival in 1956, playing Gaveston in Marlowes Edward II. His first London appearance was at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park in 1962 as Demetrius in A Midsummer Nights Dream.

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