Peter Porteous

Peter Porteous was born on Jul 07, 1930 in UK. Peter Porteous's big-screen debut came with Life in Emergency Ward 10 directed by Robert Day in 1959, strarring Bill (uncredited). Peter Porteous is known for The Year of the French directed by Michael Garvey, Jean-Claude Drouot stars as Le général Humbert and Keith Buckley as Samuel Cooper. The upcoming new movie Peter Porteous plays is The Living Daylights which will be released on Jul 31, 1987.

Peter Porteous trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama which, when he was there in the 1950s, occupied premises in the Royal Albert Hall. He made his London theatre debut in 1960 at the Aldwich Theatre in Brouhaha, playing opposite Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries and Leo McKern. He played a pygmy, blacked up and wearing a kilt! He played numerous Shakespearian roles and major roles in plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Millar, Albert Camus,Harold Pinter and Tom Murphy. His professional film life started when he worked for the great German film director, Otto Preminger, in the film St Joan with Jean Seburg. Sadly, Peter died on 12th August 2005 at Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, the Retirement /Nursing Home for actors run by the Actors' Benevolent Fund.