Bob Peck | |
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Born |
Robert Peck 23 August 1945 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Died | 4 April 1999 London, England |
(aged 53)
Cause of death | Cancer |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1972–1999 |
Spouse(s) | Jill Baker (1982–1999) (His death) |
Children | Hannah Peck, George Peck and Milly Peck |
Awards |
BAFTA TV Award Best Actor 1986 Edge of Darkness |
Robert "Bob" Peck (23 August 1945 – 4 April 1999) was an English stage, television and film actor who was best known for his roles as Ronald Craven in the television serial Edge of Darkness and as gamekeeper Robert Muldoon in the film Jurassic Park.
Robert Peck was born into a working-class family in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 23 August 1945. He went to Leeds Modern School in Lawnswood. Peck was educated at the Leeds College of Art where he received a Diploma in Art and Design.
Before breaking into film and television work, Peck was a regular actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden and Judi Dench. Between 1979–80 he played Iago alongside Donald Sinden in Othello, in both Stratford and London. He made a memorable appearance on stage in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, originally by Charles Dickens, playing two characters: the boisterous Yorkshireman John Browdie and the predatory Sir Mulberry Hawk, and repeated these roles on Broadway and when the production was filmed for television in 1981. He played the character of Macduff in the Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1976 stage and television versions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and re-appeared in another production of Macbeth in 1982. According to Peck's fellow Royal Shakespeare Theatre performer and veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen, Peck is the actor he considers he "learned the most from".