Frederick Peisley

Frederick Walter James Peisley (6 December 1904 – 22 March 1975) was a British stage, film and television actor and theatre director whose career spanned five decades. He is known for The Secret of the Loch (1934), Gentlemen's Agreement (1935) and Murder at the Cabaret (1936). His later career was mostly in television.

Fred Peisley was born in Finchley in London in 1904, the son of Annie Emily and Walter John Peisley, a baker.

Early stage appearances included The Mental Athletes at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith (1922); Jim Hawkins in matinee performances of Treasure Island at the Strand Theatre (1923), and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1924). In 1925 he appeared in "a dull and stodgy production" of Dryden's The Assignation at the Aldwych Theatre, in the same year touring in the musical romance Derby Day. In 1927 he appeared alongside John Gielgud in The Great God Brown at the Strand Theatre, while in 1928 he played Taya in Contraband at the Q Theatre. In 1936 he appeared in Ivor Novello's Careless Rapture at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and in 1938 he acted in Heaven and Charing Cross at the St Martin's Theatre and in The Ascent of F6 at The Old Vic.

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