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Edward Petherbridge (born on 3 August 1936 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actor. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in several screen adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels. At the time of national service in the 1950s, Petherbridge was a conscientious objector. A stalwart member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1960s, he created the role of Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, he was a memorable Newman Noggs in the company's adaptation of Dickens' The... MORE

Edward Petherbridge (born on 3 August 1936 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actor. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in several screen adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels. At the time of national service in the 1950s, Petherbridge was a conscientious objector. A stalwart member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1960s, he created the role of Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, he was a memorable Newman Noggs in the company's adaptation of Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He has spent extended periods with both national companies since then, where he occasionally collaborated with Ian McKellen. In the mid-1980s, he and McKellen formed an actor-centred troupe within the National Theatre; their first productions were Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Edward Petherbridge first came to the attention of American audiences in the already mentioned play version of The Life And Times Of Nicholas Nickleby. First televised in 1982, this lengthy adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel had been performed LESS