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Peter Egan (born 28 September 1946) is a British actor known for playing smooth neighbour Paul Ryman in 1980s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles. He is married to retired actress Myra Frances. Egan was born in London, England, the son of Doris (née Pick) and Michael Thomas Egan, who is of Irish descent. He was educated at St. George's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School, Maida Vale. He also attended The London Oratory School Peter Egan's first television role was as the sex-and-cinema-obsessed Seth Starkadder in the BBC serialisation of Cold Comfort Farm in 1968. In 1969 he had come to... MORE

Peter Egan (born 28 September 1946) is a British actor known for playing smooth neighbour Paul Ryman in 1980s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles. He is married to retired actress Myra Frances. Egan was born in London, England, the son of Doris (née Pick) and Michael Thomas Egan, who is of Irish descent. He was educated at St. George's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School, Maida Vale. He also attended The London Oratory School Peter Egan's first television role was as the sex-and-cinema-obsessed Seth Starkadder in the BBC serialisation of Cold Comfort Farm in 1968. In 1969 he had come to notoriety as the acid-throwing gangster Hogarth in the controversial Granada TV series Big Breadwinner Hog. Later he had other starring roles as John Everett Millais in the 1975 BBC serial The Love School, and as Oscar Wilde in 1978 in the serial Lillie, starring Francesca Annis as Lillie Langtry; as "Magnus Pym" in the BBC dramatisation of John le Carré's A Perfect Spy and another BBC sitcom Joint Account. He played the title-role as the future King George IV in the BBC series Prince Regent (1979), and was a sinister immortal Knight Templar in Michael J. Bird's BBC series The Dark Side of the Sun LESS