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.

"[9] The year 1949 saw Peisley portraying "a remarkably lifelike Swinburne" at the Royal Opera House in a controversial production of Salome, directed by Peter Brook and with costumes and sets designed by Salvador Dalí.

[12][13] In 1953 he appeared as Cribb in The Drunkard at the Irving Theatre in London;[14] at the Salisbury Playhouse he played Man Friday in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe (1955); John of Gaunt in Richard II (1955), with Gerald Flood in the title role;[15] Mr Charles Dumby in Lady Windermere's Fan (1956); in Book of the Month (1956) with Leonard Rossiter, and General Mackenzie in Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers (1957).

[3][16] Film appearances included Peter Farrar in Frail Women (1932), Kenneth Bailey in The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934), Jimmy Andrews in The Secret of the Loch (1934), Jackson in Freedom of the Seas (1934), Guy Carfax in Gentlemen's Agreement (1935), Jimmie in Murder at the Cabaret (1936), Fred Coggins in Lonely Road (1936), Michael Elwood in Full Speed Ahead (1936), 2nd Soldier in The Gentle Sex (1943), Lewis in The Angry Silence (1960), Mossie in The Marked One (1963), Cottrell in Hide and Seek (1964) and Tramp in Subterfuge (1968).

[17][18] Television roles included Landlord in Tell It to the Marines (1959), Edward Cathcart in Emergency – Ward 10 (1960), Albert Fisher in Harpers West One (1961), Herbert Keene in Our House (1960–1962), Arthur Berry in Comedy Playhouse (1963), Richard Marsham in The Plane Makers (1964), Major Harris/Ferapona/Jack Tubbs in ITV Play of the Week (1959–64), Brailsford in Love Story (1964), Henry Farthing in Dixon of Dock Green (1964), Mr. Clayton in Thursday Theatre (1965), Town Clerk in The Newcomers (1965), Dr. Winter in Danger Man (1965), Ryan/Fenton/Potty Smith/Tabby Marlowe/Alf Water in No Hiding Place (1962–65), Tiny Bray in Gideon's Way (1966), Mr. Loder in All Gas and Gaiters (1969), Grunner in The Avengers (1969), Johnson in Softly, Softly (1969), Earl of Shaftesbury in The First Churchills (1969), Beckett/Fred Copley/Mr.