Peter John Coke (/kʊk/ "cook"; 3 April 1913 – 30 July 2008) was an English actor, playwright and artist.

Coke was educated at Stowe School[3] and later lived with his maternal grandmother in Menton, France.

Coke made his film debut in the comedy Missing, Believed Married (1937) and later starred in The Return of Carol Deane and Keep Smiling (both 1938).

[6] In 1954, he became the seventh actor to take the role of Paul Temple in the long-running radio drama series written by Francis Durbridge.

[8] Between 1958 and 1988, he wrote eleven plays, including his best-known, Breath of Spring, which was successful both in the West End and on Broadway.

In April 2006, he opened the Peter Coke Shell Gallery in part of the recently restored fishing sheds on West Cliff at Sheringham in north Norfolk.