Peter Madden (9 August 1904 – 24 February 1976) was a British actor who was born in Ipoh in the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia).

[2] He appeared as the innkeeper Bruno in The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) and as the stern Police Chief in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967).

In the cult television series The Prisoner (1967), Madden, uncredited, plays the sinister undertaker in the opening sequence.

He played Inspector Lestrade opposite Douglas Wilmer’s Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 BBC series.

[citation needed] Madden died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm at his home in Felpham in 1976.