Peter bowles british actor

He reprised the role of Mr DeVere during an hour long special, in which the two charters celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, and he and his co-star were lifelong friends. Mr Bowles built a reputation for being a suave leading man, often with a trademark moustache and wooing ladies. He was still working until before the pandemic, starring in a stage production of The Exorcist aged 81, declaring proudly at the time he was the 'oldest man to star above the title in British theatrical history'.

Handsome and always impeccably dressed, even in his later years, he put his good health down to 20 minutes of weight-training every day into his 80s. But away from stage and screen his great love was his wife Sue, who he met in the theatre in the late s when she was a chorus girl. They married in , living together in Barnes, south-west London.

Mr and Mrs Bowles were married for 61 years and 11 months, with three children together - two sons and a daughter - and six grandchildren. He said in 'Love love love love love love!. That's what makes it work. No competition, no ups and downs — I've never looked at anyone else. He also once revealed how he had stormed out of a party with Susan in a 'huff' after being introduced as a 'TV actor'.

Legendary director Sir Peter Hall described him as 'the greatest speaker of verse in the English language' and away from work drove a Rolls-Royce, a succession of Porsches, smoked heavily and often went drinking with his actor friends, but admitted in 'They're all dead now'. To The Manor Born star Peter Bowles, pictured aged 80, has died from cancer at the age of 85, his agent has said today.

He was married to his wife Sue for more than 60 years. They met in the theatre when she was a chorus girl. His TV debut in was memorable for him in an unexpected and gruesome way - during the live transmission of the play Underground , one of the other actors, Gareth Jones, died suddenly of a heart-attack whilst off-camera. His father was a chauffeur and his mother a nanny.

Peter bowles british actor

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