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Peter Firth

Peter Firth
Peter Firth
Born: Oct 27, 1953 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Occupation: Actor
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Thriller
Career Highlights: Tess, Equus, An Awfully Big Adventure
First Major Screen Credit: Aces High (1976)
8 Videos for Peter Firth
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) Shadowlands (1993) Lifeforce (1985)
Chill Factor (1999) Prisoner of Honor (1991) Equus (1977)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1994) The Hunt for Red October (1990)
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Biography:

A child actor on British television from 1968, Peter Firth has been in films since 1973's Brother Sun, Sister Moon. Full theatrical stardom came Firth's way in 1973 with his disturbingly convincing portrayal of horse-mutilating stable boy Arthur Strang in Peter Shaffer's Equus.

He repeated this role in the 1977 film version, earning a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. He went on to such film characterizations as the title character in Joseph Andrews (1977), Angel Clare in Tess (1977) and Ivan Patten in Hunt for Red October (1990). His credits in the past decade have included Shadowlands (1993), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), and a voiceover in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers Down Under (1990).

Peter Firth returned to British TV in 1994 as star of the weekly Heartbeat. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.