Peter Jeffrey
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Peter Jeffrey (18 April 1929 – 25 December 1999) was a British actor with many roles in television and film.
Jeffrey was born in Bristol, and became a very familiar face to British television viewers. Television roles include his 1978 guest appearance in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as Count Grendel in the serial The Androids of Tara and his 1967 appearance as the Colony Pilot in The Macra Terror. It is reputed he had been offered the role of the lead character in the show by Innes Lloyd in 1966, but turned it down; Patrick Troughton was cast instead. In the BBC blockbuster Elizabeth R, he played King Philip II of Spain.
Film roles include The Horsemen (1971), Kidnapped (1971), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), O Lucky Man! (1973), The Odessa File (1974), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).
He died in 1999 from prostate cancer.
