E < > Earwig Easter Richard Easton Eastward Ho! David Edgar Educating Rita Edward II Edward III Rob Edwards Peter Egan Eh? Jennifer Ehle Elective Affinities Electra Elgar's Rondo T.S. Eliot Michael Elliott Chris Ellis Embers The Empire Builders Endgame Enemies Les enfants du paradis Susan Engel Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act Eric LaRue Escurial George Etherege Euripides Daniel Evans Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Everyman Every Man in His Humour Everything in the Garden Exiles Expeditions		Peter Egan Peter Egan flirted with Penelope Wilton over four series of Ever Decreasing Circles (BBC, 1984-87), played Henry Simcox in Paradise Postponed (1986) and the haunted Pym in John le Carré's The Perfect Spy (BBC, 1987). If he is best known for these and other television roles, he has given some memorable performances on the stage, in the West End, at Chichester and at the RSC. Also a theatre director, his credits include Uncle Vanya for Renaissance (Tour and Lyric Hammersmith, 1991). Egan's television career began when he played a London gangster, a handsome killer, in the controversial series Big Breadwinner Hogg (1969), and continued in the 70s with appearances in Elizabeth R (1971) as Southampton; in Edward Woodward's Callan (1974); and in Lillie (1978) as Oscar Wilde. He first joined the RSC in 1970 and played Osric in the Alan Howard Hamlet (Trevor Nunn, RST), Froth in Measure for Measure (John Barton, RST), and, most memorably, Valentine in Robin Phillips's modern-dress production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RST, Aldwych, 1971). Almost twenty years elapsed before he re-joined the Company to play Tsyganov in Gorky's Barbarians (David Jones, Barbican, 1990). Then, in 1997/98, Egan gave his best RSC performance, and one of the best of his career, as the ageing Casanova, exhausted and at the end of his tether, in Tennessee Williams's Camino Real (Steven Pimlott, Swan and Young Vic). Other highlights of Egan's stage career include Stanhope in Journey's End (West End, 1972); Astrov in the already mentioned Uncle Vanya; Jimmy Porter in Osborne's Déjà Vu (Tony Palmer, Comedy Theatre, 1992); the director in Michael Frayn's Noises Off (Jeremy Sams, NT Lyttelton, 2000, West End, 2001-02); and Tom in The Secret Rapture (Guy Retallack, Lyric, 2003-04). Film roles include Cantrip in The Hireling (Joseph Losey, 1973), the Duke of Sutherland in Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson, 1981), and Lord Walton in Bean (Mel Smith, 1997).	Actor/Director, b. London, 1946 Education: RADA RSC: Joined 1970 Seasons: 1970-71 (Strat. and Lond.); 1990 (Lond.); 1996/97 (Strat.)-97/98 (Lond.)
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