Aidan McArdle
Macbeth
Richard McCabe
Colin McCormack
Alec McCowen
Ian McDiarmid
Martin McDonagh
Malcolm McDowell
John McEnery
Peter McEnery
Tom McGrath
Frank McGuinness
Jo McInnes
Ian McKellen
Peter McKintosh
Hilton McRae
Anna Madeley
Madness in Valencia
Dominic Mafham
The Maid's Tragedy
Major Barbara
The Malcontent
Michael Maloney
Malvern Festival
Man and Superman
Man is Man
Tom Mannion
The Man of Mode
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Lesley Manville
Marat/Sade
Tony Marchant
Claire Marchionne
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Christopher Marlowe
The Marquis of Keith
The Marrying of Ann Leete
John Marston
Trevor Martin
Ashley Martin-Davis
Mary, After the Queen
Mary and Lizzie
Brewster Mason
Daniel Massey
Philip Massinger
The Master Builder
Maydays
Measure for Measure
Nancy Meckler
Joe Melia
Leonie Mellinger
Melons
Sam Mendes
Men's Beano
Mephisto
David Mercer
The Merchant of Venice
The Mermaid
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Meteor
Roger Michell
Thomas Middleton
Midnight's Children
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Midwinter
Arthur Miller
Jonathan Miller
Poppy Miller
Joseph Millson
Helen Mirren
Misalliance
A Miserable and Lonely Death
Les Misérables
Misha's Party
Miss Julie
The Mistake
Katie Mitchell
Tim Mitchell
Ariane Mnouchkine
Moby Dick
Molière
Molière (The Cabal of Saintly Hypocrites)
Money
A Month in the Country
Richard Moore
Hattie Morahan
Christopher Morley
Cherry Morris
Clive Morris
David Morrissey
Moscow Gold
Mother Courage
The Mouth Organ
Slawomir Mrozek
Much Ado About Nothing
Peter Mumford
Murder in the Cathedral
Gerard Murphy
The Mysteries
Peter McEnery made his stage debut, aged sixteen, at the Palace Pier Theatre in Brighton (1956). A year later he was working alongside Ralph Richardson in Robert Bolt's Flowering Cherry (Theatre Royal Haymarket). His boyish, pop star good looks were right for the time and he was cast in three major films released in 1960/61—Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame), Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville) and Victim (Basil Dearden). Cinema came to dominate his career, but first he made his mark at the RSC in both classical and modern roles: Laertes in Hamlet (Peter Wood, RST, 1961); Clarence in Richard III (William Gaskill, RST, 1961); Silvius in the Vanessa Redgrave As You Like It (Michael Elliott, RST, 1961); Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Peter Hall, RST, 1961); Johnny Hobnails in Afore Night Come (Clifford Williams, Arts Theatre, 1962, Aldwych, 1964); Philip of France in Christopher Fry's Curtmantle (Stuart Burge, Aldwych, 1962); Patroclus in Troilus and Cressida (Hall, Aldwych, 1962); De Laubardemont in The Devils (Wood, Aldwych, 1962); Ithamore in The Jew of Malta (Williams, RST, 1965); and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice (Williams, RST, 1965). Between RSC seasons he played Rudge in Next Time I'll Sing to You (Criterion, 1963) and Konstantin to Vanessa Redgrave's Nina in The Seagull (Tony Richardson, ESC, Queen's, 1964).
Among the films he made as a leading actor are The Moon Spinners (James Neilson, 1964), in which he starred opposite Hayley Mills; The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966); the Jane Fonda vehicle La Curée (The Game is Over, Roger Vadim, 1966); J'ai tué Raspoutine (1967); Negatives (Peter Medak, 1968); Meglio vedova (1969); Le mur de l'Atlantique (1970); Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970), in which he played Sloane; The Adventures of Gerard (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970), in which he played the title role; Tales That Witness Madness (Freddie Francis, 1973); Le Orme (1974); The Cat and the Canary (1979); Safari (Vadim, 1991); and Le montreur de boxe (Lucky Punch, Dominique Ladoge, 1995).
He re-emerged as a charismatic live performer in the 1970s. He played Harry Winter in The Collaborators (Duchess, 1973), and Trigorin in The Seagull (Lyric, 1975). Back at the RSC, 1977-90, he sought diversity, creating, at one extreme, the murderous Lorenzo, sleek and decadent, in The Lorenzaccio Story (Ron Daniels, TOP, 1977, Warehouse, 1978), and, at the other, a strong, fatalistic Brutus in Julius Caesar (Daniels, RST, 1983, Barbican, 1984). He was outstanding as Orlando in As You Like It (Trevor Nunn, RST, 1977); the imprisoned South Africa journalist in David Edgar's The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (Howard Davies, Warehouse, 1978, TOP, 1979); the title role in Pericles (Daniels, TOP, 1979, Warehouse, 1980); Jerry in Once in a Lifetime (Nunn, Aldwych, 1979); Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors (Adrian Noble, RST, 1983, Barbican, 1984); Urbain Grandier in The Devils (John Barton, Pit, 1984); and Godber in Michael Hastings's A Dream of People (Janet Suzman, Pit, 1990).
Elsewhere, he starred as Edward Gover in Anthony Minghella's Made in Bangkok (Aldwych, 1986); Fredrik in A Little Night Music (Ian Judge, Chichester and Piccadilly, 1989); Torvald in A Doll's House (Annie Castledine) and Robert in Dangerous Corner (Keith Baxter, Minerva, Chichester, 1994); Menelaus in Women of Troy (Annie Castledine, NT Olivier, 1995); Hector in Heartbreak House (David Hare, Almeida, 1997); and Claudius in the Simon Russell Beale Hamlet (John Caird, NT Lyttelton and Tour, 2000-01).
Television: Edwin Clayhanger in Clayhanger (ITV, 1976); Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC, 1981); The Aphrodite Inheritance (BBC, 1979); The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1980); Pictures (1983); Florence Nightingale (1985); The Collectors (1986); The Mistress (BBC, 1986); Boon (1992); and Witchcraft (Peter Sason, 1992).
RSC: Joined 1961; Associate Artist (since 1961)
Seasons: 1961 (Strat.); 1962 (Lond.); 1964 (Lond.); 1965 (Strat.); 1977 (Strat.)-78 (Lond.); 1979 (Strat./Lond.)-80 (Lond.); 1983 (Strat.)-84 (Lond.); 1990 (Lond.)
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