Peter Madden (actor)

Peter Madden (actor)
Peter Madden (9 August 1904 – 24 February 1976) was a British actor who was born in Ipoh in the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia).
Birth
The son of Frederick Charles Linnet Butler-Madden and Margaret Teresa (McCabe), Peter Madden's name at birth was Dudley Frederick Peter Butler-Madden.
Career
Madden was a character actor who made several appearances in Hammer films and was a familiar face in British film and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
He appeared as the innkeeper Bruno in The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) and as the stern Police Chief in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967). His last Hammer role was brief, as a coach driver in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973).
In the cult television series The Prisoner (1967), Madden, uncredited, plays the sinister undertaker in the opening sequence.
On television he was seen in Danger Man, Z-Cars, The Avengers, The Saint and The Champions, Out of the Unknown, Orson Welles Great Mysteries ("The Ingenious Reporter" episode), and Steptoe and Son (episode "Live Now P.A.Y.E. Later"). He played Inspector Lestrade opposite Douglas Wilmer’s Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 BBC series.
Personal life
In 1940, he married actress Mary Jordan (1913–1973). They subsequently divorced. In 1955, he married Marion Snelling, a singer with The Mike Sammes Singers. They had a daughter, Martine (born 1956).
Death
Madden died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm at his home in Felpham in 1976.
Filmography
Tom Brown's School Days (1940) - Jacob (uncredited)
Rhythm Serenade (1943)
The Wicked Lady (1945) - Hawker
Counterblast (1948) - William Lucas, Nazi (uncredited)
A Matter of Murder (1949) - Sgt. Bex
A Town Like Alice (1956) - Aussie POW (uncredited)
Fiend Without a Face (1958) - Dr. Bradley
Battle of the V-1 (1958) - Stanislaw
Hell Is a City (1960) - Bert Darwin
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Drunken Man
Exodus (1960) - Dr. Clement
A Story of David (1961) - Chief Herder
A Kind of Loving (1962) - Registrar
The Road to Hong Kong (1962) - Lama (Slim) (uncredited)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) - Mr. Smith (uncredited)
The Very Edge (1963) - Sergeant Williams
80,000 Suspects (1963) - Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) - Bruno
Stolen Hours (1963) - Reynolds
From Russia with Love (1963) - McAdams
Espionage (TV series) ('Do You Remember Leo Winters', episode) (1964) - Martin Davenport
Nothing but the Best (1964) - Ex-Politician
Woman of Straw (1964) - Yacht Captain
Do You Know This Voice? (1964) - Supt. Hume
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1964) - Caleb (segment "Werewolf")
He Who Rides a Tiger (1965) - Peepers Woodley
Dr Zhivago (1965) - Political Officer
Out of the Unknown ('Time in Advance', episode) (1965) - Examiner
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Chief of Police
The Violent Enemy (1968) - Hewitt
The Picasso Summer (1969) - Blind Man
Vendetta for the Saint (1969) - Lo Zio
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) - Von Tirpitz
Tales of Unease ('Calculated Nightmare') (1970) - Flint
On the Buses (1971) - Mr. Brooks
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) - Fisher
Nearest and Dearest (1972) - Court Bailiff
Steptoe and Son (1972, TV Series) - Norman, Retired Policeman
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) - Coach Driver
Cause for Concern (1974) - Narrator (voice)
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) - Sanders
The Message (1976) - Toothless Man (final film role)
References
External links
Madden on The Dictionary of Hammer Horror
1904 births
1976 deaths
English male film actors
English male television actors
People from Ipoh
20th-century English male actors