Peter Dennis

Peter Dennis was an English actor who played Isaac Newton in the second season episode and Admiral Hendricks in the seventh season episode . He is perhaps best known for his one-man show, Bother! The Brain of Pooh, in which he performed selections from 's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
== Personal life ==
Dennis was born in Dorking, Surrey, England. When he was 19, he was drafted into the British Army, where he served for six years. Afterward, he became a personal assistant to the chief executive officer of the British engineering company Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds (now known simply as ). He resigned from the company the day after watching his first play, a production of Look Back in Anger, and he graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) three years later. 
Dennis had one child from his first marriage, a son named Shane. Dennis and his first wife divorced in 1961. In 1994, his son was killed in St. Louis, Missouri, an unintended victim in a drive-by shooting. 
Dennis married actress Diane Mercer on 24 March 1979. He died of cancer at his home in Shadow Hills, California, on 18 April 2009. He was 75 years old.
== Career ==
=== 1960s-1980s ===
Early in his acting career, Dennis appeared on such British television shows as No Hiding Place, The Avengers, The Troubleshooters, Detective, and New Scotland Yard. Between 1973 and 1976, he played the recurring role of Sutton on . He made his film debut in the British comedy Confessions of a Window Cleaner in 1974. He then appeared in The Stud with Joan Collins in 1978.
In the 1980s, Dennis was seen on such British series as Grange Hill, Never the Twain, Yes Minister, Minder, and C.A.T.S. Eyes. He also appeared with Christopher Neame in the 1983 mini-series The Cleopatras and (1988, directed by Jud Taylor). In addition, Dennis played General Bernard Law Montgomery in Part Nine of the 1989 mini-series War and Remembrance. Steven Berkoff, Jeremy Kemp, and William Schallert appeared in this segment, as well.
=== 1990s-2000s ===
Following supporting roles in the 1990 British films A Man Called Sarge and The Rainbow Thief and an appearance in the first Prime Suspect, Dennis relocated to the United States in 1991 and began appearing on American television shows. The first was an episode of co-starring Nick Tate, which aired a few days before his episode of Murphy Brown with Brian McNamara. He then had a two-episode recurring role on , working with Vaughn Armstrong, Tzi Ma, John Pyper-Ferguson, and David Youse.
Dennis later appeared on such series as Knots Landing (with Michelle Phillips), Friends, (with Edward Laurence Albert and Michael Ensign), (with Tommy Hinkley), (with Jason Alexander and Tucker Smallwood), and (with Richard Cox). He has also appeared in two series created by J.J. Abrams, Felicity (in 1999, with Amanda Foreman, Greg Grunberg, and Chris Sarandon), and (in 2001, with Robert Clendenin and Keone Young).
In 1996, he played the voice of Moff Jerjerrod in , with Natalija Nogulich.
Perhaps Dennis' most notable film role is that of Leslie Bough in (2004, starring fellow Voyager guest performer Virginia Madsen). His other film credits include Hellborn (with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Tracy Scoggins, and David Jean Thomas), Man in the Chair (with Christopher Plummer, Ellen Geer, George Murdock, and Tracey Walter), and Ten Inch Hero (with Alice Krige). He also voiced an ogre hunter in (2000) and was a voice actor on (2006, starring Ed Speleers) and (2007, featuring Dominic Keating).
Dennis' final acting appearance was in a 2008 episode of . His episode, "The High Holiday", also featured Michelle C. Bonilla, Scott Grimes, and Leland Orser.
=== Bother! ===
Dennis premiered his one-man show, Bother! The Brain of Pooh, at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge on 14 October 1976. In December 1986, the show received its American premiere at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Hollywood, California, where it was honored with the Drama-Logue Award and the LA Theater Award. Dennis performed the show over three hundred more times at more than a hundred different venues throughout America and Europe.
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