Peter Egan

ActorProducerWriter 1965–2025 (60 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Highest Rated

I Could Never Go Vegan

2024 · Executive Producer

9.0

Postcards from Buster

2004 · Writer

8.3

Lillie

1978 · as Oscar Wilde

8.2

Known For

Film

Death at a Funeral

Victor

Film

Bean

Lord Walton

Film

The Wedding Date

Victor Ellis

Film

Medium

Writer

Film

Chariots of Fire

Duke of Sutherland

Film

Unforgotten

Martin

Film

Postcards from Buster

Writer

Film

The I Inside

Doctor Truman

Filmography

Acting (79)

Movies (37)

Dogspiracy

2025

as Self

And Mrs.

as Derek

Our Father

Harambe

as Self / Narrator

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

2016

as Sorin

National Theatre Live: People

2013

as Theodore

8.0

American Cafe

2010

as Himself

Death at a Funeral

as Victor

Man to Man

as Gyllenhaal

The Wedding Date

as Victor Ellis

Whatever Love Means

as Prince Philip

The I Inside

as Doctor Truman

The King's Beard

as King Cuthbert (voice)

6.0

2001: A Space Travesty

2000

as Dr. Griffin Pratt

4.3

The Cater Street Hangman

1998

as Edward Ellison

3.8

Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed

1998

as Narrator

Bean

1997

as Lord Walton

6.5

Gobble

1997

as Peter Villiers

The Peacock Spring

1996

as Sir Edward Gwithian

7.0

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

1994

as Frederick

6.0

The Price of the Bride

1990

as Dennis Guant

Paradise Postponed

as Henry Simcox

To Catch a King

as Heydrich

The Dark Side of the Sun

1983

as Raoul

Arms and the Man

1983

as Sergius

Strangled

1982

as Steve Baker

Chariots of Fire

1981

as Duke of Sutherland

6.8

Dear Brutus

1981

as Purdie

The Copyist

1978

as The Copyist

The Kitchen

1977

as Peter

Beloved

1976

as Henry James Prince

The Lifeswappers

1976

as Bunny/Trevor/Miss Trevor/Dinah

Hennessy

as Williams

Callan

as Toby Meres

The Hireling

as Captain Hugh Cantrip

One Brief Summer

The Rivals

as Faulkland

Television (42)

Truelove

2024

as David

6.4

Remembers…

2022

as Self

The Spanish Princess

as Thomas Howard

Hold the Sunset

as Mr. Dugdale

Our Ex-Wife

as George

Unforgotten

as Martin

Grantchester

as Archie Johnson

Downton Abbey

as Hugh 'Shrimpie' MacClare

Moving On

as Eric

Home Again

Jericho

as Philip Pickering

Comedy Connections

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Dr. Trenarrow

Cry Wolf

as Dr Anthony Hook

Loose Women

as Self

The Ambassador

Midsomer Murders

as Norman Swanscombe

Chiller

as Richard Cramer

A Touch of Frost

as Richard Darrow

The Chief

as Simon Duval

Joint Account

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

as Rev. Henry Archery

A Perfect Spy

as Magnus Pym

Paradise Postponed

as George Augustus Simcox

MacGyver

as Frederick Moran

A Woman of Substance

as Adam Fairley

Ever Decreasing Circles

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Fothergill

The Dark Side of the Sun

1983

5.5

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Keith

6.7

Prince Regent

1979

as George, Prince of Wales / King George IV

4.5

Lillie

1978

as Oscar Wilde

8.2

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Peter

7.0

Victorian Scandals

1976

as Henry James Prince

The Love School

1975

as John Everett Millais

Zodiac

1974

as Tony Weston

5.0

The Inheritors

1974

as Michael Gethin

The Organization

1972

as Richard Pershore

7.0

Elizabeth R

1971

as Earl of Southampton

Play for Today

as Purdie

Cold Comfort Farm

as Seth Starkadder

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Faulkland

5.0

Crew (9)

Movies (1)

I Could Never Go Vegan

2024

Executive Producer

9.0

Television (8)

Medium

Writer

Over There

Writer

Medical Investigation

2004

Writer

6.5

Postcards from Buster

Writer

Playmakers

Writer

Breaker High

Writer

The Secret World of Alex Mack

Writer

Sweet Valley High

Writer