MCM: Peter Egan

Whether you know him as Oscar Wilde, the Prince Regent, Shrimpie, or one of his many other frock flick roles, Peter Egan has a long acting career to celebrate. He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts when he was 18 and made his mark on the stage, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Egan’s first TV role was in Cold Comfort Farm, and he’s continued to work in TV ever since, along with occasional movie roles. Of local note, during the 1980s, he taught a semester of Shakespeare and directed Midsummer Night’s Dream at Mills College, in Oakland, California. Plus, he’s vegan and a vocal animal rights activist. Egan is a renaissance man and due for this MCM!

 

 

Seth Starkadder in Cold Comfort Farm (1968)

 

 

Tito in “Mother Love,” W. Somerset Maugham (1969-70)

 

 

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton in Elizabeth R (1971)

 

 

Captain Hugh Cantrip in The Hireling (1973)

 

 

Faulkland in “The Rivals,” BBC Play of the Month (1970)

 

 

John Everett Millais in The Love School (1975)

 

 

Henry James Prince in “Beloved,” Victorian Scandals (1976)

 

 

Ralph Marsh in The Cedar Tree (1977)

 

 

Oscar Wilde in Lillie (1978)

 

 

George, Prince of Wales / King George IV in Prince Regent (1979)

 

 

Duke of Sutherland in Chariots of Fire (1981)

 

 

Sergius in Arms and the Man (1982)

 

 

Major Charles Fothergill in Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)

 

 

Adam Fairley in A Woman of Substance (1984)

 

 

Edward in The Peacock Spring (1996)

 

 

Edward Ellison in The Cater Street Hangman (1998)

 

 

Hugh ‘Shrimpie’ MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire, in Downton Abbey (2012-15)

 

 

Archie Johnson in Grantchester (2015)

 

 

General Howard in The Spanish Princess (2020)

 

What historical costume role of Peter Egan’s do you love most?