Bob Peck

Bob Peck

Born: August 23, 1945
Died: April 4, 1999
in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Robert Peck was an English stage, television and film actor who was best known for his roles as Ronald Craven in the television serial Edge of Darkness and as gamekeeper Robert Muldoon in the film Jurassic Park.

Movies for Bob Peck...

The Miracle Maker
Title: The Miracle Maker
Character: Joseph of Arimathea
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
Character: General Targo
Released: November 28, 1999
Type: Movie
In the seventeenth film in the series, in 1918, a top-secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania, where he engages in mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his very life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.
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Title: The Scold's Bridle
Character: Detective Sargeant Cooper
Released: July 1, 1998
Type: TV
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
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The Scold's Bridle
Title: The Scold's Bridle
Character: Detective Sergeant Cooper
Released: April 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
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FairyTale: A True Story
Title: FairyTale: A True Story
Character: Harry Briggs
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
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The Opium War
Title: The Opium War
Character: Denton
Released: June 30, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.
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Hospital!
Title: Hospital!
Character: Harley Benson
Released: March 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Title: Smilla's Sense of Snow
Character: Ravn
Released: February 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.
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Surviving Picasso
Title: Surviving Picasso
Character: Francoise's Father
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
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Seasick
Title: Seasick
Character: Captain Sebastian Belger
Released: April 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Character: Shylock
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice.
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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Title: The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Character: Self / Robert Muldoon
Released: April 23, 1995
Type: Movie
This documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Jurassic Park," one of the 90's biggest hits and a milestone in special effects development. Narrated by James Earl Jones, it includes footage of the filming process, as well as interviews with director Steven Spielberg, and other members of the cast and crew, who give their insights into what it was like working together on this project and the efforts it took to bring the film to completion.
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Hard Times
Title: Hard Times
Character: Thomas Gradgrind
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
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Title: Hard Times
Character: Thomas Gradgrind
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: TV
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life.
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In Lambeth
Title: In Lambeth
Character: Thomas Paine
Released: July 4, 1993
Type: Movie
All is peaceful in the garden of William Blake - a sanctuary from the stirrings of revolution on the streets. The arrival of an unexpected visitor, Thomas Paine , provokes an impassioned debate between the visionary artist and the political activist.
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Jurassic Park
Title: Jurassic Park
Character: Robert Muldoon
Released: June 11, 1993
Type: Movie
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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Title: Children of the Dragon
Character: Dr. Will Flint
Released: August 18, 1992
Type: TV
Children of the Dragon is a 1992 Australian mini series set against the background of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. It was shot at the ABC Frenchs Forest Studios and at the Sydney Showground.
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Carlo Levi Stopped Here
Title: Carlo Levi Stopped Here
Character: Self - Readings (voice)
Released: July 28, 1992
Type: Movie
The deep North-South divide in Italy is explored through the eyes of northern anti-fascist writer and painter, Carlo Levi, who is exiled by Mussolini to a remote village in Southern Italy. Levi falls in love with the ancient traditions of Southern peasant culture and becomes a passionate advocate, fighting for justice for the impoverished South.
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An Ungentlemanly Act
Title: An Ungentlemanly Act
Character: Major Mike Norman
Released: June 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way towards Government House, the handful of British defenders batten down the hatches and prepare to defend the Governor Rex Hunt, his family and their fellow islanders from the invaders.
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Natural Lies
Title: Natural Lies
Released: May 31, 1992
Type: Movie
An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans.
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Title: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Character: General Targo
Released: March 4, 1992
Type: TV
At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.
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The Black Velvet Gown
Title: The Black Velvet Gown
Character: Percival Miller
Released: June 2, 1991
Type: Movie
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Title: A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Character: Dante (voice)
Released: March 6, 1991
Type: Movie
These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).
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Shoot the Revolution
Title: Shoot the Revolution
Character: Tudor Barbu
Released: December 16, 1990
Type: Movie
During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she die, but why?
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Title: Forget Me Not Farm
Character: Dandelion and Burdock / Portly / Topper
Released: November 13, 1990
Type: TV
Forget Me Not Farm is a BBC children's television programme which ran on BBC Two's children's BBC time slot in the United Kingdom during the 1990s.
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Title: Centrepoint
Character: Armstrong
Released: October 8, 1990
Type: TV
A young man is reunited with his father, who has been presumed dead for ten years, and then tries to unravel the truth behind his disappearance.
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A TV Dante
Title: A TV Dante
Character: Dante
Released: June 13, 1990
Type: Movie
A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy. The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Chief Supt. Tom Meffen
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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Children Crossing
Title: Children Crossing
Character: John
Released: March 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Is Joe really having an affair - or is Rosie imagining it all? A story of sexual jealousy, betrayal and vengeance - an emotional journey which keeps you guessing to the bitter end.
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Lord of the Flies
Title: Lord of the Flies
Character: Marine Officer
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
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Ladder of Swords
Title: Ladder of Swords
Character: Detective Inspector Atherton
Released: January 12, 1990
Type: Movie
An escaped convict, pursued by an obsessive policeman, hides out in a travelling circus
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One Way Out
Title: One Way Out
Character: James
Released: September 10, 1989
Type: Movie
James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.
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Slipstream
Title: Slipstream
Character: Byron
Released: June 22, 1989
Type: Movie
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
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On the Black Hill
Title: On the Black Hill
Character: Amos Jones
Released: September 12, 1988
Type: Movie
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
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Title: The Storyteller
Character: Solider
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: TV
The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
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The Kitchen Toto
Title: The Kitchen Toto
Character: John Graham
Released: April 29, 1988
Type: Movie
The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
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After Pilkington
Title: After Pilkington
Character: James Westgate
Released: January 25, 1987
Type: Movie
The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague.
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The Disputation
Title: The Disputation
Character: Pablo Christiani
Released: December 21, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.
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Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: Ronald Craven
Released: November 4, 1985
Type: TV
Yorkshire detective Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
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Parker
Title: Parker
Character: Rohl
Released: May 3, 1985
Type: Movie
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
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Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Released: November 7, 1982
Type: TV
Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the students. Meanwhile, Kate is subjected to the unwanted attentions of Sir Mulberry Hawk, aided by her uncle. Nicholas and his new friend, Smike, begin their adventures and eventually set out to rescue Kate, with the usual Dickensian twists, turns and asides.
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The Three Sisters
Title: The Three Sisters
Character: Solyony
Released: December 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
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Bavarian Night
Title: Bavarian Night
Character: Joe Pike
Released: March 31, 1981
Type: Movie
The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Macduff
Released: February 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes.
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Royal Flash
Title: Royal Flash
Character: Police Inspector
Released: October 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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Waiting at the Field Gate
Title: Waiting at the Field Gate
Character: Reg
Released: April 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?
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Sunset Across the Bay
Title: Sunset Across the Bay
Character: Bertram
Released: February 20, 1975
Type: Movie
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.