Peter Firth Movies and Career Information

Peter Firth (born 27 October 1953) is an English actor. He is well known for a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s. Firth was a leading child actor by mid-1970, starring in the The Flaxton Boys as Archie Weekes and the Here Come the Double Deckers series, which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang. In July 1973 he appeared at the National Theatre, starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Alan Strang. In May 1981 he appeared on Broadway again in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as Mozart replacing Tim Curry. Shaffer had offered him the role in the original London production but he was unavailable due to film commitments. His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The adaptation was based on a stage adaptation by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud. That same year saw