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image:pfirth.jpg|thumb|200px|Peter Firth
Peter Firth (born October 27 1953 in Bradford,
Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom|UK) is a United
Kingdom|British actor, 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 1970, starring
in a television series called Here Come the Double
Deckers, which was made in the USA but set in
London and featured British children in the
leading roles.  Firth played Scooper, the leader
of the gang.  In 1973, he starred in the London
stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus,
playing a teenager being treated by a
psychiatrist.

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 scripted by John
Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John
Gielgud, becoming a major success with the
critics. The following year, Firth starred in
Equus, the film adaptation of the play in which he
had starred on Broadway theatre|Broadway. The film
was a success and earned Firth a nomination for
the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and
victory in the same category at the Golden Globe
Awards.

Further film work quickly followed, most notably
Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), an adaptation of
Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Subsequent film work has included roles in The
Hunt for Red October (1990) and Pearl Harbor
(movie)|Pearl Harbor (2001).

In parallel to his film career, Firth has
continued to appear in various television
productions, with several notable credits in
various high-profile dramas. In 1980 he starred as
the eponymous time traveller in the BBC's feelgood
Science fiction on television|science-fiction play
The Flipside of Dominick Hide, and two years later
starred in a sequel, Another Flip for Dominick.
Both of these were made as part of the BBC's
famous Play for Today anthology drama strand. More
recently, he has starred as senior MI5 officer
Harry Pearce in the BBC's popular spy drama series
Spooks (2002-present), and played Fred Hoyle in a
BBC dramatisation of the early career of Stephen
Hawking.

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