Peter Bruce Pauling Whitbread (25 October 1928 – 26 October 2004) was an English

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

and screenwriter. He was born in

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

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and educated at Gresham's School,

Holt, Norfolk Holt is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. The town is north of the city of Norwich, west of Cromer and east of King's Lynn. The town has a population of 3,550, rising and including the ward to 3 ...

. He had a long career in the theatre, including several seasons with the New Shakespeare Company. In his later years, he devised and performed one-man shows. Beyond acting, Whitehead worked as a director, playwright and screenwriter. He concentrated mostly on writing for the theatre, and in 1974 his drama ''Mr Axelford’s Angel'' won the Emmy Award for Best Television Play. He also wrote scripts for the television

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'', and all the episodes of Southern Television children's series ''

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''. He died after a road accident near his home at

Briningham Briningham is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 9.9 miles east north east of the town of Fakenham, 13.3 miles west south west of Cromer, 22.3 miles north north west of the city of Norwich, and 124 miles ...

, near

Melton Constable Melton Constable is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 518 in 225 households at the 2001 census. The population had increased to 618 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of ...

Filmography as actor

*''Troilus & Cressida'' (1981) - Calchas *''Swallows and Amazons Forever!: Coot Club'' (1984) - Rodley *''The Burston Rebellion'' (1985) - Noah Sandy *'' Paris by Night'' (1988) - English Lecturer *''Heritage Africa'' (1989) - Sir Robert Guggiswood

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* 1928 births 2004 deaths Road incident deaths in England People from Holt, Norfolk People educated at Gresham's School English soap opera writers English male stage actors English male film actors British male television writers 20th-century English screenwriters 20th-century English male writers People from North Norfolk (district) Male actors from Norfolk {{England-actor-stub