Peter Vaughan

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Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016) was an English character actor best known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions.

He also worked on stage. He was best known for his appearance in the sitcom Porridge as Grouty (despite appearing in only three episodes and the 1979 film) and also appeared in Citizen Smith, written by John Sullivan.

He appeared in Chancer (1990–1991), playing Anthony Hopkins' character in The Remains of the Day, as the father of Anthony Hopkins' character in The Remains of the Day, and as Maester Aemon in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2015), his last role.

Early life

Vaughan was born in Wem, Shropshire, the son of a bank clerk, Max Ohm, an Austrian immigrant, and Eva Wright, a nurse. The family later moved to Wellington, in the same county where he began his education. When reciting a poem at an infant school in Wellington, Vaughan said he first noticed the applause and admiration from a good performance. He attended Uttoxeter Grammar School from the age of seven, where he attended Uttoxeter Grammar School.

Vaughan joined the Wolverhampton Repertory Theatre after leaving school and gained experience in other repertory theatres as well, long before army service during the Second World War. On 9 June 1943, he was sent a second lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals and served in Normandy, Belgium, and the Far East. Vaughan was in Singapore during the liberation of Changi Prison.

Personal life and death

Billie Whitelaw, whom he married in 1952 and divorced in 1966, was the first of Vaughan's two marriages. He married actress Lillias Walker, who lived in Mannings Heath, West Sussex, until his death. He had previously lived in Crawley. Victoria Burton, his stepdaughter (actor and producer) is married to Gregor Fisher.

In his old age, Vaughan was partially blind. He died peacefully of natural causes on December 6, 2016, at the age of 93.

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Career

In 1959, Vaughan made his film debut as a police officer in The 39 Steps, which was uncredited. He continued to act in small roles in Village of the Damned and The Victors for many years, including more cameos as policemen, before landing his first acting role in a minor film called Smokescreen (1964), where he played an insurance examiner investigating a businessman's disappearance in one of the last, and best, of the old-style British B-movies. In 1967, he received his second billing opposite Frank Sinatra in the film The Naked Runner. One critic, who accused him of overacting in his position as a British agent, was dissatisfied with his results. In Karel Reisz's 1980 film "The French Lieutenant's Woman," he played Mr. Freeman, alongside Meryl Styep and Jeremy Irons.

In The Remains of the Day (1993), possibly Vaughan's highest-profile film role was as the father of Anthony Hopkins' character. He was also cast in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, but he had never fired any material before it was abandoned. He had appeared in Time Bandits and Brazil before. In Straw Dogs (1971), Vaughan appeared as a frightening character, as well as with Bill Murray in a film of W. Somerset Maugham's book The Razor's Edge in 1984. In 1996, he appeared as Giles Corey in The Crucible, and in 1997, he appeared alongside Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone in Face. Vaughan appeared in Les Misérables, 1998, alongside Liam Neeson. Arthur Nebe, the SS Obergruppenführer in Robert Harris's masterpiece Fatherland, may have played his most odd role.

He appeared in Kate Bush's album "Experiment IV"'s music video.

Vaughan became well-known for his television appearances, including supporting roles in Porridge (as "Genial") and Citizen Smith as Charles Johnson (he was taken over by Tony Steedman). Despite his character appearing in only three episodes and in the series's 1979 film, his role in Porridge earned him a lot of public attention. Tony Kirby appeared in 1975 in an episode of the hard-hit police drama Stay Lucky, Eh?

In the well-known humorous commercial for McVities Fruit Shortcake biscuits, he also appeared as "the Fence."

In 1969, Vaughan appeared in Randall and Hopkirk in the episode "Never Trust a Ghost." He appeared in the thirteen-part London Weekend Television TV series The Gold Robbers earlier this year. In December 1972, Mr. Paxton appeared on the BBC television version of the M.R. In the M.R.'s adaptation, he appeared as Mr. Paxton. A warning to the Curious, which is part of the company's annual collection A Ghost Story for Christmas.' In an episode called 'Quinn', Quinn appeared in the London Weekend Television television series The Protectors' in September 1973.

In the Thames Television series Fox (1980), Billy Fox appeared as Billy Fox. Trevor Preston, produced by Verity Lambert, was written by Trevor Preston, directed by Jim Goddard, and filmed by Jim Goddard. Elizabeth Spriggs, Ray Winstone, Larry Lamb, and Bernard Hill played other Fox family members. In the Granada Television-PBS docu-drama Countdown to War (1989), Vaughan included those of Russian foreign minister Alexander Izvolsky (1974), British politician Thomas Inskip (1981), and German Nazi figures Kurt Zeitzler (1984) and Hermann Göring in the Granada Television-PBS docu-drama Countdown to War (1989). He appeared in many literary adaptations, including Bleak House (BBC, 1985), in which he played the sinister prosecutor Mr. Tulkinghorn and Our Mutual Friend (BBC Two, 1998). Codename: Kyril (1988), a spy drama set in another television series, appears in a lead role as the head of the KGB.

In 1986, Vaughan appeared in Kate Bush's "Experiment IV" single's promotional video. In 1991, he appeared in a version of Granada Television's "The Boscombe Valley Mysteries."

He appeared in Alan Aykbourn's 'Season's Greetings' on BBC radio 2 in 1986 and then again on BBC 2 some years later. He played Uncle Harvey.

In a role that garnered a Best Actor nomination at the 1997 British Academy Television Awards, Vaughan earned particular acclaim for his supporting role as the Alzheimer's sufferer Felix Hutchinson in Our Friends in the North. In Longitude, Dava Sobel's TV drama adaptation of her eponymous non-fiction book about the quest for a way to determine longitude at sea, he played clockmaker George Graham. He appeared in the television series Mobile in 2007 and as Uncle Alfie in the film Death at a Funeral. Michael Doddd appeared in the BBC courtroom drama Silk, where he appeared as Michael Dodd. Maester Aemon was his final role in HBO's Game of Thrones, from 2011 to 2015.

In the 1981 BBC Radio broadcasting of The Lord of the Rings, Vaughan was seen as Superintendent Kirk in the BBC dramatization of Dorothy L. Sayers' Honeymoon and as Denethor. In a 1993 BBC radio dramatization of the Sherlock Holmes short story, he played Augustus Milverton.

In 1964, Vaughan's first breakthrough role was as Ed in Joe Orton's production Entertaining Mr Sloane appeared at Wyndham's Theatre.

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