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Peter McNamara

Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK

Peter McNamara

Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK

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Biography

Peter McNamara, born in London and attended the National Youth Theatre and trained at LAMDA. Possibly best known as Ralph Passmore, the nemesis of Tucker Jenkin's in Tucker's Luck (1983), the spin off series of Phil Redmond's Grange Hill (1978). Peter was known for his fantastic singing voice in many theatre musical productions including South Pacific. He started out his long list of jobs as a supporting artist, working on such films as Quadrophenia (1979), The Shining (1980), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Star Wars (1977), before being cast in Grange Hill (1978). He worked frequently with Christopher Menaul who cast him as a Chelsea skinhead Rory in The Treatment (1984) and previously Tucker's Luck (1983). He became a well respected character actor in a career that eventually spanned four decades, he was often called upon to play the menacing hard-man and when Denzel Washington came to London to work on For Queen & Country (1988), Peter was asked to show him around and guide him on the Cockney accent. In 1990, Peter starred as Kenno in the controversial football hooligan film, Arrivederci Millwall (1990), one of the first films to tackle that subject. He went onto play Jimmy Cadogan in the children's TV series; Oasis (1993) in 1993 and a spot on 99-1 (1994) which reunited him with Arrivederci Millwall (1990) director Charles McDougall. Despite his hard-man roles Peter often played in a lot of comedy TV shows including Desmond's (1989) and Harry Enfield and Chums (1994). In 1995, he appeared in Funny Bones (1995) with Lee Evans, Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt and Oliver Reed. Then in 1996 he was seen in the series No Bananas (1996) as DS Howard. He was in both the film and TV series of London's Burning (1988) and played recurring roles in numerous other British TV shows including Thief Takers (1995), The Bill (1984), Trial & Retribution (1997), Silent Witness (1996) and Casualty (1986). In 2002, he appeared as Frederick Michael Argyle in The Gathering (2002) where he acted alongside Christina Ricci, Ioan Gruffudd and Stephen Dillane. In 2004, he appeared in an extraordinary experimental drama documentary called Pissed on the Job (2004), Peter played a heavy drinker who was also a teacher, the film which can be seen online is a great example of his work, his subtle performance is extremely realistic in this damning piece about the dangers of alcohol. He showed up as a vampire drug dealer in the film Dead Cert (2010) in 2010 and had been working on some low budget films in the latter years of his career that sadly never got released due to budget and various technical issues. His last credit Dinklebrain (2012) was not the last film he made, rumour has it that he was very much actively making some independent short films, which hopefully will emerge in the near future. Sadly, Peter McNamara died in May 2018 at the age of 57 and he was cremated at Enfield Crematorium on 14th June 2018, a week after what would have been his 58th birthday. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Shona M

Movie Credits

The Treatment

The Treatment‌
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calendar 1984

Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery

Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery‌
star0.0
calendar 1992

London's Burning: The Movie

London's Burning: The Movie‌
star8.5
calendar 1986

The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday‌
star7.1
calendar 1980

Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia‌
star7.0
calendar 1979

Lassiter

Lassiter‌
star5.3
calendar 1984

For Queen & Country

For Queen & Country‌
star5.3
calendar 1988

When I'm Sixty-Four

When I'm Sixty-Four‌
star5.3
calendar 2004

Smack and Thistle

Smack and Thistle‌
star0.0
calendar 1991

The Gathering

The Gathering‌
star5.4
calendar 2003

Arrivederci Millwall

Arrivederci Millwall‌
star6.0
calendar 1990

Lucky Break

Lucky Break‌
star6.2
calendar 2001

Dead Cert

Dead Cert‌
star4.4
calendar 2010

Shooting Fish

Shooting Fish‌
star6.3
calendar 1997

Funny Bones

Funny Bones‌
star6.5
calendar 1995

Break Clause

Break Clause‌
star0.0
calendar 2019

The Shining

The Shining‌
star8.2
calendar 1980

Tube Tales

Tube Tales‌
star5.3
calendar 1999

Pissed on the Job

Pissed on the Job‌
star0.0
calendar 2004

Tv Credits

Tucker's Luck

Tucker's Luck‌
star5.5
calendar 1983

Casualty

Casualty‌
star5.9
calendar 1986

Grange Hill

Grange Hill‌
star6.5
calendar 1978

Oasis

Oasis‌
star0.0
calendar 1993

Wycliffe

Wycliffe‌
star6.0
calendar 1994

A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost‌
star7.5
calendar 1992