1. Robert Peck was an English actor who played Ronald Craven in the television serial Edge of Darkness, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor.
19 Facts About Bob Peck
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Bob Peck was known for his role as game warden Robert Muldoon in the film Jurassic Park and was nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards.
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Robert Bob Peck was born into a working-class family in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 23 August 1945.
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Bob Peck attended Leeds Modern School in Lawnswood, and performed with the National Youth Theatre for six weeks when he was 15.
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Bob Peck then studied at Leeds College of Art, where he received a Diploma in Art and Design, and where he was involved in student amateur dramatics.
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Bob Peck made a memorable appearance on stage in the RSC production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, originally by Charles Dickens, playing two characters: the boisterous Yorkshireman John Browdie and the predatory Sir Mulberry Hawk, and repeated these roles on Broadway and when the production was filmed for television in 1982.
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Bob Peck played the character of Macduff in Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1976 stage and television versions of Macbeth, and re-appeared in another production of the play in 1982, this time playing Macbeth himself.
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Bob Peck appeared in various other successful television productions such as Z-Cars and Play for Today.
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Bob Peck appeared in the films Royal Flash and Parker.
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Bob Peck appeared in the 1987 film On the Black Hill, adapted from the 1982 novel of the same name by Bruce Chatwin.
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Bob Peck voiced all the male characters in the children's live action TV series combined with stop motion animation, Forget Me Not Farm on the BBC in 1990.
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Bob Peck appeared in Screen Two, Screenplay and A TV Dante, as well as in the television films, The Black Velvet Gown and An Ungentlemanly Act.
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In 1993, Bob Peck made his biggest film appearance, when he was cast as park gamekeeper Robert Muldoon in the blockbuster smash hit Jurassic Park.
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Bob Peck played Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi in Verdi, a television film documenting the life of the composer.
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Bob Peck appeared in the direct-to-TV film The Scold's Bridle.
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In November 1994, Bob Peck was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer.
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Bob Peck was said to be undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy and his agent claimed that he was making a recovery, but he died at his home in Kingston-upon-Thames, London, on 4 April 1999, at the age of 53.
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Bob Peck's funeral took place in London, and his close friend and Edge of Darkness co-star Ian McNeice read a eulogy at the service.
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Bob Peck was cremated in London and his ashes were given to his family.