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13 Facts About Daniel Peacock

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Daniel Peacock was born on 2 October 1958 and is an English actor, director, writer and carer.

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Daniel Peacock has worked with the team of The Comic Strip Presents.

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Daniel Peacock is the son of late actor and composer Trevor Peacock and Iris Jones and the half-brother of actor Harry Peacock.

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Daniel Peacock worked as a bluecoat for a Pontins Holiday camp in Selsey, West Sussex in 1978.

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Daniel Peacock has had success as a television series writer credited with Teenage Health Freak, Sister Said, Cavegirl and other successful series.

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Daniel Peacock wrote and starred in the film Party Party.

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Daniel Peacock moved into acting and writing and his credits as an actor include the following television series: Assaulted Nuts, The Young Ones, Little Armadillos, Only Fools and Horses, Robin of Sherwood, The Bill, Doctor Who as Nord the Vandal in the serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Casualty and One Foot in the Grave.

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Daniel Peacock has starred in the second series of Coming of Age as DK's estranged father who has just left prison.

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Daniel Peacock played young Jacques Clouseau in Trail of the Pink Panther and he appeared in The Jewel of the Nile as the special effects maestro.

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Daniel Peacock was one of the regular cast in Nick Hyde and Glen Cardno's Valentine Park for ATV Network starring Ken Jones, David Thewlis and Liz Smith and wrote Men of the World starring John Simm and David Threlfall, Cavegirl, Harry and Cosh, Mud, Very Big Very Soon for Central TV starring Paul Shane, Sheila White, Shaun Curry and Tim Wylton, as well as adapting Teenage Health Freak for TV.

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Daniel Peacock appeared in a series of musical adverts in the 1980s for the Do It All chain of DIY stores along with another Comic Strip actor, Ron Tarr, and the Birds Eye Steakhouse advertisement featuring the song "We Hope It's Chips", sung to the tune of "Que Sera Sera".

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In 2016, Daniel Peacock played the role of Maurice in Spencer Hawken's No Reasons.

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Since around 2019, Daniel Peacock has been working as a lifestyles co-ordinator at Hastings Court Care Home in East Sussex, resulting in a nomination for a National Care Award in 2022.