Peter Firth

More recently, he has starred as senior MI5 officer Harry Pearce in the BBC's popular spy drama series Spooks (2002-present), and played Fred Hoyle in a BBC dramatisation of the early career of Stephen Hawking. He has also starred in 102 Dalmatians, ITV's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, Black Hawk Down, and King Arthur. Both of these were made as part of the BBC's famous Play for Today anthology drama strand. Next, he played Pip in the BBC production of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. In 1980 he starred as the eponymous time traveller in the BBC's feelgood science-fiction play The Flipside of Dominick Hide, and two years later starred in a sequel, Another Flip for Dominick. Forester novels. In parallel to his film career, Firth has continued to appear in various television productions, with several notable credits in various high-profile dramas. He later got his best-known role as Horatio Hornblower in the ITV production of the C.S.

Subsequent film work has included roles in The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Pearl Harbor (2001). After playing Oscar Wilde's gay lover in Wilde in 1997, he got his first international role as Fifth Officer Lowe in Titanic. Further film work quickly followed, most notably Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. His won his first major English language role a few years later in the 1996 TV remake of Poldark. The film was a success, and earned Firth a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and victory in the same category at the Golden Globe Awards. Aged 18 he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). The following year, Firth starred in Equus, the film adaptation of the play in which he had starred on Broadway. Gruffudd started his acting career at the age of 14 in the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley).

The adaptation was scripted by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud, becoming a major success with the critics. He has two siblings – a brother, Alun, who is two years younger and a sister, Siwan, who is seven years younger than him. His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ioan Gruffudd (pronounced YO-an GRIFF-ith) is a Welsh actor, born in Cardiff, Wales, UK on 6 October 1973. His parents, Peter and Gillian Gruffudd, were teachers. In 1973, he appeared on stage in Peter Shaffer's Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang.

Firth was a leading child actor by 1970, starring in the Double Deckers series, which was made in the USA but set in London and featured British children in the leading roles. Peter Firth (born October 27, 1953 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK) is a British actor, well known for a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s.