Name Peter Madden | Role Actor | |
TV shows The Flying Doctor, A Class by Himself Movies Frankenstein Created Woman, The Private Life of Sherlock, Dr Terror's House of Horrors, From Russia with Love, On the Buses Similar People Anthony Hinds, Don Sharp, James Bernard, Charles Crichton, Freddie Francis | ||
Peter Madden (9 August 1904 – 24 February 1976) was a British actor who was born in Ipoh in the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia).
Madden was a character actor who made several appearances in Hammer films and was a familiar face in British film and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
He appeared as the innkeeper Bruno in The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) and as the stern Police Chief in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967). His last Hammer role was brief, as a coach driver in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973).
In the cult television series "The Prisoner" (1967), Madden, uncredited, plays the sinister undertaker in the opening sequence.
On television he was seen in Danger Man, Z-Cars, The Avengers, The Saint and The Champions, Out of the Unknown, Steptoe and Son in the episode 'Live Now P.A.Y.E. Later' and also played Inspector Lestrade opposite Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes in the 1968 BBC series.