Peter Madden (actor)
Peter Madden was a British actor.
Early life
The son of Frederick Charles Linnet Butler-Madden and Margaret Teresa, Peter Madden's name at birth was Dudley Frederick Peter Butler-Madden.
Career
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 and as the stern Police Chief in Frankenstein Created Woman. His last Hammer role was brief, as a coach driver in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell.
In the cult television series The Prisoner, 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, Orson Welles Great Mysteries, and Steptoe and Son. He played Inspector Lestrade opposite Douglas Wilmer's Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 BBC series.
Personal life
In 1940, he married actress Mary Jordan. They subsequently divorced. In 1955, he married Marion Snelling, a singer with The Mike Sammes Singers. They had a daughter, Martine.
Death
Madden died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm at his home in Felpham in 1976.
Filmography
Tom Brown's School Days - Jacob Rhythm Serenade The Wicked Lady - HawkerCounterblast - William Lucas, Nazi A Matter of Murder - Sgt. BexA Town Like Alice - Aussie POW Fiend Without a Face - Dr. BradleyBattle of the V-1 - StanislawHell Is a City - Bert DarwinSaturday Night and Sunday Morning - Drunken ManExodus - Dr. ClementA Story of David - Chief HerderA Kind of Loving - RegistrarThe Road to Hong Kong - Lama The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Mr. Smith The Very Edge - Sergeant Williams80,000 Suspects - Ambulance Driver The Kiss of the Vampire - BrunoStolen Hours - ReynoldsFrom Russia with Love - McAdamsEspionage - Martin Davenport Nothing But the Best - Ex-PoliticianWoman of Straw - Yacht CaptainDo You Know This Voice? - Supt. HumeDr. Terror's House of Horrors - Caleb He Who Rides a Tiger - Peepers WoodleyDr Zhivago - Political OfficerOut of the Unknown - ExaminerFrankenstein Created Woman - Chief of PoliceThe Violent Enemy - HewittThe Picasso Summer - Blind ManVendetta for the Saint - Lo ZioThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Von TirpitzTales of Unease - FlintOn the Buses - Mr. BrooksHenry VIII and His Six Wives - FisherNearest and Dearest - Court BailiffSteptoe and Son - Norman, Retired PolicemanFrankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Coach DriverCause for Concern - Narrator One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing - SandersThe Message - Toothless Man