For the bishop of Malmesbury, see Peter Firth (bishop).
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For the bishop of Malmesbury, see Peter Firth (bishop).

Peter Firth (born 27 October 1953) is an English actor. He is well known for a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s.

Early career
Peter Firth was discovered at the Age of 15yrs by Top Talent Agent Peter Froggatt of Plant & Froggatt Ltd.
Firth was a leading child actor by mid-1970, starring in the The Flaxton Boys as Archie Weekes and the Here Come the Double Deckers series, which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang. In July 1973 he appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Alan Strang. In May 1981 he appeared on Broadway again in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus as Mozart. He was the first replacement in that role which Tim Curry had originated in New York. Shaffer had offered him the role in the original London production but he was unavailable due to film commitments.
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. The adaptation was scripted by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud, becoming a major success with the critics. That same year saw the release of the World War I film Aces High which featured Firth as the inexperienced RFC pilot Lt. Stephen Croft.
Firth played the lead role in the unsuccessful 1977 film adaptation of Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. He also starred in the film adaptation of Equus, alongside Richard Burton. The film was only a moderate success at the box office but earned Firth a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and victory in the same category at the Golden Globe Awards. The film, like the play, was notable for Firth's full frontal nudity. Further film work quickly followed, most notably Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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