Bob Peck

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caption = Peck as Ronald Craven in "Edge of Darkness"
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birthdate = birth date|1945|8|23|df=y
birthplace = flagicon|England Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
deathdate = death date and age|1999|4|4|1945|8|23|df=y
deathplace = London, England, United Kingdom
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yearsactive = 1972 - 2000
spouse = Jill Baker (? - 1999)
baftaawards = BAFTA TV Award
Best Actor
1986 "Edge of Darkness"
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Bob Peck (23 August 1945 – 4 April 1999) was an English stage, television, and film actor who came to acting relatively late in life.

He was probably best known to British audiences for his role as Ronald Craven in the acclaimed 1985 BBC drama serial "Edge of Darkness". The role won him "Best Actor" at that year's BAFTA Awards and helped to launch his television and film career. He later became familiar to audiences worldwide for his film roles, including "Jurassic Park" (as park game warden Robert Muldoon), and "Smilla's Sense of Snow". He also played an escaped android in the post apocalyptic film "Slipstream", which also starred Mark Hamill and Bill Paxton. He also played the marine officer who discovers the children in the 1990 film "Lord of the Flies" and starred in a BBC Radio adaptation of J. B. Priestley's classic play "An Inspector Calls".

Peck's other television work included "Natural Lies" (1991), "An Ungentlemanly Act" (1992) and "The Scold's Bridle" (1998). He also played The Soldier in the episode of the television series "The Storyteller" called "The Soldier and Death". Peck was educated at the Leeds College of Art where he received a diploma in Art & Design. Before breaking into film and tv work he was a regular actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Donald Sinden and Dame Judi Dench, and appeared both on stage and on television in the RSC production of "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" as "John Browdie" and "Sir Mulberry Hawk". According to McKellen, Peck is the one actor he considers he "learned the most from". [ [http://www.mckellen.com/epost/m020828.htm 28 August 2002 ] ]

Peck died of cancer on 4 April 1999 in London [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6DA1338F933A25757C0A96F958260 Bob Peck, 53, Actor Of Stage and Screen - New York Times ] ] at the age of 53 after fighting the illness for several years. He is survived by his wife Jill and children Hannah, George and Milly.

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