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Peter Madden
Peter Madden
	in The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
Born	9 August 1904; Ipoh, Federated Malay States
Died	24 February 1976 (aged 71); Bognor Regis, Sussex, England
Occupation	Actor

Peter Madden (9 August 1904 – 24 February 1976) was a British actor who was born in Ipoh in the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia).^[1]

Birth

The son of Frederick Charles Linnet Butler-Madden and Margaret Teresa (née McCabe), Peter Madden's name at birth was Dudley Frederick Peter Butler-Madden.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2]

He appeared as the innkeeper Bruno in The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) and as the stern Police Chief in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967).^[1] 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.^[3]

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 ("The Ingenious Reporter" episode), and Steptoe and Son ( episode "Live Now P.A.Y.E. Later"). He played Inspector Lestrade opposite Douglas Wilmer’s Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 BBC series.^[4]

Personal life

In 1940, he married actress Mary Jordan (1913–1973).^[5] They subsequently divorced. In 1955, he married Marion Snelling, a singer with The Mike Sammes Singers. They had a daughter, Martine (born 1956).^{[citation needed]}

Death

Madden died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm at his home in Felpham in 1976.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Tom Brown's School Days (1940) - Jacob (uncredited)
Rhythm Serenade (1943)
The Wicked Lady (1945) - Hawker
Counterblast (1948) - William Lucas, Nazi (uncredited)
A Matter of Murder (1949) - Sgt. Bex
A Town Like Alice (1956) - Aussie POW (uncredited)
Fiend Without a Face (1958) - Dr. Bradley
Battle of the V-1 (1958) - Stanislaw
Hell Is a City (1960) - Bert Darwin
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Drunken Man
Exodus (1960) - Dr. Clement
A Story of David (1961) - Chief Herder
A Kind of Loving (1962) - Registrar
The Road to Hong Kong (1962) - Lama (Slim) (uncredited)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) - Mr. Smith (uncredited)
The Very Edge (1963) - Sergeant Williams
80,000 Suspects (1963) - Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) - Bruno
Stolen Hours (1963) - Reynolds
From Russia with Love (1963) - McAdams
Espionage (TV series) ('Do You Remember Leo Winters', episode) (1964) - Martin Davenport
Nothing but the Best (1964) - Ex-Politician
Woman of Straw (1964) - Yacht Captain
Do You Know This Voice? (1964) - Supt. Hume
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1964) - Caleb (segment "Werewolf")
He Who Rides a Tiger (1965) - Peepers Woodley
Dr Zhivago (1965) - Political Officer
Out of the Unknown ('Time in Advance', episode) (1965) - Examiner
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Chief of Police
The Violent Enemy (1968) - Hewitt
The Picasso Summer (1969) - Blind Man
Vendetta for the Saint (1969) - Lo Zio
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) - Von Tirpitz
Tales of Unease ('Calculated Nightmare') (1970) - Flint
On the Buses (1971) - Mr. Brooks
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) - Fisher
Nearest and Dearest (1972) - Court Bailiff
Steptoe and Son (1972, TV Series) - Norman, Retired Policeman
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) - Coach Driver
Cause for Concern (1974) - Narrator (voice)
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) - Sanders
The Message (1976) - Toothless Man (final film role)