Trivia

Sometimes gives walking tours of "Theatrical London."

Petherbridge is married to actress Emily Richard, with whom he costarred in The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby (on stage in London and New York, and in the TV miniseries); the play The Busman's Honeymoon; and Pomp and Circumstance.

Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play): in 1982, for playing Newman Noggs in "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," a role he recreated in the television version with the same title, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982); and in 1985 for playing Charles Marsden in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," a role he also recreated in the television version with the same title, Strange Interlude: Part 1 (1988).

Currently filming Midsomer Murders. (May 2007)

He was on the shortlist for Lord Trimingham (played by Edward Fox) in The Go-Between (1971).

He was a conscientious objector during National Service call-ups in the 1950s..

In 2011, he published an autobiographical anthology of essays, poems and artwork under the title 'Slim Chances and Unscheduled Appearances' with a foreword by Sir Ian McKellen.

Best known on TV as the snooty sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey in the Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries.

Petherbridge trained as an actor at Esme Church's Northern Theatre School.

A founding member with Ian McKellen of the Actors' Company in 1972. In 1985, he and McKellen set up the McKellen-Petherbridge Group at the Royal National Theatre .

Also noted as a painter in a variety of media, he held his first art exhibition at Burgh House in Hampstead in 2011. His painting 'The Conductor', which depicts his brother Bill on point duty outside the Bradford Alhambra, circa 1946, was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Made his professional stage debut at the Ludlow Festival in 1956, playing Gaveston in Marlowe's Edward II.

The younger son of William and Hannah Petherbridge.

Winner of the Olivier and London Theatre Critics' Awards for his role as Charlie Marsden in Strange Interlude.

Enjoyed lengthy tenures at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.

Acting in the play The Fantasticks, Duchess Theatre, London. (May 2010)

Attended Newby Primary School in West Bowling, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England as a child.