Actor Peter Cartwright Has Died
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Cartwright was a South African born British actor who made hundreds of appearances in television, film and on radio and worked extensively in the theatre, both in the provinces and London's West End.
Cartwright was born in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa,
and educated at St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown. He arrived in Britain in
1959 and studied at RADA.
He was best known in South Africa for a series of television
commercials in which he was the face of Charles Glass, the legendary founder of
South African Breweries and the brewmaster who brewed Castle Lager. He died of
cancer at his home in London on 18 November 2013, aged 78.
He appeared in the British soap Emmerdale playing George
Postlethwaite the fictional bishop of Skipdale.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he played a
wizard, Elphias Doge, part of the Order of the Phoenix, escorting Harry to
Grimmauld Place.
Other films include Wimbledon, Cry Freedom, Gandhi and The
Fourth Protocol.
Selected TV credits
Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Z-Cars, Rumpole of the Bailey,
Danger UXB, Yes Prime Minister, Casualty, Shackleton, Longitude, The Vicar of
Dibley, Doctor Who.2007 Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Elphias
Doge
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1978 Let's Get Laid Film Director
1979 A Nightingale
Sang in Berkeley Square Major
Treadwell
1982 Gandhi European Passenger
1987 The Fourth
Protocol Jan Marais
1987 Cry Freedom Senior police officer
1996 The Innocent
Sleep Gerald Phillips
2004 Wimbledon Elderly Man in Lift
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