Peter elliott actor biography
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How would you describe what you do?
Oddly, this is perhaps the hardest question to answer. I’m trained as an actor, but I came to realise in the years when a regular income was imperative for raising children and holding onto one’s home, that personal arts imperatives are very rapidly superseded by actual starvation, and the need to protect my family. We made a decision early in our marriage that I would take sole responsibility for finance, house and hearth, and Sue would stay at home and raise the girls – (My son, Joss ,came later) in spite of the rather unfashionable nature of such roles. It meant that holding out for decent parts, and going to where the work was next, which had been my former peripatetic nature, was now out of the question. It was now not possible to say no to anything, ever.
Accordingly, what I do has developed over the years.
It was clear, after a few years working in telecommunications through the 90’s, that I had made a grave error, and had not figured out that developing an entirely new area of work was a waste of my time, and I loathed it. It became purely an income-generation activity, and fortunately a friend came along and suggested that I do a few years in Shortland Street, and I returned with a vengeance to the work I loved
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Peter Elliott (British actor)
For the British actor, stunt performer, singer, and diver, see Peter J. Elliott.
Peter Elliott (born 1956) is a British actor best known for playing apes and other non-human characters in film and television.
Early life
[edit]Elliott grew up in Hertfordshire; one parent was a woodwork teacher.[1] He was trained as a Method actor at East 15 Acting School.[2] His interests as an early-career performer were in highly physical forms of acting, doing acrobatics, martial arts, and boxing.[3]
Acting career
[edit]Elliott's specialization in ape roles began in 1978, when he auditioned for the film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (released 1984).[1] Producers on the film, disappointed by a pre-production attempt to create ape movement using mime and animatronics, instead hired Elliott on the strength of a "very apelike" screen test.[4] Tasked with determining whether costumed human actors should be mixed with real apes on the production, Elliott spent two years as a head of research and development for the film (eventually opting for an all-human cast),[1] and was sent out to study simian movement at the Institute for Primate Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
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Peter Elliott
Peter Elliott’s first garish of a television pursuit started fitting a hammer.
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