• "it's not just what you say - it's the way you say it"

    'Speak the speech, I pray you,...trippingly on the tongue' Hamlet Sc 2 Act 3.
  • "it's not just what you say - it's the way you say it"

    'Speak the speech, I pray you,...trippingly on the tongue' Hamlet Sc 2 Act 3.

GALLERY

Being a compilation of photos from Ed's performances over the decades.

With Robert Mitchum playing Lord Burne-Wilke in Winds of War for Paramount Studios 1981

With Helen Mirren in Cause Celebre for Anglia TV 1987

Father Murphy in Home Sweet Home with John Bluthal for the ABC 1981

 

Meeker in The Invisible Enemy with Tom Baker as Dr Who and Brian Grillis

Playing Bernard Webster in Tenko for the BBC with Stephanie Beacham and Anne Bell 1981

 

Extract from Remembering Tenko by Andy Priestner

Edmund Pegge (Bernard Webster)

Edmund Pegge remembers that being interviewed for Rose’s Australian love interest, Bernard, came about due to his partner: ‘My girlfriend at the time, Linda Barr, went up for a part, didn’t get it, but suggested me to Pennant.’ Although he was pleased to land the part, he recalls being disappointed that Tenko was: ‘a war series about women not about men. Trust me to get a war series about women. Story of my life!’

Pegge ruefully points out that: ‘The other story of my life is that I seem to get killed in everything I do!’ and it didn’t look as though this time it would be any different.

Pegge, actually British born and bred, could ‘do the Australian accent very convincingly,’ so much so that he had previously managed to secure parts in Australian television playing Australians, an ability that helped assure Roberts that Pegge could pull off the role of this typically anti-establishment Aussie.

His recent work in Australia included the role of Pat Lanfranc in a successful mini-series entitled Lucinda Brayford (1980) with Sam Neill, and as Senior Detective Meggs in Skyways (in 1979), a drama series set at the fictitious Pacific International Airport.

Pegge also had a long CV of British television credits, taking in Secret Army (Teddy Marsh in the 1977 episode Identity in Doubt), Doctor Who (Meeker in The Invisible Enemy, also 1977), When the Boat Comes In (in 1976) and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (in 1977).

Pegge’s final credits prior to Tenko included an Australian horror film called Nightmares (1980), an episode of Juliet Bravo (in 1980) and, in keeping with two other cast members, The Day of the Triffids.

FROM EARLIER DAYS......

 


First tour for the Young Elizabethan Players with Mark McManus, Peter Couchman and Doreen Warburton 1962

Ferdinand in The Tempest an ABC TV production with Max Oldaker and Joan Morrow 1963

Paul in My Three Angels with Anna Volska for ABC TV 1964

Telling Peter Weir how to shoot the commercial I am in circa 1964

Horner in The Country Wife at Ipswich Repertory Theatre 1965

Luther in The Daughter in Law with Christine Welch at Castle Theatre Farnham 1969

Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger season in Mallorca 1979

Sandy Tyrell in Hay Fever with my cousin Marilyn Smithwick at Marlowe Theatre Canterbury 1970

With Edward Woodward in Male of the Species tour of Aust.& NZ 1975

Cast of Fallen Angels Aust.& NZ tour with Hayley & Juliet Mills 1993

Lt. Robarts in Luke's Kingdom with director Peter Hammond for Ch.9/Yorkshire TV 1974

 


 

Robbery Under Arms assistant director cricket scenes with Sam Neil and Paul Sheahan for SAFC 1984


 

Robbery Under Arms used Saint's Old Scholars cricketers

This Sporting Britain History of Cricket for Thames TV organised an 18th century match circa 1988


 

Bowler in Follow That Camel with Peter Gilmore, one of the Carry On  movie series


 

Stage Cricket Club team about to play which included Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) circa late 1980's 

Commercial shot in Spain circa 1976


 

Constantine in Three Birds Alighting on a Field for State Theatre Company 1993 with Tim Maddox


Under Milk Wood  Open air one-man show at Glen Ewin by the Lake 1993


Shakespeare's Greatest Hits with Judith & Catriona Barr and Jeremy Wesley Smith at Glen Ewin 1994


 

Narrator Carnival of the Animals concert at Glen Ewin called Two Pianists under the Stars 1995


Cast in Travels with My Aunt for the London Full Circle Production's tour of S-E Asia with Roger Lloyd Pack 1998

Major Chapman in Heroes 11 The Return TV series for Ch 10 1997

Performing poetry in a school from 1997 to 2009

Poetry performance at Banksia School with Richard Potter as the Informing Performing Company

John Bannon as Trotsky and myself as Prince Charles in the Old Footlighters revue at

Holden Street Theatre 2010. Directed by my good friend Wayne Anthoney.

Cast in a movie made in 48 hours in Adelaide 2017 ( best actor award!!)

 'It's a hard life but someone has to do it'
Shooting a commercial in the Maldive Islands just before working with Robert Mitchum in Winds of War 1981 

Alfie Bell and Judi Dench taken at her cottage 2016 (old friends from Nottingham Playhouse days)