Peter Cheevers acting CV

 

 

Email: cheeverspeter@hotmail.com

Equity no: M00048478

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Peter Cheevers and Denis Waterman in Minder

Training:  RADA (Summer Course) under Tutor Geoff  Bullen (Drama Coach) & Robert Palmer (Voice Coach).

At the age of 22 Peter was Paul McCartney’s stunt double on the film Help, and went on location with the Beatles to Nassau in the Bahamas. 

Cast in Help

Credited cast:
	Neil Aspinall	...	Himself
	Steve Barron	...	Himself
	Eleanor Bron	...	Herself
	Peter Cheevers	...	Himself

                 

                 

In 1982 his one-man-show Harry Carpenter Never Said It Was Like This became a major television ‘play of the month’; Peter Cheevers co-authored the television play with Ian La Frenais of Likely Lads fame.

Television 

Henry Intervening BBC Director: Ernest Vince                                                                                                    
Red Roses for Me BBC Director Alan Gibson                                                                                         
Minder ITV Director Roy Ward Baker 1984                                                                                                 
Minder ITV Director: Ian Toynton 1986                                                                                                                   
The Bill Director Peter Cregeen                                                                                                                                               
Harry Carpenter Never Said it Was Like This 
(co-authored with Ian La Frenais) Director Tony Simmons                         

 

Film                                                                                                                                 

The Great Vivendi (Lead) Beaconsfield Studios                       

The Actor (on location with Eddie Large).                                  

No One at The Wheel (location) Director/Writer Peter Cheevers                                                                          

Radio/Voice work:                                                                                                

BBC Seamus Heany poetry.                                                                                       

Narrator for production of River Dance. 

Interviews: ‘World at One’ Radio 4, Radio London, Capital Radio. BBC Radio Kent.                

Theatre:

 Ned Kelly (Lead) City Lit Director: Miriam Andrews                  

Twelfth Night (Tour) Director: Nicholas Renton                      

Othello Director  Café Theatre Director David Creedon          

Under the Auspices Half Moon Theatre Director: Robert Walker                             

The Ring Gangsters Half Moon Theatre                         

Down and Out in Paris Gate Theatre Director: Lou Stein                                                                                                                    

Empire Builders Gate Theatre (with Dudley Sutton) Director: Lou Stein 

Dudley Sutton & Peter Cheevers                                                    

We all live in Pennsylvania Elephant Theatre  Writer/Director Peter Cheevers                                                                              

Butterfly Fingers (Pantomime) Kingston Theatre Director: Lou Stein                                                                                                 

Sound of Music Margate Pavilion Director: Anna Nugent     

  A Tale of Two Cities Broadstairs Playhouse Director: Philip Noyce                                                                                             

  Babes in the Wood Margate Pavilion Director; Anna Nugent     

 Charlie Maine (Lead) Café Theatre and Hampstead Theatre Director/Writer Bee Cutler                                                           

One Person Show (various London venues and Edinburgh Festival) 
                             

                                                                    

Critical Reviews

Aftermath - A one man show

The Scotsman: "Peter Cheevers' new one man show is potentially excellent. At the moment it is diverse, nicely sardonic, versatile and more than a little baffling. There was a definite air of something happening but no one knew quite what. Cheevers is a talented performer, and the characters with whom he peopled his show were beautifully drawn".

Harry Carpenter  

John Osborne: "I kept thinking of Marlon Brando's famous scene in the back seat of the car from On The Waterfront, 'I could have had class', he lamented. His anguish was almost Lear-like. Mr Cheevers seemed as if he might not only play the violin again but learn the pianoforte as well".

Ray Connolly: '...of all the films and plays I have seen about the fight game I would have to say that this was one of the most forceful, partly because of Peter Cheever's performance.'

The Ring Gangsters
Linsday Duguid in the Times Literary Supplement:                  '...the season's masterpiece, the single dinner jacketed actor holds the stage presenting spectators, participants and commentators in funny informative touching entertaining  and authentic parodies

Time Out '...Cheevers presents some remarkable ringside caricatures.'

Owen Dudley Edwards The Scotsman: 

'He knows how to change personality in a flicker, and how to suggest vital figures present in the empty air around him. He can bounce with confidence and virtually die from battering with the same credibility...the evening remains a testament to an actor whose consistent professionalism is wholly at the service of his deep humanity".

Sheriff of Nottingham

 "Peter Cheevers oozed nastiness as the Sheriff of Nottingham and was a real scene-stealer bringing an instant response from the youngsters whenever he ventured onto the stage".

Gallery

While filing No One At The Wheel

  

Modelling for Queen Magazine: Photographer Duffy 

             In Hollywood, a bit of recreation, from writing 'scripts'

Writing for Walt Disney

D 88073	Donald Duck Storage	4 rows per page	Plot: Peter Cheevers Script: Jack Sutter Pencils: Vicar	1989-10-26	Appearances: Daisy Duck, Donald Duck
D 88062	Donald Duck Homing Pigeons	9 p. 4 rows per page	Plot: Peter Cheevers Script: Tom Anderson Pencils:Vicar	1990-02-22	Appearances: Daisy Duck, Donald Duck, Gladstone Gander Description: Trying to get GL's home pigeon message

Ring Gangsters

'The masterpiece of the season...' Linsay Duguid in the Times Literary Supplement

 

As Ned Kelly

 

 

Classical Music play/concert on Great Composers at St. Johns, Smith Square London

Peter Cheevers is an award winning writer he has had 2 books published: 'Family Stress' published by SPCK  and 'SAD' published in America by Hunter Press.

His Journalism & Short Stories are published by Ether Books

http://catalog.etherbooks.com/Authors/1118

Peter Cheevers in Moscow wearing theory like a Versace waistcoat.

  BBC radio interview

http://petercheeversactingcv.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/blog-post.html

Education:

BA(Hons) Literature Philosophy, MA Semiotics London Institute The Demise of the Avant Garde, PhD The Subject and its Performance, Brunel University

Below: artists impression of Peter Cheevers while doing his PhD

 


Peter Cheevers is a County tennis player (Kent),  

his other hobbies are fencing and playing his guitar badly - much to the annoyance 

of his partner and four daughters.