Born: October 27, 1953

A child actor on British television from 1968, Peter Firth has been in films since 1973's Brother_Sun,_Sister_Moon. Full theatrical stardom came Firth's way in 1973 with his disturbingly convincing portrayal of horse-mutilating stable boy Arthur Strang in Peter Shaffer's Equus. He repeated this role in the 1977 film version, earning a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. He went on to such film characterizations as the title character in Joseph_Andrews (1977), Angel Clare in Tess (1977) and Ivan Patten in Hunt for Red October (1990). His credits in the past decade have included Shadowlands (1993), An_Awfully_Big_Adventure (1995), and a voiceover in the Disney animated feature The_Rescuers_Down_Under (1990). Peter Firth returned to British TV in 1994 as star of the weekly Heartbeat. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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