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Jeffrey Harold Perry (13 October 1948 – 4 February 2012) was an English
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. Born in
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and trained at the
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, he worked extensively for the Royal Exchange in
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. He may be best known to television audiences as
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in the 1988 version of ''
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'', which was part of the
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's ''Chronicles of Narnia'' TV miniseries. In the 2000s, Perry's work included performances at
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. In the summer of 2008, he played Mr. Mole in ''Love's a Luxury''. He was also a director of NOT The National Theatre and toured with them, appearing in several productions.


Selected stage and screen credits


Television

*''
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'' (as
Mr. Tumnus Tumnus is a faun in the ''Narnia'' books written by C. S. Lewis, primarily in '' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' but also briefly in ''The Horse and His Boy'' and in ''The Last Battle''. He is the first creature Lucy Pevensie meets in N ...
), 1988 *'' Micawber'' (as Clerk), 2001


Theatre

*'' Hard Times'', NOT The National Theatre, 1990-1991 *''Playing Sinatra'' (as Norman), NOT The National Theatre, 1999 *''Time and Time Again'' (as Leonard),
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*'' All for Mary'' (as Humphrey Millar),
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, 2001 *'' Hysteria'' (as Sigmund Freud), NOT The National Theatre, 2002 *''Strictly Murder'' (as Josef),
The Mill at Sonning The Mill at Sonning is a theatre and restaurant (or dinner theater), converted from a circa-1800 flour mill on earlier foundations, on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in the English county of Berkshire. The river divides into th ...
, 2006 *''Love's a Luxury'' (as Mr. Mole),
The Mill at Sonning The Mill at Sonning is a theatre and restaurant (or dinner theater), converted from a circa-1800 flour mill on earlier foundations, on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in the English county of Berkshire. The river divides into th ...
, 2008


Death

Jeffrey Perry was found dead at home in
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, by his wife on 4 February 2012. He was 63 years old. An inquest three months later recorded a verdict of suicide; Perry had poisoned himself with chemicals and placed a plastic bag over his head.


References


External links

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Review of ''Love's a Luxury'' at The Stage
retrieved 3 July 2008
Review of ''Love's a Luxury'' at The Oxford Times
retrieved 3 July 2008 1948 births 2012 deaths English male film actors English male television actors English male stage actors Male actors from Lancashire People from Barrow-in-Furness Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors 2012 suicides Suicides by poison Suicides by asphyxiation Suicides in England {{england-actor-stub