Peter Bowles Cause Of Death: How Did Peter Bowles Die?

Peter Bowles was an English stage and television actor.

Peter Bowles began his career with the Old Vic Company in 1956 playing small parts in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Richard II.

Peter Bowles’ performance in Running Late was another turning point in his career because it was seen and admired by Sir Peter Hall, who over the next twenty years chose Bowles for eight plays he produced in London’s West End theatres.

Peter Bowles’ first leading role in London was offered after playing Byron in Alan Bridges’ TV film Shelley.

Peter Bowles’ first starring role in the theatre after many years of TV successes was as Archie Rice in John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1986; he was the first actor to play the part in London since Laurence Olivier in 1957.

In 1990 Peter Bowles starred opposite Michael Gambon in Alan Ayckbourn’s Man of the Moment at the Globe Theatre.

Peter Bowles died on 17 March 2022 from cancer.