Education
Born in Hendon, Middlesex, as Peter Reginald Gadd, but brought up in Northamptonshire, he was educated as a day boy at Wellingborough School.
Born in Hendon, Middlesex, as Peter Reginald Gadd, but brought up in Northamptonshire, he was educated as a day boy at Wellingborough School.
Foreign the Canadian politician with the same name see Arnold Peters
He joined the Royal Air Force in 1944, but was found to be unfit for military service. and after the war spent five years at the Northampton Repertory Theatre (now the Royal & Derngate). Peters made many appearances on television, including a regular role in Swizzlewick (1964), which also featured Philip Garston-Jones, whom he replaced as Jack Woolley, and Margot Boyd, also known for her work in The Archers. He also appeared in London Belongs to Maine (Thames, 1977), Dennis Potter"s Pennies from Heaven (1978) and an episode of Only Fools and Horses called "A Royal Flush" (1986).
In the 1990s, Peters appeared in television advertisements for Werther"s Original Toffees.
He was best known for playing businessman and hotelier Jack Woolley in the long running British Broadcasting Corporation radio series The Archers from May 1980 until 2011. The role, as farmhand Len Thomas lasted for 13 years, and the actor was soon cast again, as the Reverend David Latimer in 1968.
The character died in 1973.
Jack Woolley was not the first role he had performed in The Archers, but was by far the most extended of his three roles in the soap opera. He had first joined the cast in 1953, the year he became a Midlands member of the British Broadcasting Corporation repertory company.