Peter Frye

Peter Frye (born as Peter Friedman) was a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director.

Biography Frye, who was Jewish, was born on March 1, 1914, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Frye, who spoke fluent English, French, German, Hebrew and Spanish, fought in the Spanish Civil War from 1937 to 1938 as a member of the XV International Brigade and was wounded in action. and became a drama professor at the University of Tel Aviv, and also worked as a stage director, actor, screenwriter and film director. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1970s. the first feature film produced in Israel. He directed, and co-wrote the screenplay for, the 1961 Israeli drama film I Like Mike , which was entered for the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He co-directed the 1963 Israeli documentary film The Hero's Wife (Eshet Hagibor), which depicted life on a kibbutz, and directed the 1960 Israeli drama film Surprise Part, the 1966 documentary film Israel – The Holy Land and the 1969 Israel film My Margo. and Professor Maddox in the 1988 British TV film Mr Know-all. He also acted in the 1972 Jack Gold film The Gangster Show: The Irresistible Rise of Arturo Uri.

He was married twice. His first wife was Romanian actress Batya Lancet with whom he had a daughter. His second marriage, from 1970 until his death, was to English actress Thelma Ruby. From 1980, they adapted and performed together in the play Momma Golda about the life of Golda Meir, Israel's first and only woman Prime Minister.

Frye died on June 2, 1991, in Sutton, London, England, UK.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1943 Seeds of Freedom 1968 Ha-Dybbuk Sender 1976 The Sell Out Kasyan 1976 The Passover Plot Herod Antipas 1979 Jesus Pontius Pilate 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four Rutherford 1985 King David Judean Elder

Publications Ruby-Frye, Thelma; Frye, Peter (1997). Double or Nothing: Two Lives in the Theatre. The Autobiography of Thelma Ruby and Peter Frye. Janus Publishing Company, 336 pp.