Peter Madden (1904 - 1976) was a British actor who portrayed MacAdams in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love.
Career
Madden was a character actor who made several appearances in Hammer films and was a familiar face in British film and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
He appeared as the innkeeper Bruno in The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) and as the stern Police Chief in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967). His last Hammer role was brief, as a coach driver in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973).
In the cult television series The Prisoner (1967), Madden, uncredited, plays the sinister undertaker in the opening sequence.
On television he was seen in Danger Man, Z-Cars, The Avengers (with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg), The Saint (with Roger Moore) and The Champions (with Alexandra Bastedo), Out of the Unknown, Orson Welles Great Mysteries, ('The Ingenious Reporter', episode), Steptoe and Son in the episode 'Live Now P.A.Y.E. Later' and also played Inspector Lestrade opposite Douglas Wilmer’s Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 BBC series.
Personal life
In 1940 he married the actress Mary Jordan (1913–1973). They subsequently divorced.
In 1955 he married Marion Snelling, a singer with The Mike Sammes Singers. They had a daughter, Martine, in 1956.
Peter died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm at his home in Felpham in 1977.