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Actor Peter Kelbie was born in Aberdeen on the 7th January in 1963 third son born into the Scottish Traveller family namely his father Alexander Campbell Kelbie and  his mother Elisabeth Stewart Kelbie of North Deeside Aberdeenshire. The family moved around in the Aberdeenshire and Tayside and Fife areas working on farms and collection of scrap metals. The family had a long relationship in history with Scottish folk music culture. In a period of the introduction of Rock'n'Roll music in the late 1950s early 1960s period in America and also the United Kingdom (Peter Kelbie) was born on the same date Cliff Richard was at number one in the NME pop charts with ( The Last Time) a love Ballad. Peter's parents resided at flat 36 Marischal Street in Aberdeen his parents were married on the 3rd March in 1961 at Aberdeen Town Hall register office. Kelbie was taken into care at birth with lung and Asthma breathing problems and was placed in Arnna Children and Baby Unit and it is clear in fact that all family members were already in care in the Aberdeenshire area under the former Grampian Councils Social Work Department.

There has been a long history of child care proceedings in the travelling communities by the authorities that had once destroyed the very core the history of family unity indeed Peter's sister Alexina Kelbie died in care in Dundee Tayside on the 31st August in 1960 she was 2 years old. His father Alexander Campbell Kelbie died on the 12th of August in 1966 aged 33 years old. As a young toddler Peter was kept in care and was brought up in a harsh fostering farming family background and was schooled in Aberdeenshire while his mother (Elisabeth Stewart Kelbie) Bettie became a highly regarded radical activist in Elgin Morayshire and also in Aberdeen and Dundee Tayside area in her demands for the return of her children from the Social Work Departments she was a lone voice for children's rights and motherhood.

Peter was 13 years old when his mother was killed on the 18th of August in 1976 she was 42 years old and had died on the Great Northern Road near Bucksburn at the Fountain public house in Aberdeen after being killed by a lorry. In 1979 Peter was discharged from care at Mayfield boys home in Banff and was the first younger employee for the Grampian Health Board at Woodlands Hospital in Cults he knew very little regarding his long historical Scottish culture.

Before leaving care he considered a career in The Grampian and Aberdeenshire Police cadets taking after a foster relation who was a Police Inspector of Grampian Police he clearly had his eye on being a Detective for sure and while working for the NHS he decided to make inquiry regarding his family past and enjoyed his career in the health service while employed as a Groundsman at Wellwood Unit and also at Woodlands Hospital in Cults.

Peter left Aberdeen in 1982 to be reunited with two sisters in London and continued in a career in nursing in London and also in the West Midlands, His last post was 'Officer In Charge' at Rees Houses Croydon SSD. And in the 1993 period he joined the (London Drama Centre) to train and study as a method actor.

Taggart star (Mark McManus) supported the plans for a memorial for Peter's sister (Alexina Kelbie) in Dundee a memorial was rejected by the Dundee City Council to his parents in the 1960s and 1970s McManus had known the family for some period of time since the 1960s in boxing circles and also care proceedings (Mary Elizabeth McManus) Mark's mother had friendship with (Elizabeth Stewart Kelbie) peter's mother no question that Mark's mother had fostered children who were deprived neglected children from state run children's homes.

Much of this was highlighted at the time in the Express News Papers and The Sunday Post and The Sun News Group. Peter Kelbie was introduced to (Toni Author) BBC Television in her Stage -Film - method acting Workshops in Beckenham in London to perform in Jack In Robin Hood musical stage production list of credits follow.

Peter Kelbie has two sons from a former relationship based in Croydon Surrey. He resides in Dumfriesshire.

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2003, Feature Film, Detective Inspector Caffery, Lovesick Sicklove,Dark Black & Salvation Films, Director Wolfgang Buld 2002, Feature Film, Detective SGT Richard Miles, No Winners, Abstract Productions, Director Kenan Hudaverdi 1998, Feature Film, Custody Officer, Rage The Movie, Granite Films London & France, Director Newton Aduaka Metrodome UK 1998, Feature Film, SGT Hamish Reid. Distant Bridges, The Great War,Sunfly Pictures London, Director Dusty Rhodes & Colin Buller.

1998, Stage, World War One production for the London Royal British Legion, Stage Director Mike Lions 1996, Barrister's sidekick, Preaching To The Perverted, Cyclop Vision, Director, Stuart Urban

Sole Agent Vicky Edwards www.Doveteam Casting & Creative Agency