Peter Cartwright, (September 1, 1785 - September 25, 1872), was an early American "hellfire and brimstone" preacher. Born in Amherst County, Virginia, Cartwright was a missionary who helped start the Second Great Awakening and personally baptized twelve thousand people. He was a minister who preached benevolence. He settled in Illinois. He lost against Abraham Lincoln for a United States Congress seat in 1846. As a Methodist circuit rider, Cartwright rode circuits in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Peter Cartwright (born 1935) is an actor who has made hundreds of appearances in television, film and on radio and has worked extensively in the theatre, both in the provinces and London's West End.
Cartwright was born in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa educated at St. Andrew's College (Grahamstown, South Africa). He went to Britain in 1959 and studied at RADA. He now lives in London.
He is best known in South Africa for a series of television commercials where he was the face of Charles Glass the legendary founder of South African Breweries and the brewmaster who brewed Castle Lager.
