He attended the Central School of Speech & Drama before leaving early to pursue a career as a Comedian in an act called the 'Diamond Brothers'. He worked as a blue coat for a Pontins Holiday camp in Selsey, West Sussex in 1978.
He appeared in a series of musical adverts in the 1980s for the Do It All chain of DIY stores along with another Comic Strip actor, Ron Tarr, and the Birds Eye Steakhouse advertisement featuring the song "We Hope It's Chips", sung to the tune of "Que Sera Sera". More Recently he took on a leading role in No Reasons (2014).
Daniel also stars as a thug in "Billy's Christmas Angels" which was shown on Channel 4 in 1988 alongside Nabil Shaban who was Sil the Slug in Doctor Who and Steve Johnson from Terror Towers CITV and Motormouth.
He is the son of actor Trevor Peacock (who plays 'Jim Trott' in The Vicar of Dibley) and brother of actor Harry Peacock (a regular Star Stories satirist). In 2010, he attended the annual Only Fools and Horses convention, then at the Bunyan Sport Centre, Bedford.
His latest sitcom, Marley's Ghosts, revolves around a woman called Marley Wise who finds she can communicate with the dead. The series first aired on Gold in September 2015.
