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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 25, 1919
Died
April 20, 2015
Place of Birth
Kensington, London, England, UK
Peter Howell
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Peter Howell was an English actor of stage and screen. Despite his relatively privileged life (he was educated at Winchester and at Christ Church, Oxford, leaving the latter when called up for service as an officer in the Rifle Brigade during WWII) Howell was a lifelong active member of the Labour Party and campaigned for a number of social issues. One of his most remembered roles is that of the governor in Alan Clarke's 1979 film version of Scum, which he took because he wanted to highlight the issues regarding the penal system. He was also a longtime member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, and opposed their planned 1968-69 England cricket tour of apartheid-era South Africa, which was eventually cancelled. He helped to raise funds for the building of Watermans Arts Centre near his home in Chiswick, west London. Howell died at Denville Hall, a home for retired actors in Northwood, London, on 20 April 2015 after a short illness, aged 95
Known For
6.3
Ernest
Perfect Strangers
2001
7.2
Judge
Hippies
1999
7.8
Fourth Guest
Our Mutual Friend
1998
7.8
Third Guest
Our Mutual Friend
1998
5.4
Clerk of the Court
Princess Caraboo
1994
6.9
College President
Shadowlands
1993
0.0
Harley Street Doctor
My Sister-Wife
1992
8.1
Magistrate
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
0.0
Churchill's Secretary
The Mountain and the Molehill
1989
8.2
Mr. Paul
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Credits
Perfect Strangers
as Ernest
2001
6.3
Hippies
as Judge
1999
7.2
Our Mutual Friend
as Fourth Guest
1998
7.8
Our Mutual Friend
as Third Guest
1998
7.8
Princess Caraboo
as Clerk of the Court
1994
5.4
Shadowlands
as College President
1993
6.9
My Sister-Wife
as Harley Street Doctor
1992
0.0
Jeeves and Wooster
as Magistrate
1990
8.1
The Mountain and the Molehill
as Churchill's Secretary
1989
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mr. Paul
1989
8.2
South Of The Border
as Sir Nigel Pearson
1988
0.0
Bellman and True
as The Bellman
1987
6.2
John and Yoko: A Love Story
as Canon Verney
1985
5.7
A.D.
as Atticus
1985
5.1
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Prison Governor
1985
4.5
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
as Dr. John Wycliffe
1984
10.0
🎬
The Old Men at the Zoo
as Mr. Lascelles
1983
5.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Rothschild
1983
7.0
Dalgliesh
as Sir Charles Freeborn
1983
6.9
'That Crazy Woman'
as Counsel
1980
0.0
Pride and Prejudice
1980
6.9
The Errand
as The Major
1980
7.0
Scum
as Governor
1979
7.1
🎬
The Winter Ladies
as Solicitor
1979
0.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Louis Kendall
1979
6.7
The Mill on the Floss
as Uncle Glegg
1978
5.5
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as Other H2A
1978
0.0
The Professionals
as Howard
1977
7.5
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Other H2A
1977
7.0
Dickens of London
as Mr. Black
1976
6.5
Bill Brand
as Venables
1976
6.3
Dad
as Consultant
1976
0.0
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Judge Leonard Dover
1975
6.9
Brassneck
1975
0.0
Edward the Seventh
as Francis Knollys
1975
6.3
The Sweeney
as Alan Sevier
1975
7.8
Churchill's People
as Samson
1974
1.0
Screamer
as Ward
1974
7.5
Playhouse
as Consultant
1974
7.0
Heil Caesar
as Julius Caesar
1973
0.0
Michael Regan
as Gerald Frankiss
1971
0.0
🎬
The Ten Commandments
as Michael Parkinson
1971
0.0
Elizabeth R
as Lord Howard
1971
7.4
The Champions
as Admiral Cox
1968
6.2
The Prisoner
as Professor
1967
7.7
Theatre 625
as Headmaster
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Whale
1964
7.2
🎬
Story Parade
as Dean Welch
1964
8.0
Doctor Who
as Investigator
1963
7.9
Incident at Midnight
as Inspector Macready
1963
7.0
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as Mr Rayburn
1962
6.0
Two Letter Alibi
as Carlton
1962
5.0
Raising the Wind
as Prof. Lumb
1961
6.2
No Kidding
as Father of Angus
1960
5.6
Watch Your Stern
as Admiral's secretary
1960
5.6
Tarzan the Magnificent
as Dr. Blake
1960
5.8
🎬
Somerset Maugham Hour
as Arthur Lowe
1960
0.0