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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 4, 1923
Died
December 6, 2016
Place of Birth
Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Peter Ewart Ohm
Peter Vaughan
0.9 Popularity
Biography
Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm) was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on the stage. He is perhaps best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and its 1979 film adaptation. Other parts included a recurring role alongside Robert Lindsay in the sitcom Citizen Smith, Tom Hedden in Straw Dogs, Winston the Ogre in Time Bandits, Tom Franklin in Chancer and Mr. Stevens, Sr. in The Remains of the Day. His final role was as Maester Aemon in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2015).
Known For
8.6
Aemon Targaryen
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
6.0
Grandpa
Albatross
2011
8.5
Maester Aemon
Game of Thrones
2011
7.5
Silk
2011
6.3
Bob
Is Anybody There?
2009
🎬
0.0
George Greenhalgh
The Antiques Rogue Show
2009
8.4
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
3.8
Glen
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
6.9
Uncle Alfie
Death at a Funeral
2007
4.0
Grandad Stoan
Mobile
2007
Credits
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Aemon Targaryen
2015
8.6
Albatross
as Grandpa
2011
6.0
Game of Thrones
as Maester Aemon
2011
8.5
Silk
2011
7.5
Is Anybody There?
as Bob
2009
6.3
🎬
The Antiques Rogue Show
as George Greenhalgh
2009
0.0
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
8.4
Christmas at the Riviera
as Glen
2007
3.8
Death at a Funeral
as Uncle Alfie
2007
6.9
Mobile
as Grandad Stoan
2007
4.0
🎬
Care
as Archie
2006
0.0
Malice Aforethought
as Widdicombe
2005
4.1
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Edward Pretty
2004
5.6
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Bill Sellers
2004
6.6
🎬
Beauty
as Mr. Robbins
2004
6.6
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
as Harry Grout
2003
6.0
The Mother
as Toots
2003
6.0
Margery and Gladys
as Troy Gladwell
2003
7.4
Thursday the 12th
as Edgar Bannister
2003
0.0
The Jury
as Michael Colchester
2002
6.8
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
as Daddy Zoo
2001
5.7
Lorna Doone
as Sir Ensor Doone
2001
5.7
In Deep
as Clayton Waddington
2001
10.0
🎬
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
as Harold King
2001
0.0
Lorna Doone
as Sir Ensor Doone
2000
7.7
Hotel Splendide
as Morton Blanche
2000
5.5
Making Love
as Barone Blau
2000
6.8
Longitude
as George Graham
2000
7.0
Longitude
as George Graham
2000
7.4
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
as Admiral Lord Hood
1999
7.2
An Ideal Husband
as Phipps
1999
6.5
The Legend of 1900
as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
1998
8.2
Hornblower
as Admiral Hood
1998
7.7
Les Misérables
as Bishop
1998
7.2
Our Mutual Friend
as Nicodemus 'Noddy' Boffin
1998
7.8
Face
as Sonny
1997
6.2
The Moonstone
as Gabriel Betteredge
1996
7.0
The Crucible
as Giles Corey
1996
6.6
The Secret Agent
as The Driver
1996
5.5
Our Friends in the North
as Felix Hutchinson
1996
7.4
Oliver's Travels
1995
5.0
Oliver's Travels
as Delaney
1995
5.0
The Choir
as Frank Ashworth
1995
0.0
Fatherland
as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
1994
6.2
Dandelion Dead
as Dr. Hinks
1994
8.0
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Hildegard
as Abbot
1994
0.0
The Spot FX Man
as Harold Listings
1993
0.0
The Remains of the Day
as William Stevens
1993
7.4
🎬
Circle of Deceit
as Liam McAuley
1993
7.5
Heart of Darkness
as Director
1993
5.7
Heartbeat
as Arthur Wainwright
1992
7.1
Heartbeat
as Mr. Andrews
1992
7.1
Chillers
as Winston Greeves
1992
6.2
Murder Most Horrid
as Doverson
1991
6.8
Prisoner of Honor
as Gen. Mercier
1991
6.2
King of the Wind
as Captain
1990
6.4
Chancer
as Tom Franklyn
1990
6.2
Nightingales
as The Inspector
1990
6.4
Mountains of the Moon
as Lord Houghton
1990
6.5
Birds of a Feather
as Monty
1989
6.1
Countdown to War
as Hermann Goering
1989
5.0
Game, Set, and Match
as David Kimber-Hutchinson
1988
7.5
The Bourne Identity
as Fritz Koenig
1988
6.5
Codename: Kyril
as Marshal Stanov
1988
0.0
Codename: Kyril
as Stanov
1988
5.0
When We Are Married
as Alderman Joseph Helliwell
1987
0.0
Harry's Kingdom
as Sid Harris
1987
0.0
Coast to Coast
as The Chiropodist
1987
6.0
Season's Greetings
as Harvey
1986
0.0
Monte Carlo
as Pabst
1986
5.5
Casualty
as Henry Lambert
1986
6.1
Haunted Honeymoon
as Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.
1986
5.3
Bleak House
as Tulkinghorn
1985
6.0
Brazil
as Mr. Helpmann
1985
7.7
Forbidden
as Major Stauffel
1984
5.0
Czech Mate
as Bullneck
1984
3.5
The Razor's Edge
as Mackenzie
1984
6.3
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
as Bullneck
1984
6.4
Sherlock Holmes
as John Turner
1984
8.1
Under the Hammer
as Les Stone
1984
0.0
Jamaica Inn
as Squire Bassatt
1983
2.7
Coming Out of the Ice
as Belov
1982
7.0
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
5.0
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Mr. Freeman
1981
6.4
Time Bandits
as Winston the Ogre
1981
6.6
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as Mr. Hugh Peter
1981
0.0
🎬
Fox
as Billy Fox
1980
1.0
Fox
as Billy Fox
1980
5.7
🎬
The Crucible
as Judge Hathorne
1980
1.0
Porridge
as Grouty
1979
6.7
The Danedyke Mystery
as Detective Inspector Burroughs
1979
0.0
Zulu Dawn
as QSM Bloomfield
1979
6.1
Henry VIII
as Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
1979
6.5
Freedom of the Dig
as Emerson
1978
0.0
🎬
Two Days That Shook the Branch
as Harold Praed
1978
0.0
The Doombolt Chase
1978
5.0
Valentino
as Rory O'Neil
1977
5.7
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
as Philby's Control
1977
4.5
Citizen Smith
as Dad
1977
6.3
Porridge: No Way Out
as Harry Grout
1975
0.0
🎬
The Snowdropper
as Sergeant
1975
0.0
The Sweeney
as Tony Kirby
1975
7.8
Hardness 10
as Mackintosh
1974
2.7
🎬
Intimate Reflections
1974
0.0
11 Harrowhouse
as Coglin
1974
5.6
Porridge
as Harry Grout
1974
8.1
Symptoms
as Brady
1974
6.2
Fall of Eagles
as Izvolsky
1974
6.9
Playhouse
as Hugh Peter
1974
7.0
Zodiac
as Richard Meade
1974
5.0
The Return
as Stephen Royds
1973
5.7
Massacre in Rome
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
1973
6.0
Malachi's Cove
as Mr. Gunliffe
1973
6.1
🎬
Black and Blue
as Miles Miles
1973
6.0
The MacKintosh Man
as Brunskill
1973
6.1
The Eyes Have It
as Anderson
1973
7.2
Thriller
as Anderson
1973
6.6
You and Me and Him
as Coster
1973
0.0
The Blockhouse
as Aufret
1973
6.3
The Pied Piper
as Bishop
1972
5.9
A Warning to the Curious
as Mr Paxton
1972
6.9
🎬
A Man without Friends
as Det. Insp. Crouch
1972
0.0
The Protectors
as Quin
1972
5.8
The Adventurer
as Roberts
1972
5.5
Savage Messiah
as Museum Attendant
1972
6.1
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Mr. Paxton
1971
7.4
Straw Dogs
as Tom Hedden
1971
7.1
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Dorrington
1971
7.4
The Persuaders!
as Lance Schubert
1971
7.6
Eyewitness
as Paul Grazzini
1970
6.2
Emma's Time
as Sladeck
1970
0.0
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1970
0.0
Taste of Excitement
as Inspector Malling
1969
5.9
Alfred the Great
as Burrud
1969
4.3
The Gold Robbers
as DCS Cradock
1969
6.7
A Twist of Sand
as Johann
1968
4.5
Hammerhead
as Hammerhead
1968
5.3
The Expert
as Richard Toller
1968
10.0
The Bofors Gun
as Sergeant Walker
1968
5.8
🎬
The Drummer and the Bloke
as Ron
1968
0.0
Man in a Suitcase
1967
7.0
The Man Outside
as Nikolai Volkov
1967
6.0
The Naked Runner
as Martin Slattery
1967
6.0
Great Expectations
as Jaggers
1967
0.0
The Informer
as David Janner
1966
0.0
Rotten to the Core
as Sir Henry Capell
1965
6.2
Fanatic
as Harry
1965
6.6
🎬
The Blackmailing of Mr. S
as Sgt. George Burtonshaw
1964
0.0
Theatre 625
as Ernst Torgler
1964
7.2
The Horse Without a Head
as Police Sergeant
1964
6.0
Smokescreen
as Roper
1964
7.2
The Victors
as Policeman
1963
6.2
🎬
Festival
as Gonnern
1963
8.0
🎬
Festival
as Schmitz
1963
8.0
Our Man At St Mark's
1963
0.0
The Punch and Judy Man
as Committee Man
1963
7.8
🎬
Crane
as Max Goddard
1963
0.0
The Saint
as Walter Devan
1962
7.4
I Thank a Fool
as Police Inspector (uncredited)
1962
5.5
The Devil's Agent
as Chief of Hungarian Police
1962
6.4
Richard the Lionheart
as Caspar
1962
0.0
Oliver Twist
1962
5.0
Oliver Twist
as Bill Sikes
1962
5.0
The Court Martial of Major Keller
as Purvey
1961
0.0
🎬
Two Living, One Dead
as John Kester
1961
7.0
The Avengers
as Jaeger
1961
7.7
Make Mine Mink
as Policeman in Car
1960
7.1
Village of the Damned
as P.C. Gobby
1960
7.2
🎬
Deadline Midnight
1960
0.0
Sapphire
as Detective Whitehead (uncredited)
1959
7.0
No Hiding Place
1959
3.7
Interpol Calling
as Inspector
1959
6.7
The 39 Steps
as 2nd Police Constable on Train (uncredited)
1959
6.2