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Peter Howell

Peter Howell
  • Name: Peter Howell
  • Birthday: 1919-10-25
  • Place of birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
  • Popularity: 4.589
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... Read More

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Title Release date
Princess Caraboo   as  Clerk of the Court 1994-09-16
Shadowlands   as  College President 1993-12-25
My Sister-Wife   as  Harley Street Doctor 1992-02-23
The Mountain and the Molehill   as  Churchill's Secretary 1989-10-15
Bellman and True   as  The Bellman 1987-11-12
John and Yoko: A Love Story   as  Canon Verney 1985-12-02
Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil   as  Prison Governor 1985-02-17
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star   as  Dr. John Wycliffe 1984-01-01
'That Crazy Woman'   as  Counsel 1980-02-21
The Errand   as  Major 1980-01-01
Scum   as  Governor 1979-09-12
The Winter Ladies   as  Solicitor 1979-05-15
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat   as  Other H2A 1978-01-18
Dad   as  Consultant 1976-04-23
Brassneck 1975-05-22
Screamer   as  Ward 1974-11-02
Michael Regan   as  Gerald Frankiss 1971-11-18
Two Letter Alibi   as  Carlton 1962-01-01
Raising the Wind   as  Prof. Lumb 1961-09-06
No Kidding   as  Father of Angus 1960-11-01
Watch Your Stern   as  Admiral's secretary 1960-10-14
Tarzan the Magnificent   as  Dr. Blake 1960-07-20