People
Peter Howell
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
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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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 |