Peter Howell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 25, 1919
- Died
- Apr 20, 2015 (aged 95)
- Place of birth
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Credits
- 61
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
Filmography
Perfect Strangers
2001TV
Ernest
Hippies
1999TV
Judge
Our Mutual Friend
1998TV
Fourth Guest, Third Guest
Princess Caraboo
1994Movie
Clerk of the Court
Shadowlands
1993Movie
College President
The Man Who Cried
1993Movie
Judge Hazeldon
My Sister-Wife
1992Movie
Harley Street Doctor
Jeeves and Wooster
1990TV
Magistrate
The Mountain and the Molehill
1989Movie
Churchill's Secretary
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Mr. Paul
South of the Border
1988TV
Sir Nigel Pearson
Bellman and True
1987Movie
The Bellman
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985Movie
Canon Verney
A.D.
1985TV
Atticus
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985Movie
Prison Governor
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
1984Movie
Dr. John Wycliffe
The Old Men at the Zoo
1983TV
Mr. Lascelles
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983TV
Rothschild
Dalgliesh
1983TV
Sir Charles Freeborn
Death of an Expert Witness
1983TV
Sir Charles Freeborn
'That Crazy Woman'
1980Movie
Counsel
Pride and Prejudice
1980TV
Sir William Lucas
The Errand
1980Movie
The Major
Scum
1979Movie
Governor
The Winter Ladies
1979Movie
Solicitor
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
Louis Kendall
Thomas & Sarah
1979TV
Lord Andover
The Mill on the Floss
1978TV
Uncle Glegg
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978Movie
Other H2A
The Professionals
1977TV
Howard
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977TV
Other H2A
Dickens of London
1976TV
Mr. Black
Bill Brand
1976TV
Venables
Dad
1976Movie
Consultant
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975TV
Judge Leonard Dover
Brassneck
1975Movie
Edward the Seventh
1975TV
Francis Knollys
The Sweeney
1975TV
Alan Sevier
Churchill's People
1974TV
Samson
Screamer
1974Movie
Ward
Playhouse
1974TV
Consultant
Heil Caesar
1973TV
Julius Caesar
Michael Regan
1971Movie
Gerald Frankiss
The Ten Commandments
1971TV
Michael Parkinson
Elizabeth R
1971TV
Lord Howard
The Champions
1968TV
Admiral Cox
The Prisoner
1967TV
Professor
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Geoff
Theatre 625
1964TV
Headmaster, Whale
Story Parade
1964TV
Dean Welch
Doctor Who
1963TV
Investigator
Espionage
1963TV
Professor Voekler
Incident at Midnight
1963Movie
Inspector Macready
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962TV
Mr Rayburn
Two Letter Alibi
1962Movie
Carlton
Raising the Wind
1961Movie
Prof. Lumb
The Hellfire Club
1961Movie
William Pitt - Earl of Chatham
No Kidding
1960Movie
Father of Angus
Watch Your Stern
1960Movie
Admiral's secretary
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960Movie
Dr. Blake
Somerset Maugham Hour
1960TV
Arthur Lowe