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Peter Howell
Kensington, London, England, UK
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…
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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
Filmography
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2001
Perfect Strangers
TV show Ernest
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1999
Hippies
TV show Judge
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1998
Our Mutual Friend
TV show Fourth Guest
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1994
Princess Caraboo
Movie Clerk of the Court
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1993
Shadowlands
Movie College President
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1993
The Man Who Cried
Movie Judge Hazeldon
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1992
My Sister-Wife
Movie Harley Street Doctor
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1990
Jeeves and Wooster
TV show Magistrate
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1989
The Mountain and the Molehill
Movie Churchill's Secretary
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1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV show Mr. Paul
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1988
South of the Border
TV show Sir Nigel Pearson
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1987
Bellman and True
Movie The Bellman
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1985
John and Yoko: A Love Story
Movie Canon Verney
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1985
A.D.
TV show Atticus
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1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Movie Prison Governor
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1984
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
Movie Dr. John Wycliffe
More credits
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1983
The Old Men at the Zoo
TV show Mr. Lascelles
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1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV show Rothschild
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1983
Dalgliesh
TV show Sir Charles Freeborn
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1983
Death of an Expert Witness
TV show Sir Charles Freeborn
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1980
'That Crazy Woman'
Movie Counsel
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1980
Pride and Prejudice
TV show Sir William Lucas
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1980
The Errand
Movie The Major
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1979
Scum
Movie Governor
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1979
The Winter Ladies
Movie Solicitor
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show Louis Kendall
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1979
Thomas & Sarah
TV show Lord Andover
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1978
The Mill on the Floss
TV show Uncle Glegg
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1978
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Movie Other H2A
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1977
The Professionals
TV show Howard
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1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV show Other H2A
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1976
Dickens of London
TV show Mr. Black
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1976
Bill Brand
TV show Venables
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1976
Dad
Movie Consultant
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1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV show Judge Leonard Dover
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1975
Brassneck
Movie
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1975
Edward the Seventh
TV show Francis Knollys
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1975
The Sweeney
TV show Alan Sevier
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1974
Churchill's People
TV show Samson
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1974
Screamer
Movie Ward
