Peter Howell
Acting
Born 1919-10-25
Died 2015-04-20
Kensington, London, England, UK
59 credits
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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
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Filmography
Acting
58 credits
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Doctor Who
Playhouse
Tales of the Unexpected
The Professionals
Theatre 625
ITV Playhouse
Rumpole of the Bailey
The Sweeney
Jeeves and Wooster
The Champions
The Prisoner
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
BBC2 Play of the Week
Churchill's People
Story Parade
Dalgliesh
Espionage
Dickens of London
A.D.
Elizabeth R
Edward the Seventh
Bill Brand
South of the Border
Pride and Prejudice
Somerset Maugham Hour
Princess Caraboo
Perfect Strangers
The Ten Commandments
Hippies
Scum
Our Mutual Friend
Shadowlands
The Old Men at the Zoo
The Mill on the Floss
Death of an Expert Witness
Heil Caesar
Bellman and True
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
The Hellfire Club
No Kidding
Tarzan the Magnificent
John and Yoko: A Love Story
Raising the Wind
Dad
Watch Your Stern
The Mountain and the Molehill
My Sister-Wife
The Winter Ladies
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Michael Regan
Screamer
Incident at Midnight
Two Letter Alibi
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
'That Crazy Woman'
The Errand
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