Peter Howell
Born: 1919-10-25 in Kensington, London, England, UK
Died: 2015-04-20
Known For: Acting
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 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
2001
- Perfect Strangers as Ernest
1998
- Our Mutual Friend as Fourth Guest
1994
- Princess Caraboo as Clerk of the Court
1993
- Shadowlands as College President
1992
- My Sister-Wife as Harley Street Doctor
1990
- Jeeves and Wooster as Magistrate
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mr. Paul
- The Mountain and the Molehill as Churchill's Secretary
1988
- South Of The Border as Sir Nigel Pearson
1987
- Bellman and True as The Bellman
1985
- A.D. as Atticus
- John and Yoko: A Love Story as Canon Verney
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Prison Governor
1984
- John Wycliffe: The Morning Star as Dr. John Wycliffe
1983
- Dalgliesh as Sir Charles Freeborn
- Reilly: Ace of Spies as Rothschild
- The Old Men at the Zoo as Mr. Lascelles
1980
- The Errand as The Major
- 'That Crazy Woman' as Counsel
- Pride and Prejudice
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Louis Kendall
- Scum as Governor
- The Winter Ladies as Solicitor
1978
- The Mill on the Floss as Uncle Glegg
- Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat as Other H2A
1977
- The Professionals as Howard
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Other H2A
1976
- Dad as Consultant
- Bill Brand as Venables
- Dickens of London as Mr. Black
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Judge Leonard Dover
- The Sweeney as Alan Sevier
- Brassneck
- Edward the Seventh as Francis Knollys
1974
- Playhouse as Consultant
- Screamer as Ward
- Churchill's People as Samson
1973
- Heil Caesar as Julius Caesar
1971
- Elizabeth R as Lord Howard
- The Ten Commandments as Michael Parkinson
- Michael Regan as Gerald Frankiss
1968
- The Champions as Admiral Cox
1967
- The Prisoner as Professor
1964
- Theatre 625 as Headmaster
- Story Parade as Dean Welch
1963
- Doctor Who as Investigator
- Incident at Midnight as Inspector Macready
1962
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook as Mr Rayburn
- Two Letter Alibi as Carlton
1961
- Raising the Wind as Prof. Lumb
1960
- No Kidding as Father of Angus
- Watch Your Stern as Admiral's secretary
- Tarzan the Magnificent as Dr. Blake
- Somerset Maugham Hour as Arthur Lowe