Peter Vaughan
Born: 1923-04-04 in Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
Died: 2016-12-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm) was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on the stage. He is perhaps best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and its 1979 film adaptation. Other parts included a recurring role alongside Robert Lindsay in the sitcom Citizen Smith, Tom Hedden in Straw Dogs, Winston the Ogre in Time Bandits, Tom Franklin in Chancer and Mr. Stevens, Sr. in The Remains of the Day. His final role was as Maester Aemon in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2015).
Filmography
2015
- Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Aemon Targaryen
2011
- Game of Thrones as Maester Aemon
- Albatross as Grandpa
- Silk
2009
- Is Anybody There? as Bob
- The Antiques Rogue Show as George Greenhalgh
2007
- Death at a Funeral as Uncle Alfie
- Christmas at the Riviera as Glen
- Mobile as Grandad Stoan
2006
- Care as Archie
2005
- Malice Aforethought as Widdicombe
2004
- The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Edward Pretty
- Beauty as Mr. Robbins
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Bill Sellers
2003
- The Mother as Toots
- Margery and Gladys as Troy Gladwell
- Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher as Harry Grout
- Thursday the 12th as Edgar Bannister
2002
- The Jury as Michael Colchester
2001
- Lorna Doone as Sir Ensor Doone
- Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind as Harold King
- In Deep as Clayton Waddington
- Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Daddy Zoo
2000
- Hotel Splendide as Morton Blanche
- Longitude as George Graham
- Making Love as Barone Blau
- Longitude as George Graham
- Lorna Doone as Sir Ensor Doone
1999
- An Ideal Husband as Phipps
- Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters as Admiral Lord Hood
1998
- The Legend of 1900 as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
- Les Misérables as Bishop
- Hornblower as Admiral Hood
- Our Mutual Friend as Nicodemus 'Noddy' Boffin
1997
- Face as Sonny
1996
- The Moonstone as Gabriel Betteredge
- The Crucible as Giles Corey
- The Secret Agent as The Driver
- Our Friends in the North as Felix Hutchinson
1995
- The Choir as Frank Ashworth
- Oliver's Travels
1994
- Fatherland as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
- Hildegard as Abbot
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- Dandelion Dead as Dr. Hinks
1993
- The Remains of the Day as William Stevens
- Heart of Darkness as Director
- Circle of Deceit as Liam McAuley
- The Spot FX Man as Harold Listings
1991
- Prisoner of Honor as Gen. Mercier
- Murder Most Horrid as Doverson
1990
- Mountains of the Moon as Lord Houghton
- King of the Wind as Captain
- Chancer as Tom Franklyn
- Nightingales as The Inspector
1989
- Birds of a Feather as Monty
- Countdown to War as Hermann Goering
1988
- Codename: Kyril as Marshal Stanov
- The Bourne Identity as Fritz Koenig
- Game, Set, and Match as David Kimber-Hutchinson
- Codename: Kyril as Stanov
1987
- Coast to Coast as The Chiropodist
- When We Are Married as Alderman Joseph Helliwell
- Harry's Kingdom as Sid Harris
1986
- Casualty as Henry Lambert
- Haunted Honeymoon as Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.
- Season's Greetings as Harvey
- Monte Carlo as Pabst
1985
- Brazil as Mr. Helpmann
- Bleak House as Tulkinghorn
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as John Turner
- The Razor's Edge as Mackenzie
- Under the Hammer as Les Stone
- Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense as Bullneck
- Forbidden as Major Stauffel
- Czech Mate as Bullneck
1983
- Jamaica Inn as Squire Bassatt
1982
- Coming Out of the Ice as Belov
1981
- The French Lieutenant's Woman as Mr. Freeman
- A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as Mr. Hugh Peter
- Time Bandits as Winston the Ogre
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1980
- Fox as Billy Fox
- Fox as Billy Fox
- The Crucible as Judge Hathorne
1979
- Porridge as Grouty
- Henry VIII as Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
- Zulu Dawn as QSM Bloomfield
- The Danedyke Mystery as Detective Inspector Burroughs
1978
- Two Days That Shook the Branch as Harold Praed
- The Doombolt Chase
- Freedom of the Dig as Emerson
1977
- Valentino as Rory O'Neil
- Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Philby's Control
- Citizen Smith as Dad
1975
- The Sweeney as Tony Kirby
- Porridge: No Way Out as Harry Grout
- The Snowdropper as Sergeant
1974
- Playhouse as Hugh Peter
- 11 Harrowhouse as Coglin
- Symptoms as Brady
- Porridge as Harry Grout
- Fall of Eagles as Izvolsky
- Intimate Reflections
- Zodiac as Richard Meade
- Hardness 10 as Mackintosh
1973
- Massacre in Rome as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
- Thriller as Anderson
- The MacKintosh Man as Brunskill
- The Return as Stephen Royds
- The Blockhouse as Aufret
- Malachi's Cove as Mr. Gunliffe
- The Eyes Have It as Anderson
- You and Me and Him as Coster
- Black and Blue as Miles Miles
1972
- Savage Messiah as Museum Attendant
- The Protectors as Quin
- The Pied Piper as Bishop
- The Adventurer as Roberts
- A Warning to the Curious as Mr Paxton
- A Man without Friends as Det. Insp. Crouch
1971
- The Persuaders! as Lance Schubert
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Dorrington
- Straw Dogs as Tom Hedden
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Mr. Paxton
1970
- Eyewitness as Paul Grazzini
- Emma's Time as Sladeck
- The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1969
- Alfred the Great as Burrud
- The Gold Robbers as DCS Cradock
- Taste of Excitement as Inspector Malling
1968
- Hammerhead as Hammerhead
- The Expert as Richard Toller
- The Drummer and the Bloke as Ron
- The Bofors Gun as Sergeant Walker
- A Twist of Sand as Johann
1967
- The Man Outside as Nikolai Volkov
- Man in a Suitcase
- The Naked Runner as Martin Slattery
- Great Expectations as Jaggers
1966
- The Informer as David Janner
1965
- Rotten to the Core as Sir Henry Capell
- Fanatic as Harry
1964
- Theatre 625 as Ernst Torgler
- The Horse Without a Head as Police Sergeant
- The Blackmailing of Mr. S as Sgt. George Burtonshaw
- Smokescreen as Roper
1963
- The Victors as Policeman
- Festival as Gonnern
- The Punch and Judy Man as Committee Man
- Our Man At St Mark's
- Crane as Max Goddard
1962
- The Saint as Walter Devan
- Richard the Lionheart as Caspar
- I Thank a Fool as Police Inspector (uncredited)
- The Devil's Agent as Chief of Hungarian Police
- Oliver Twist
1961
- The Avengers as Jaeger
- Two Living, One Dead as John Kester
- The Court Martial of Major Keller as Purvey
1960
- Make Mine Mink as Policeman in Car
- Village of the Damned as P.C. Gobby
- Deadline Midnight
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Sapphire as Detective Whitehead (uncredited)
- Interpol Calling as Inspector
- The 39 Steps as 2nd Police Constable on Train (uncredited)