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
- Silk as Michael Dodd
- Albatross as Grandpa
2009
- Is Anybody There? as Bob
- The Antiques Rogue Show as George Greenhalgh
2007
- Death at a Funeral as Uncle Alfie
- Mobile as Grandad Stoan
- Christmas at the Riviera as Glen
2006
- Care as Archie
2005
- Malice Aforethought as Widdicombe
2004
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Bill Sellers
- The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Edward Pretty
- Beauty as Mr. Robbins
2003
- The Mother as Toots
- Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher as Harry Grout
- Thursday the 12th as Edgar Bannister
- Margery and Gladys as Troy Gladwell
2002
- The Jury as Michael Colchester
2001
- In Deep as Clayton Waddington
- Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Daddy Zoo
- Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind as Harold King
- Lorna Doone as Sir Ensor Doone
2000
- The 10th Kingdom as Wilfred Peep
- Longitude as George Graham
- Lorna Doone as Sir Ensor Doone
- Longitude as George Graham
- The Thing about Vince as Ray
- Making Love as Barone Blau
- Hotel Splendide as Morton Blanche
1999
- An Ideal Husband as Phipps
- Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters as Admiral Lord Hood
1998
- Hornblower as Admiral Hood
- The Legend of 1900 as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
- Les Misérables as Bishop
- Our Mutual Friend as Nicodemus 'Noddy' Boffin
1997
- Face as Sonny
1996
- Our Friends in the North as Felix Hutchinson
- The Crucible as Giles Corey
- The Secret Agent as The Driver
- The Moonstone as Gabriel Betteredge
1995
- Oliver's Travels
- The Choir as Frank Ashworth
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- Fatherland as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
- Dandelion Dead as Dr. Hinks
- Heart of Darkness as Director
- Hildegard as Abbot
1993
- The Remains of the Day as William Stevens
- Circles of Deceit as Liam McAuley
- The Spot FX Man as Harold Listings
1992
- Heartbeat as Arthur Wainwright
1991
- Murder Most Horrid as Doverson
- Prisoner of Honor as Gen. Mercier
1990
- Chillers as Winston Greeves
- Chancer as Tom Franklyn
- Nightingales as The Inspector
- Mountains of the Moon as Lord Houghton
- King of the Wind as Captain
1989
- Birds of a Feather as Monty
- Countdown to War as Hermann Goering
1988
- War and Remembrance as Kurt Zeitzler
- The Bourne Identity as Fritz Koenig
- Game, Set, and Match as David Kimber-Hutchinson
- Strife as John Anthony
- Codename: Kyril as Stanov
1987
- When We Are Married as Alderman Joseph Helliwell
- Coast to Coast as The Chiropodist
- Harry's Kingdom as Sid Harris
1986
- Casualty as Henry Lambert
- Monte Carlo as Pabst
- Haunted Honeymoon as Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.
- Season's Greetings as Harvey
1985
- Brazil as Mr. Helpmann
- Bleak House as Tulkinghorn
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as John Turner
- Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense as Bullneck
- The Razor's Edge as Mackenzie
- Forbidden as Major Stauffel
- Czech Mate as Bullneck
- Under the Hammer as Les Stone
1983
- Jamaica Inn as Squire Bassatt
- Jamaica Inn as Squire Bassatt
1982
- Coming Out of the Ice as Belov
1981
- Time Bandits as Winston the Ogre
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
- The French Lieutenant's Woman as Mr. Freeman
- A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as Mr. Hugh Peter
- The Crucible as Judge Hathorne
1979
- Zulu Dawn as QSM Bloomfield
- Porridge as Grouty
- Henry VIII as Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
- The Danedyke Mystery as Detective Inspector Burroughs
1978
- The Doombolt Chase
- Freedom of the Dig as Emerson
- Two Days That Shook the Branch as Harold Praed
1977
- Citizen Smith as Dad
- Premiere as Emerson
- Valentino as Rory O'Neil
- Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Philby's Control
1975
- The Sweeney as Tony Kirby
- Against the Crowd as Don Macintyre
- Porridge: No Way Out as Harry Grout
- The Snowdropper as Sergeant
1974
- Playhouse as Hugh Peter
- The Pallisers as Mr Chaffanbrass
- Fall of Eagles as Izvolsky
- Porridge as Harry Grout
- Zodiac as Richard Meade
- Hardness 10 as Mackintosh
- Intimate Reflections
- 11 Harrowhouse as Coglin
- Symptoms as Brady
1973
- Thriller as Anderson
- Black and Blue as Miles Miles
- The MacKintosh Man as Inspector Brunskill
- Massacre in Rome as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
- The Eyes Have It as Anderson
- The Blockhouse as Aufret
- You and Me and Him as Coster
- Malachi's Cove as Mr. Gunliffe
- The Return as Stephen Royds
1972
- The Protectors as Quin
- The Adventurer as Roberts
- Late Night Theatre as The Interrogator
- No Exit as Calder
- The Pied Piper as Bishop
- Savage Messiah as Museum Attendant
- 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
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Mr. Paxton
- Straw Dogs as Tom Hedden
1970
- Big Brother as John Cliveden
- Eyewitness as Paul Grazzini
- The Cellar and the Almond Tree
- Emma's Time as Sladeck
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Albert
- The Gold Robbers as DCS Cradock
- Alfred the Great as Burrud
- Taste of Excitement as Inspector Malling
1968
- The Expert as Richard Toller
- Treasure Island as Long John Silver
- A Twist of Sand as Johann
- The Drummer and the Bloke as Ron
- Hammerhead as Hammerhead
- The Bofors Gun as Sergeant Walker
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Harold Praed
- Man in a Suitcase
- Great Expectations as Jaggers
- This Way for Murder as Insp. Frant
- The Naked Runner as Martin Slattery
- The Man Outside as Nikolai Volkov
1966
- The Informer as David Janner
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Coster
- Knock on Any Door as 'The Boot' Winter
- Fanatic as Harry
- Rotten to the Core as Sir Henry Capell
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Ron
- 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
- Espionage as Waring
- Festival as Gonnern
- Our Man At St Mark's
- Crane as Max Goddard
- The Victors as Policeman
- The Punch and Judy Man as Committee Man
1962
- The Saint as Walter Devan
- Richard the Lionheart as Caspar
- Oliver Twist as Bill Sikes
- The Devil's Agent as Chief of Hungarian Police
- I Thank a Fool as Police Inspector (uncredited)
1961
- The Avengers as Jaeger
- A Chance of Thunder as Yardley
- Two Living, One Dead as John Kester
- The Court Martial of Major Keller as Purvey
1960
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Sgt. George Burtenshaw
- Village of the Damned as P.C. Gobby
- Deadline Midnight
- Make Mine Mink as Policeman in Car
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Interpol Calling as Inspector
- The 39 Steps as 2nd Police Constable on Train (uncredited)
- Sapphire as Detective Whitehead (uncredited)
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Third Journalist
1955
- ITV Play of the Week as Anthony Sellman