Peter Howell

Acting

Born October 25, 1919, 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 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

• Perfect Strangers — Ernest
• Hippies — Judge
• Our Mutual Friend — Fourth Guest, Third Guest
• 1994Princess Caraboo — Clerk of the Court
• 1993Shadowlands — College President
• 1993The Man Who Cried — Judge Hazeldon
• 1992My Sister-Wife — Harley Street Doctor
• Jeeves and Wooster — Magistrate
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Mr. Paul
• 1989The Mountain and the Molehill — Churchill's Secretary
• South of the Border — Sir Nigel Pearson
• 1987Bellman and True — The Bellman
• A.D. — Atticus
• 1985Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil — Prison Governor
• 1985John and Yoko: A Love Story — Canon Verney
• 1984John Wycliffe: The Morning Star — Dr. John Wycliffe
• Dalgliesh — Sir Charles Freeborn
• Death of an Expert Witness — Sir Charles Freeborn
• Reilly: Ace of Spies — Rothschild
• The Old Men at the Zoo — Mr. Lascelles
• 1980'That Crazy Woman' — Counsel
• Pride and Prejudice — Sir William Lucas
• 1980The Errand — The Major
• 1979Scum — Governor
• Tales of the Unexpected — Louis Kendall
• 1979The Winter Ladies — Solicitor
• Thomas & Sarah — Lord Andover
• 1978Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat — Other H2A
• The Mill on the Floss — Uncle Glegg
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Other H2A
• The Professionals — Howard
• Bill Brand — Venables
• 1976Dad — Consultant
• Dickens of London — Mr. Black
• 1975Brassneck
• Edward the Seventh — Francis Knollys
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Judge Leonard Dover
• The Sweeney — Alan Sevier
• Churchill's People — Samson
• Playhouse — Consultant
• 1974Screamer — Ward
• Heil Caesar — Julius Caesar
• Elizabeth R — Lord Howard
• 1971Michael Regan — Gerald Frankiss
• The Ten Commandments — Michael Parkinson
• The Champions — Admiral Cox
• ITV Playhouse — Geoff
• The Prisoner — Professor
• Trapped — Bernard
• Story Parade — Dean Welch
• Theatre 625 — Headmaster, Whale
• Doctor Who — Investigator
• Espionage — Professor Voekler
• 1963Incident at Midnight — Inspector Macready
• Dr. Finlay's Casebook — Mr Rayburn
• 1962Two Letter Alibi — Carlton
• 1961Raising the Wind — Prof. Lumb
• 1961The Hellfire Club — William Pitt - Earl of Chatham
• 1960No Kidding — Father of Angus
• Somerset Maugham Hour — Arthur Lowe
• 1960Tarzan the Magnificent — Dr. Blake
• 1960Watch Your Stern — Admiral's secretary