Peter Howell
Acting • Born 1919-10-25 – Died 2015-04-20
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
57 credits
Scum
Movie • 1979
Governor
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Movie • 1985
Prison Governor
John and Yoko: A Love Story
Movie • 1985
Canon Verney
Watch Your Stern
Movie • 1960
Admiral's secretary
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
Movie • 1984
Dr. John Wycliffe
My Sister-Wife
Movie • 1992
Harley Street Doctor
Brassneck
Movie • 1975
Two Letter Alibi
Movie • 1962
Carlton
The Winter Ladies
Movie • 1979
Solicitor
Bellman and True
Movie • 1987
The Bellman
Michael Regan
Movie • 1971
Gerald Frankiss
No Kidding
Movie • 1960
Father of Angus
Raising the Wind
Movie • 1961
Prof. Lumb
Tarzan the Magnificent
Movie • 1960
Dr. Blake
The Errand
Movie • 1980
The Major
'That Crazy Woman'
Movie • 1980
Counsel
Shadowlands
Movie • 1993
College President
Screamer
Movie • 1974
Ward
Princess Caraboo
Movie • 1994
Clerk of the Court
The Mountain and the Molehill
Movie • 1989
Churchill's Secretary
Dad
Movie • 1976
Consultant
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Movie • 1978
Other H2A
Incident at Midnight
Movie • 1963
Inspector Macready
The Prisoner
TV • 1967
Professor
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Alan Sevier
The Professionals
TV • 1977
Howard
Elizabeth R
TV • 1971
Lord Howard
The Champions
TV • 1968
Admiral Cox
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
TV • 1962
Mr Rayburn
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Investigator
Jeeves and Wooster
TV • 1990
Magistrate
South Of The Border
TV • 1988
Sir Nigel Pearson
A.D.
TV • 1985
Atticus
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Mr. Paul
Bill Brand
TV • 1976
Venables
Dalgliesh
TV • 1983
Sir Charles Freeborn
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV • 1983
Rothschild
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Louis Kendall
Heil Caesar
TV • 1973
Julius Caesar
The Old Men at the Zoo
TV • 1983
Mr. Lascelles
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Consultant
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
Other H2A
The Ten Commandments
TV • 1971
Michael Parkinson
Dickens of London
TV • 1976
Mr. Black
Somerset Maugham Hour
TV • 1960
Arthur Lowe
Story Parade
TV • 1964
Dean Welch
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1998
Fourth Guest
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1998
Third Guest
Perfect Strangers
TV • 2001
Ernest
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV • 1975
Judge Leonard Dover
The Mill on the Floss
TV • 1978
Uncle Glegg
Edward the Seventh
TV • 1975
Francis Knollys
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Headmaster
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Whale
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
Samson
Hippies
TV • 1999
Judge
Pride and Prejudice
TV • 1980
Sir William Lucas