Peter Vaughan
Acting • Born 1923-04-04 – Died 2016-12-06
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
177 credits
Brazil
Movie • 1985
Mr. Helpmann
Straw Dogs
Movie • 1971
Tom Hedden
The Remains of the Day
Movie • 1993
William Stevens
Death at a Funeral
Movie • 2007
Uncle Alfie
Les Misérables
Movie • 1998
Bishop
Fatherland
Movie • 1994
SS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
Jamaica Inn
Movie • 1983
Squire Bassatt
Village of the Damned
Movie • 1960
P.C. Gobby
An Ideal Husband
Movie • 1999
Phipps
The MacKintosh Man
Movie • 1973
Brunskill
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Movie • 1981
Mr. Hugh Peter
Emma's Time
Movie • 1970
Sladeck
Making Love
Movie • 2000
Barone Blau
Time Bandits
Movie • 1981
Winston the Ogre
Fanatic
Movie • 1965
Harry
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Movie • 1999
Admiral Lord Hood
Massacre in Rome
Movie • 1973
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Porridge
Movie • 1979
Grouty
Sapphire
Movie • 1959
Detective Whitehead (uncredited)
The Court Martial of Major Keller
Movie • 1961
Purvey
The Drummer and the Bloke
Movie • 1968
Ron
Longitude
Movie • 2000
George Graham
Care
Movie • 2006
Archie
The Blockhouse
Movie • 1973
Aufret
Alfred the Great
Movie • 1969
Burrud
I Thank a Fool
Movie • 1962
Police Inspector (uncredited)
The Mother
Movie • 2003
Toots
Christmas at the Riviera
Movie • 2007
Glen
Symptoms
Movie • 1974
Brady
A Warning to the Curious
Movie • 1972
Mr Paxton
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Movie • 2004
Edward Pretty
The Moonstone
Movie • 1996
Gabriel Betteredge
Season's Greetings
Movie • 1986
Harvey
Eyewitness
Movie • 1970
Paul Grazzini
The Naked Runner
Movie • 1967
Martin Slattery
King of the Wind
Movie • 1990
Captain
Hammerhead
Movie • 1968
Hammerhead
Coast to Coast
Movie • 1987
The Chiropodist
Smokescreen
Movie • 1964
Roper
The Return
Movie • 1973
Stephen Royds
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
Movie • 2001
Harold King
Margery and Gladys
Movie • 2003
Troy Gladwell
11 Harrowhouse
Movie • 1974
Coglin
Savage Messiah
Movie • 1972
Museum Attendant
Beauty
Movie • 2004
Mr. Robbins
The Man Outside
Movie • 1967
Nikolai Volkov
The Spot FX Man
Movie • 1993
Harold Listings
Rotten to the Core
Movie • 1965
Sir Henry Capell
A Twist of Sand
Movie • 1968
Johann
You and Me and Him
Movie • 1973
Coster
The Devil's Agent
Movie • 1962
Chief of Hungarian Police
Prisoner of Honor
Movie • 1991
Gen. Mercier
The Secret Agent
Movie • 1996
The Driver
The Legend of 1900
Movie • 1998
'Pops', the Shopkeeper
The Razor's Edge
Movie • 1984
Mackenzie
Taste of Excitement
Movie • 1969
Inspector Malling
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Movie • 2004
Bill Sellers
The Antiques Rogue Show
Movie • 2009
George Greenhalgh
Zulu Dawn
Movie • 1979
QSM Bloomfield
Lorna Doone
Movie • 2001
Sir Ensor Doone
Porridge: No Way Out
Movie • 1975
Harry Grout
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Movie • 1970
Two Days That Shook the Branch
Movie • 1978
Harold Praed
A Man without Friends
Movie • 1972
Det. Insp. Crouch
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Movie • 2003
Harry Grout
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Movie • 2015
Aemon Targaryen
Albatross
Movie • 2011
Grandpa
The Crucible
Movie • 1996
Giles Corey
Hildegard
Movie • 1994
Abbot
Face
Movie • 1997
Sonny
Fox
Movie • 1980
Billy Fox
Haunted Honeymoon
Movie • 1986
Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.
Is Anybody There?
Movie • 2009
Bob
The Danedyke Mystery
Movie • 1979
Detective Inspector Burroughs
The Punch and Judy Man
Movie • 1963
Committee Man
The Crucible
Movie • 1980
Judge Hathorne
Valentino
Movie • 1977
Rory O'Neil
Hotel Splendide
Movie • 2000
Morton Blanche
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Movie • 1981
Mr. Freeman
Henry VIII
Movie • 1979
Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
Codename: Kyril
Movie • 1988
Marshal Stanov
Forbidden
Movie • 1984
Major Stauffel
The Bofors Gun
Movie • 1968
Sergeant Walker
Circles of Deceit
Movie • 1993
Liam McAuley
Malachi's Cove
Movie • 1973
Mr. Gunliffe
Heart of Darkness
Movie • 1993
Director
The Horse Without a Head
Movie • 1964
Police Sergeant
Countdown to War
Movie • 1989
Hermann Goering
The Pied Piper
Movie • 1972
Bishop
Under the Hammer
Movie • 1984
Les Stone
When We Are Married
Movie • 1987
Alderman Joseph Helliwell
The Eyes Have It
Movie • 1973
Anderson
The Victors
Movie • 1963
Policeman
The 39 Steps
Movie • 1959
2nd Police Constable on Train (uncredited)
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
Movie • 2001
Daddy Zoo
Two Living, One Dead
Movie • 1961
John Kester
Coming Out of the Ice
Movie • 1982
Belov
Make Mine Mink
Movie • 1960
Policeman in Car
Thursday the 12th
Movie • 2003
Edgar Bannister
Mountains of the Moon
Movie • 1990
Lord Houghton
Czech Mate
Movie • 1984
Bullneck
Freedom of the Dig
Movie • 1978
Emerson
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Movie • 1977
Philby's Control
The Snowdropper
Movie • 1975
Sergeant
The Blackmailing of Mr. S
Movie • 1964
Sgt. George Burtonshaw
Harry's Kingdom
Movie • 1987
Sid Harris
Intimate Reflections
Movie • 1974
World of Westeros Ambient Video
Movie • 2025
Maester Aemon
Thriller
TV • 1973
Anderson
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Doverson
Porridge
TV • 1974
Harry Grout
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Jaeger
The Persuaders!
TV • 1971
Lance Schubert
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Arthur Wainwright
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Tony Kirby
Citizen Smith
TV • 1977
Dad
The Saint
TV • 1962
Walter Devan
Interpol Calling
TV • 1959
Inspector
The Doombolt Chase
TV • 1978
Fox
TV • 1980
Billy Fox
Our Friends in the North
TV • 1996
Felix Hutchinson
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Dorrington
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Izvolsky
The Expert
TV • 1968
Richard Toller
Man in a Suitcase
TV • 1967
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
TV • 1984
Bullneck
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
TV • 1981
Oliver Twist
TV • 1962
Deadline Midnight
TV • 1960
Dandelion Dead
TV • 1994
Dr. Hinks
Our Man At St Mark's
TV • 1963
Hornblower
TV • 1998
Admiral Hood
The Adventurer
TV • 1972
Roberts
The Jury
TV • 2002
Michael Colchester
Oliver's Travels
TV • 1995
Game, Set, and Match
TV • 1988
David Kimber-Hutchinson
In Deep
TV • 2001
Clayton Waddington
Mobile
TV • 2007
Grandad Stoan
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
Mr. Paxton
Birds of a Feather
TV • 1989
Monty
Lark Rise to Candleford
TV • 2008
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Maester Aemon
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
John Turner
Casualty
TV • 1986
Henry Lambert
Oliver's Travels
TV • 1995
Delaney
The Bourne Identity
TV • 1988
Fritz Koenig
The Choir
TV • 1995
Frank Ashworth
The Gold Robbers
TV • 1969
DCS Cradock
Lorna Doone
TV • 2000
Sir Ensor Doone
Malice Aforethought
TV • 2005
Widdicombe
Monte Carlo
TV • 1986
Pabst
Oliver Twist
TV • 1962
Bill Sikes
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Mr. Andrews
Nightingales
TV • 1990
The Inspector
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Quin
Bleak House
TV • 1985
Tulkinghorn
Hardness 10
TV • 1974
Mackintosh
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Hugh Peter
Richard the Lionheart
TV • 1962
Caspar
Crane
TV • 1963
Max Goddard
Festival
TV • 1963
Gonnern
Festival
TV • 1963
Schmitz
Black and Blue
TV • 1973
Miles Miles
Zodiac
TV • 1974
Richard Meade
Great Expectations
TV • 1967
Jaggers
Longitude
TV • 2000
George Graham
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1998
Nicodemus 'Noddy' Boffin
The Informer
TV • 1966
David Janner
Codename: Kyril
TV • 1988
Stanov
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Ernst Torgler
Chancer
TV • 1990
Tom Franklyn
The World of Hammer
TV • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Silk
TV • 2011
Michael Dodd
The Pallisers
TV • 1974
Mr Chaffanbrass
Chillers
TV • 1990
Winston Greeves
Jamaica Inn
TV • 1983
Squire Bassatt