Peter Howell
Actor
Born October 25, 1919 in 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
Princess Caraboo
Clerk of the Court
Shadowlands
College President
My Sister-Wife
Harley Street Doctor
Jeeves and Wooster
Magistrate
The Mountain and the Molehill
Churchill's Secretary
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mr. Paul
South of the Border
Sir Nigel Pearson
Bellman and True
The Bellman
John and Yoko: A Love Story
Canon Verney
A.D.
Atticus
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Prison Governor
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
Dr. John Wycliffe
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Rothschild
Dalgliesh
Sir Charles Freeborn
Death of an Expert Witness
Sir Charles Freeborn
'That Crazy Woman'
Counsel
Pride and Prejudice
Sir William Lucas
The Errand
The Major
Scum
Governor
Tales of the Unexpected
Louis Kendall
The Mill on the Floss
Uncle Glegg
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Other H2A
The Professionals
Howard
BBC2 Play of the Week
Other H2A
Dickens of London
Mr. Black
Bill Brand
Venables
Dad
Consultant
Rumpole of the Bailey
Judge Leonard Dover
Brassneck
Edward the Seventh
Francis Knollys
The Sweeney
Alan Sevier
Churchill's People
Samson
Screamer
Ward
Playhouse
Consultant
Heil Caesar
Julius Caesar
Michael Regan
Gerald Frankiss
Elizabeth R
Lord Howard
The Champions
Admiral Cox
The Prisoner
Professor
ITV Playhouse
Geoff
Theatre 625
Headmaster
Doctor Who
Investigator
Espionage
Professor Voekler
Incident at Midnight
Inspector Macready
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Mr Rayburn
Two Letter Alibi
Carlton
Raising the Wind
Prof. Lumb
The Hellfire Club
William Pitt - Earl of Chatham
No Kidding
Father of Angus
Watch Your Stern
Admiral's secretary
Tarzan the Magnificent
Dr. Blake