Peter Howell
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
58 acting credits
Acting · 58
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Doctor Who
1963
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Professionals
1977
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
Playhouse
1974
The Sweeney
1975
ITV Playhouse
1967
Theatre 625
1964
The Champions
1968
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962
The Prisoner
1967
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Churchill's People
1974
Espionage
1963
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Dalgliesh
1983
A.D.
1985
Story Parade
1964
South of the Border
1988
Bill Brand
1976
Elizabeth R
1971
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Dickens of London
1976
Pride and Prejudice
1980
Edward the Seventh
1975
Somerset Maugham Hour
1960
Perfect Strangers
2001
Hippies
1999
The Ten Commandments
1971
Shadowlands
1993
The Old Men at the Zoo
1983
Scum
1979
The Mill on the Floss
1978
Heil Caesar
1973
Princess Caraboo
1994
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
Raising the Wind
1961
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985
Brassneck
1975
Bellman and True
1987
The Hellfire Club
1961
Two Letter Alibi
1962
The Mountain and the Molehill
1989
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
1984
No Kidding
1960
Watch Your Stern
1960
Michael Regan
1971
Screamer
1974
'That Crazy Woman'
1980
The Winter Ladies
1979
The Errand
1980
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
Dad
1976
My Sister-Wife
1992
Incident at Midnight
1963