Peter Howell

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Oct 25, 1919 (105 years old)
Death date
Apr 20, 2015

Peter Howell

Known For

Our Mutual Friend
1h 30m
TV Show 1998

Our Mutual Friend

Epic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal. Lizzie and her father scrape a living on the banks of the Thames until one day they recover a body that links them with another world.

The Mountain and the Molehill
1h 15m
Movie 1989

The Mountain and the Molehill

It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.

Bellman and True
2h 2m
Movie 1987

Bellman and True

Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last of the robbers. But now they've traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.

John and Yoko: A Love Story
2h 26m
Movie 1985

John and Yoko: A Love Story

Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

A.D.
2h 0m
TV Show 1985

A.D.

A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.

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

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