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

Known For: Acting

Born: Kensington, London, England, UK, 1919-10-25

Died: 2015-04-20

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Tarzan the Magnificent	Dr. Blake	55
2	1960	Watch Your Stern	Admiral's secretary	57
3	1960	No Kidding	Father of Angus	60
4	1961	Raising the Wind	Prof. Lumb	66
5	1962	Two Letter Alibi	Carlton	50
6	1971	Michael Regan	Gerald Frankiss	0
7	1974	Screamer	Ward	67
8	1975	Brassneck		0
9	1976	Dad	Consultant	0
10	1978	Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat	Other H2A	0
11	1979	The Winter Ladies	Solicitor	0
12	1979	Scum	Governor	71
13	1980	The Errand	Major	70
14	1980	'That Crazy Woman'	Counsel	0
15	1984	John Wycliffe: The Morning Star	Dr. John Wycliffe	100
16	1985	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	Prison Governor	45
17	1985	John and Yoko: A Love Story	Canon Verney	57
18	1987	Bellman and True	The Bellman	65
19	1989	The Mountain and the Molehill	Churchill's Secretary	0
20	1992	My Sister-Wife	Harley Street Doctor	0
21	1993	Shadowlands	College President	69
22	1994	Princess Caraboo	Clerk of the Court	54

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Dr. Finlay's Casebook	Mr Rayburn	60
2	1963	Doctor Who	Investigator	79
3	1967	The Prisoner	Professor	78
4	1968	The Champions	Admiral Cox	61
5	1971	Elizabeth R	Lord Howard	74
6	1975	The Sweeney	Alan Sevier	77
7	1976	Bill Brand	Venables	63
8	1977	The Professionals	Howard	74
9	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Louis Kendall	67
10	1980	Pride and Prejudice		68
11	1983	Dalgliesh	Sir Charles Freeborn	69
12	1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies	Rothschild	70
13	1985	A.D.	Atticus	49
14	1988	South Of The Border	Sir Nigel Pearson	0
15	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Mr. Paul	81
16	1990	Jeeves and Wooster	Magistrate	80
17	1998	Our Mutual Friend		77