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