Peter Howell

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

Known For

Scum
Scum
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
Brassneck
Brassneck
Two Letter Alibi
Two Letter Alibi
Bellman and True
Bellman and True

Filmography

1998 Our Mutual Friend
as
1994 Princess Caraboo
as Clerk of the Court
1993 Shadowlands
as College President
1992 My Sister-Wife
as Harley Street Doctor
1990 Jeeves and Wooster
as Magistrate
1989 The Mountain and the Molehill
as Churchill's Secretary
1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mr. Paul
1988 South Of The Border
as Sir Nigel Pearson
1987 Bellman and True
as The Bellman
1985 John and Yoko: A Love Story
as Canon Verney
1985 A.D.
as Atticus
1985 Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Prison Governor
1984 John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
as Dr. John Wycliffe
1983 The Old Men at the Zoo
as Mr. Lascelles
1983 Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Rothschild
1983 Dalgliesh
as Sir Charles Freeborn
1980 'That Crazy Woman'
as Counsel
1980 Pride and Prejudice
as
1980 The Errand
as Major
1979 Scum
as Governor