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
Scum
(Governor)
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
(Prison Governor)
John and Yoko: A Love Story
(Canon Verney)
Watch Your Stern
(Admiral's secretary)
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
(Dr. John Wycliffe)
My Sister-Wife
(Harley Street Doctor)
Brassneck
Two Letter Alibi
(Carlton)
The Winter Ladies
(Solicitor)
Bellman and True
(The Bellman)
Michael Regan
(Gerald Frankiss)
No Kidding
(Father of Angus)
Raising the Wind
(Prof. Lumb)
Tarzan the Magnificent
(Dr. Blake)
The Errand
(The Major)
'That Crazy Woman'
(Counsel)
Shadowlands
(College President)
Screamer
(Ward)
Princess Caraboo
(Clerk of the Court)
The Mountain and the Molehill
(Churchill's Secretary)
Dad
(Consultant)
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
(Other H2A)
Incident at Midnight
(Inspector Macready)
The Prisoner
(Professor)
The Sweeney
(Alan Sevier)
The Professionals
(Howard)
Elizabeth R
(Lord Howard)
Pride and Prejudice
The Champions
(Admiral Cox)
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
(Mr Rayburn)
Doctor Who
(Investigator)
Jeeves and Wooster
(Magistrate)
South Of The Border
(Sir Nigel Pearson)
A.D.
(Atticus)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(Mr. Paul)
Bill Brand
(Venables)
Dalgliesh
(Sir Charles Freeborn)
Reilly: Ace of Spies
(Rothschild)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Louis Kendall)
Heil Caesar
(Julius Caesar)
The Old Men at the Zoo
(Mr. Lascelles)
Playhouse
(Consultant)
BBC2 Play of the Week
(Other H2A)
The Ten Commandments
(Michael Parkinson)
Dickens of London
(Mr. Black)
Somerset Maugham Hour
(Arthur Lowe)
Story Parade
(Dean Welch)
Our Mutual Friend
(Fourth Guest)
Our Mutual Friend
(Third Guest)
Perfect Strangers
(Ernest)
Rumpole of the Bailey
(Judge Leonard Dover)
The Mill on the Floss
(Uncle Glegg)
Edward the Seventh
(Francis Knollys)
Theatre 625
(Headmaster)
Theatre 625
(Whale)
Churchill's People
(Samson)