
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
Acting (22 movies)

Scum
1979

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985

John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985

Watch Your Stern
1960

John Wycliffe: The Morning Star
1984

My Sister-Wife
1992

Brassneck
1975

Two Letter Alibi
1962

Bellman and True
1987

Michael Regan
1971

No Kidding
1960

Raising the Wind
1961

Tarzan the Magnificent
1960

The Errand
1980

'That Crazy Woman'
1980

Shadowlands
1993

Screamer
1974

Princess Caraboo
1994

The Mountain and the Molehill
1989

Dad
1976

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978

Incident at Midnight
1963
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