Peter Howell

Acting

Peter Howell

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

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 h…

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Filmography

25 films
Shadowlands poster

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited…

Shadowlands

★ 6.9 1993

My Sister-Wife poster

Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her…

My Sister-Wife

★ 9.0 1992

The Errand poster

A soldier at an elite military institution is sent on a strange and increasingly nightmarish errand…

The Errand

★ 7.0 1980

Scum poster

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage ga…

Scum

★ 7.1 1979