
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

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Jeeves and Wooster

The Sweeney

Doctor Who

Our Mutual Friend

プリズナーNo.6

Screamer

The Professionals

Elizabeth R

Theatre 625

Hippies

Scum

The Errand

Incident at Midnight

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Playhouse

BBC2 Play of the Week

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Dalgliesh

Rumpole of the Bailey

Pride and Prejudice

Tales of the Unexpected

Dickens of London

Perfect Strangers

Bellman and True

Bill Brand

Edward the Seventh

Raising the Wind

The Champions

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Tarzan the Magnificent

Watch Your Stern

No Kidding

Princess Caraboo

John and Yoko: A Love Story

The Mill on the Floss

A.D.

Two Letter Alibi

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Churchill's People

My Sister-Wife

Brassneck

Michael Regan

'That Crazy Woman'

The Mountain and the Molehill

Dad

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat

South Of The Border

Heil Caesar