Peter Howell

Peter Howell was born on Oct 25, 1919 in UK. Peter Howell's big-screen debut came with Always a Bride directed by Ralph Smart in 1953, strarring Second Desk Clerk (uncredited). Peter Howell is known for Perfect Strangers directed by Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Gambon stars as Raymond and Lindsay Duncan as Alice. The upcoming new movie Peter Howell plays is The Libertine which will be released on Mar 10, 2006.

Peter Howell was an English actor born in London to Owen, a solicitor, and his wife Nora, née Mally, on 25 October 1919. He attended Winchester College and began studying Law at Christ Church, Oxford but left when he was called up for wartime service in 1939. Invalided out of the army in 1943 as a result of dysentery he became interested in acting through his sister Gillian, who was training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). At this point of the war RADA was looking for men to act in productions to replace those away on active service.Howell then joined the Old Vic Company which had relocated to the New Theatre, London following the bombing of it's own location. Whist there he gained valuable experience with small parts alongside the likes of Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Sybil Thorndike. This would provide the foundation for a stage and screen career that would eventually last for over fifty years.Since then he played many roles on stage and television, notably in long-running hospital soap 'Emergency Ward 10'. He was also an active member of Equity, the actors' union, and the Labour Party. Married to Susan , who died in 1992, he died on April 20 2015 and is survived by three daughters and a son.