Highest rated movie: Scum (1979)
Lowest rated movie: Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
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Looking for reviews of Peter Howell movies? Cinafilm has a total of 650 reviews across 7 movies.
Movies starring Peter Howell have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
Scum - released in 1979 - is Peter Howell's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 259 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Peter Howell is Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil - released in 1985 - with a score of 48% based on 3 reviews.
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.
Peter Howell has acted in films with Tim McMullan, Leslie Phillips, Julian Firth and Walter Sparrow.
Peter Howell has worked with these film directors: Gerald Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Richard Loncraine and Michael Austin.
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