Peter Howell

Peter Howell adalah seorang aktor panggung dan layar Inggris. Meskipun kehidupannya relatif istimewa (dia dididik di Winchester dan di Christ Church, Oxford, meninggalkan yang terakhir ketika dipanggil untuk bertugas sebagai petugas di Brigade Senapan selama Perang Dunia II) Howell adalah anggota aktif Partai Buruh seumur hidup dan berkampanye untuk sejumlah masalah sosial. Salah satu perannya yang paling dikenang adalah peran gubernur dalam Scum versi film Alan Clarke tahun 1979, yang ia ambil karena ingin menyoroti isu-isu mengenai sistem pemasyarakatan. Dia juga merupakan anggota lama Klub Kriket Marylebone, dan menentang rencana tur kriket Inggris 1968-69 di Afrika Selatan era apartheid, yang akhirnya dibatalkan. Dia membantu mengumpulkan dana untuk pembangunan Watermans Arts Centre dekat rumahnya di Chiswick, London barat. Howell meninggal di Denville Hall, rumah bagi pensiunan aktor di Northwood, London, pada 20 April 2015 setelah sakit sebentar, pada usia 95 tahun

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