Biography
Peter Howitt is an English actor and film director. He grew up in Eltham, London and Bromley, Kent, Peter used to be a part of the Priory Players in the Priory behind Christ Church, Eltham. He has two children, Luke (born 1990) and Amy (born 2008). He currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. He first found success playing Joey Boswell in the British TV series Bread. In 1998 he wrote and directed his first film, Sliding Doors (1998). Since then he has directed several films, including AntiTrust (...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Scorched Earth
2018
Director
In a post-apocalyptic future, bounty hunter Attica Gage pursues a ruthless outlaw at the head of a dangerous criminal gang.
Reasonable Doubt
2014
Director
When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who...
Radio Rebel
2012
Writer, Director
High school senior Tara is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of he...
Dangerous Parking
2007
as Noah Arkwright
Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally decides to try and defeat the many addictions that ...
Dangerous Parking
2007
Director, Screenplay
Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally decides to try and defeat the many addictions that ...
Laws of Attraction
2004
Director
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
Johnny English
2003
Additional Writing, Director
A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown...
Antitrust
2001
Director
A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatc...
Sliding Doors
1998
as Cheeky Bloke
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apa...
Sliding Doors
1998
Director, Writer
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apa...
Stone Cold
1997
as Shelter
A young boy, tired of his mother's abusive boyfriend, sets out on an adventure to London, meeting a friendly man. But there is fear on the streets and...
Kiss and Tell
1996
as Graham Ives
An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.
Some Mother's Son
1996
as SAS Leader
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA pr...
Killing Me Softly
1996
as Malcolm Thornton
Sara Thornton was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of the 1989 murder of her violent and alcoholic husband. Thornton never denied ...
Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995
as Steve Denton
A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football...
In the Name of the Father
1993
as Remand Prison Officer
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in ...
Royal Celebration
1993
as Jim
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administrati...
The Magician
1993
For more than a year in the early 1980s, police at Scotland Yard watched the build-up of a potentially massive threat to the stability of British soci...
Party Time
1992
as Terry
At a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late.
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989
as Topless
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families t...
Punters
1984
as Ansty
What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
Follow Me!
1972
Set Decoration
A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.