Peter Howitt

Peter Howitt

1957-05-05 Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK 22 Credits

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 (...

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Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth

2018

Director

5.3
Directing

In a post-apocalyptic future, bounty hunter Attica Gage pursues a ruthless outlaw at the head of a dangerous criminal gang.

Reasonable Doubt

Reasonable Doubt

2014

Director

5.8
Directing

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

Radio Rebel

2012

Writer, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

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

Dangerous Parking

2007

as Noah Arkwright

5.2
Acting

Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally decides to try and defeat the many addictions that ...

Dangerous Parking

Dangerous Parking

2007

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

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

Laws of Attraction

2004

Director

5.8
Directing

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

Johnny English

Johnny English

2003

Additional Writing, Director

6.3
Directing

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

Antitrust

2001

Director

6.1
Directing

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

Sliding Doors

1998

as Cheeky Bloke

6.6
Acting

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

Sliding Doors

1998

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

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

Stone Cold

1997

as Shelter

2.5
Acting

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

Kiss and Tell

1996

as Graham Ives

5.2
Acting

An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.

Some Mother's Son

Some Mother's Son

1996

as SAS Leader

6.7
Acting

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

Killing Me Softly

1996

as Malcolm Thornton

1.0
Acting

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

6.3
Acting

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

In the Name of the Father

1993

as Remand Prison Officer

7.9
Acting

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

Royal Celebration

1993

as Jim

6.0
Acting

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

The Magician

1993

3.5
Acting

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

Party Time

1992

as Terry

5.0
Acting

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

5.2
Acting

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

Punters

1984

as Ansty

Acting

What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

Follow Me!

Follow Me!

1972

Set Decoration

7.5

A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.