Biography
Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016) was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on the stage. He is perhaps best known for his role as Grouty in the sitcom Porridge and its 1979 film adaptation. Other parts included a recurring role alongside Robert Lindsay in the sitcom Citizen Smith, Tom Hedden in Straw Dogs, Winston the Ogre in Time Bandits, Tom Franklin in Chancer and Mr...
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Complete Filmography
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Aemon Targaryen
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...
Albatross
2011
as Grandpa
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that th...
Is Anybody There?
2009
as Bob
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
The Antiques Rogue Show
2009
as George Greenhalgh
Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, who created fake paintings, antiques and sculpture...
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
as Glen
The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
Death at a Funeral
2007
as Uncle Alfie
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an ...
Care
2006
as Archie
'Mali' visits the homes of frail elderly people and provides the care they can no longer give to themselves. But when he enters the home of a new clie...
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
as Edward Pretty
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likenes...
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Bill Sellers
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge suc...
Beauty
2004
as Mr. Robbins
Tom Fitzhenry is an ugly and reclusive aristocrat who lives on his own in a large mansion. He despairs of ever having a relationship with a woman... u...
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
2003
as Harry Grout
Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional foota...
The Mother
2003
as Toots
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Margery and Gladys
2003
as Troy Gladwell
When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a hous...
Thursday the 12th
2003
as Edgar Bannister
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their propert...
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
2001
as Daddy Zoo
A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.
Lorna Doone
2001
as Sir Ensor Doone
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the thron...
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
2001
as Harold King
While hiding his own rapidly deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the murder of a black youth leader.
Hotel Splendide
2000
as Morton Blanche
A chef seeks reconciliation with her brother by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa.
Making Love
2000
as Barone Blau
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not...
Longitude
2000
as George Graham
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999
as Admiral Lord Hood
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
An Ideal Husband
1999
as Phipps
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London w...
The Legend of 1900
1998
as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside worl...
Les Misérables
1998
as Bishop
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
Face
1997
as Sonny
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-be...
The Moonstone
1996
as Gabriel Betteredge
Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective...
The Crucible
1996
as Giles Corey
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
The Secret Agent
1996
as The Driver
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a la...
Fatherland
1994
as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. ...
Hildegard
1994
as Abbot
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Age...
The Spot FX Man
1993
as Harold Listings
The sound effects store for radio drama is a veritable museum of sound, but effects discs and CDs are more cost effective. The old storekeeper feels h...
The Remains of the Day
1993
as William Stevens
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with...
Circle of Deceit
1993
as Liam McAuley
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-act...
Heart of Darkness
1993
as Director
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Prisoner of Honor
1991
as Gen. Mercier
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment...
King of the Wind
1990
as Captain
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...
Mountains of the Moon
1990
as Lord Houghton
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...
Countdown to War
1989
as Hermann Goering
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until...
Codename: Kyril
1988
as Marshal Stanov
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark...
When We Are Married
1987
as Alderman Joseph Helliwell
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth ...
Coast to Coast
1987
as The Chiropodist
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gain...
Season's Greetings
1986
as Harvey
Adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's black comedy about eight adults trying to have a happy family Christmas and failing dismally.
Experiment IV
1986
as The General
A top secret government project seeks to harness sound as the ultimate weapon. But the power they unleash proves to be far beyond their control.
Haunted Honeymoon
1986
as Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech...
Brazil
1985
as Mr. Helpmann
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...
Forbidden
1984
as Major Stauffel
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the hom...
Czech Mate
1984
as Bullneck
Vicky's ex-husband, John, invites her on a trip to communist Prague. First John disappears, then her passport. Vicky finds herself alone and penniless...
The Razor's Edge
1984
as Mackenzie
An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he dis...
Under the Hammer
1984
as Les Stone
All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the ...
Jamaica Inn
1983
as Squire Bassatt
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and...
Coming Out of the Ice
1982
as Belov
A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as Mr. Freeman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...
Time Bandits
1981
as Winston the Ogre
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purl...
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981
as Mr. Hugh Peter
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason
Fox
1980
as Billy Fox
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
The Crucible
1980
as Judge Hathorne
An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials.
Porridge
1979
as Grouty
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an es...
The Danedyke Mystery
1979
as Detective Inspector Burroughs
In the village of Danedyke St Mary the Reverend Septimus Treloar, a former Chief Inspector, investigates mysterious goings on linked to his church.
Zulu Dawn
1979
as QSM Bloomfield
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Henry VIII
1979
as Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powe...
Freedom of the Dig
1978
as Emerson
After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but th...
Two Days That Shook the Branch
1978
as Harold Praed
Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver.
Valentino
1977
as Rory O'Neil
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977
as Philby's Control
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Porridge: No Way Out
1975
as Harry Grout
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
The Snowdropper
1975
as Sergeant
An escaped convict takes refuge in a remote Welsh cottage. Adapted by Alun Richards from his stage play and shown only on BBC Wales.
11 Harrowhouse
1974
as Coglin
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen...
Symptoms
1974
as Brady
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it ...
The MacKintosh Man
1973
as Brunskill
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate ...
The Return
1973
as Stephen Royds
Stephen Royds arrives at an old house announcing that he intends to buy the property, much to the surprise of its solitary occupant, caretaker Mrs Par...
Massacre in Rome
1973
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of...
Malachi's Cove
1973
as Mr. Gunliffe
A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as...
The Eyes Have It
1973
as Anderson
A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the a...
You and Me and Him
1973
as Coster
A man has a three-way conversation between himself, his inner thoughts and as a psychiatrist. Part of the BBC Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
The Blockhouse
1973
as Aufret
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies ...
The Pied Piper
1972
as Bishop
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter...
A Warning to the Curious
1972
as Mr Paxton
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according ...
A Man without Friends
1972
as Det. Insp. Crouch
A man can't account for his movements when a woman is discovered strangled.
Savage Messiah
1972
as Museum Attendant
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is...
Straw Dogs
1971
as Tom Hedden
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David an...
Eyewitness
1970
as Paul Grazzini
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
Emma's Time
1970
as Sladeck
After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship.
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1970
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed ...
Taste of Excitement
1969
as Inspector Malling
A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young gi...
Alfred the Great
1969
as Burrud
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land...
A Twist of Sand
1968
as Johann
A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly bei...
Hammerhead
1968
as Hammerhead
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
The Bofors Gun
1968
as Sergeant Walker
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
The Drummer and the Bloke
1968
as Ron
Alf and Jack, two labourers hired to work in a quarry,have decided to go on strike because of the degrading nature of the job.
The Man Outside
1967
as Nikolai Volkov
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded...
The Naked Runner
1967
as Martin Slattery
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to ...
Rotten to the Core
1965
as Sir Henry Capell
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl...
Fanatic
1965
as Harry
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
The Blackmailing of Mr. S
1964
as Sgt. George Burtonshaw
Stockbroker Mr Sparrow finds himself blackmailed by his secretary after fiddling the taxman plus making unwanted sexual advances.
The Horse Without a Head
1964
as Police Sergeant
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,...
Smokescreen
1964
as Roper
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
The Victors
1963
as Policeman
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to G...
The Punch and Judy Man
1963
as Committee Man
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who g...
I Thank a Fool
1962
as Police Inspector (uncredited)
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
The Devil's Agent
1962
as Chief of Hungarian Police
German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his...
The Court Martial of Major Keller
1961
as Purvey
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Co...
Two Living, One Dead
1961
as John Kester
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one o...
Make Mine Mink
1960
as Policeman in Car
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of...
Village of the Damned
1960
as P.C. Gobby
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children h...
Sapphire
1959
as Detective Whitehead (uncredited)
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspec...
The 39 Steps
1959
as 2nd Police Constable on Train (uncredited)
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.