Peter Howitt

Peter Howitt

Birthday: 1957-05-05

Place of Birth: Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

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 (2001), Johnny English (2003), Laws of Attraction (2004) and Dangerous Parking (2008) which he adapted from the novel by Stuart Browne, produced and directed as well as playing the lead role.

Movies

Royal Celebration
Royal Celebration

A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wed...

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Party Time
Party Time

At a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late....

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In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...

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Punters
Punters

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

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Sliding Doors
Sliding Doors

Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she run...

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Dangerous Parking
Dangerous Parking

Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally d...

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Killing Me Softly
Killing Me Softly

Sara Thornton was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of the 1989 murder of her vio...

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Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R &amp...

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Kiss and Tell
Kiss and Tell

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

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Eleven Men Against Eleven
Eleven Men Against Eleven

A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about th...

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Stone Cold
Stone Cold

A young boy, tired of his mother's abusive boyfriend, sets out on an adventure to London, meeting a ...

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The Magician
The Magician

For more than a year in the early 1980s, police at Scotland Yard watched the build-up of a potential...

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Some Mother's Son
Some Mother's Son

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby S...

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