Peter Vaughan
Birthday: 1923-04-04
Place of Birth: Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
Biography: Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm) 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. Stevens, Sr. in The Remains of the Day. His final role was as Maester Aemon in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2015).
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Brazil
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...
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Straw Dogs
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...
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The Remains of the Day
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
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Death at a Funeral
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons i...
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Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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Fatherland
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Ger...
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Jamaica Inn
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pira...
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Village of the Damned
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child...
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An Ideal Husband
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this i...
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The MacKintosh Man
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be cau...
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A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, draw...
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Emma's Time
After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their...
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Making Love
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and st...
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Time Bandits
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. F...
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Fanatic
A young woman is terrorized by her former fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's deat...
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revoluti...
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Massacre in Rome
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military g...
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Porridge
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Be...
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Sapphire
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been pass...
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The Court Martial of Major Keller
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-mart...
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The Drummer and the Bloke
Alf and Jack, two labourers hired to work in a quarry,have decided to go on strike because of the de...
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Longitude
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...
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Care
'Mali' visits the homes of frail elderly people and provides the care they can no longer give to the...
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The Blockhouse
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are...
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Alfred the Great
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join ...
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I Thank a Fool
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license a...
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The Mother
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughte...
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Christmas at the Riviera
The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period....
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Symptoms
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there w...
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A Warning to the Curious
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across o...
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of ...
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The Moonstone
Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wi...
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Season's Greetings
Adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's black comedy about eight adults trying to have a happy family Christm...
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Eyewitness
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone oth...
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The Naked Runner
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an internation...
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King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil a...
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Hammerhead
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take...
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Coast to Coast
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by t...
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Smokescreen
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud....
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The Return
Stephen Royds arrives at an old house announcing that he intends to buy the property, much to the su...
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Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
While hiding his own rapidly deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the murder of a black ...
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Margery and Gladys
Haughty housewife Margery and her cleaner Gladys go on the run after mistakenly believing that they ...
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11 Harrowhouse
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large f...
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Savage Messiah
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an ...
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Beauty
Tom Fitzhenry is an ugly and reclusive aristocrat who lives on his own in a large mansion. He despai...
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The Man Outside
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of t...
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The Spot FX Man
The sound effects store for radio drama is a veritable museum of sound, but effects discs and CDs ar...
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Rotten to the Core
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have th...
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A Twist of Sand
A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. Aft...
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You and Me and Him
A man has a three-way conversation between himself, his inner thoughts and as a psychiatrist. Part o...
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The Devil's Agent
German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence exp...
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Prisoner of Honor
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscur...
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The Secret Agent
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, provid...
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The Legend of 1900
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raise...
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The Razor's Edge
An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himal...
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Taste of Excitement
A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the at...
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings...
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The Antiques Rogue Show
Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, ...
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Zulu Dawn
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....
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Lorna Doone
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Cath...
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Porridge: No Way Out
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape....
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After...
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Two Days That Shook the Branch
Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver....
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A Man without Friends
A man can't account for his movements when a woman is discovered strangled....
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Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge ...
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4...
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Albatross
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emili...
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The Crucible
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 w...
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Hildegard
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia R...
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Face
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 198...
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Fox
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in Sout...
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Haunted Honeymoon
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced ...
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Is Anybody There?
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician....
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The Danedyke Mystery
In the village of Danedyke St Mary the Reverend Septimus Treloar, a former Chief Inspector, investig...
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The Punch and Judy Man
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Un...
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The Crucible
An adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, concerning the Salem witch trials....
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Valentino
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...
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Hotel Splendide
A chef seeks reconciliation with her brother by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa....
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
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Henry VIII
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine a...
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Codename: Kyril
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reporte...
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Forbidden
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veteri...
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The Bofors Gun
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Will...
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Circle of Deceit
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, bu...
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Malachi's Cove
A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She suppor...
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Heart of Darkness
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t...
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The Horse Without a Head
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up...
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Countdown to War
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-German...
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The Pied Piper
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany...
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Under the Hammer
All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic...
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When We Are Married
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually m...
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The Eyes Have It
A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain ...
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The 39 Steps
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a sp...
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Make Mine Mink
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullne...
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Two Living, One Dead
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the superviso...
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The Victors
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...
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Coming Out of the Ice
A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name....
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Mountains of the Moon
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...
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Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues....
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Thursday the 12th
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his ...
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Czech Mate
Vicky's ex-husband, John, invites her on a trip to communist Prague. First John disappears, then her...
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Freedom of the Dig
After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the ...
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high...
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The Snowdropper
An escaped convict takes refuge in a remote Welsh cottage. Adapted by Alun Richards from his stage p...
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The Blackmailing of Mr. S
Stockbroker Mr Sparrow finds himself blackmailed by his secretary after fiddling the taxman plus mak...
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Harry's Kingdom
It's the most important night of the year for the dynamic salesmen of King Double Glazing - the com...
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Intimate Reflections
Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a youn...
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