Peter Bowles
Peter Bowles (16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an English television and stage actor. He gained prominence for television dramas such as Callan: A Magnum for Schneider and I, Claudius. He is however, best remembered for his roles in sitcoms and television dramadies, including: Rumpole of the Bailey, Only When I Laugh, To the Manor Born, The Bounder, The Irish R.M., Lytton's Diary, Executive Stress and Perfect Scoundrels.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9863 |
| Birthday | 1936-10-16 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1966
Blow-Up
7.309/1408
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing...
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Blow-Up
2008
The Bank Job
6.856/2704
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood...
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The Bank Job
1973
The Offence
6.761/180
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
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The Offence
1972
Endless Night
6.1/67
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famo...
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Endless Night
1963
The Informers
6.846/13
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to wa...
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The Informers
1973
The Legend of Hell House
6.667/290
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House t...
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The Legend of Hell House
1992
Running Late
9/1
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his...
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Running Late
1998
Little White Lies
4/4
The tragic, unexpected death of David in a car-crash causes the cozy, safe life of gardener Beth to be thrown into complete chaos. In the aftermath, a...
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Little White Lies
2008
Freebird
5.667/18
A Rock and Roll Road Movie Comedy set in Wales
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Freebird
2011
Love's Kitchen
5.425/100
Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and...
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Love's Kitchen
1972
Shelley
7/1
A contemporary retelling of the Mary Shelley story, produced as a tribute to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley on the 150th anniversary of his death.
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Shelley
1969
The Assassination Bureau
6.7/95
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are c...
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The Assassination Bureau
1972
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
4.438/16
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's vo...
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1977
Stigma
5.575/20
A young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a super...
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Stigma
1970
Eyewitness
6.4/18
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
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Eyewitness
1980
The Masqueraders
0/0
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig...
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The Masqueraders
2001
In Love and War
7.2/5
After being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured...
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In Love and War
1965
Three Hats for Lisa
6/2
French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of h...
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Three Hats for Lisa
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
0/0
A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and in...
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
2014
Lilting
6.947/133
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language,...
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Lilting
1993
Passport to Murder
7/2
After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller....
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Passport to Murder
1965
Dead Man's Chest
6/4
Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
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Dead Man's Chest
1995
The Steal
5.857/14
A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment compa...
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The Steal
1969
Taste of Excitement
6.2/7
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...
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Taste of Excitement
1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
6/2
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
2015
Peterman
6.7/5
The death of his safe cracking grandfather has landed Johnny as the only one left alive who can open a safe for a degenerate crew of violent gangsters...
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Peterman
2015
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
6/1
Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Sco...
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words
1966
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
5.375/8
The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
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Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
1966
Don't Utter a Note
0/0
Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount...
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Don't Utter a Note
1973
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Murder Must Advertise
1/1
Just before copywriter Victor Dean fell to his death, he wrote to his supervisors at Pym's Publicity Ltd., hinting at improprieties within the agency....
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Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Murder Must Advertise
1965
Some Lapse of Time
7/1
Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his doorstep...
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Some Lapse of Time
2016
Murder: Lost Weekend
0/0
Wealthy American philanthropist Arla Breckman has been missing from the affluent district of Belgravia in central London. Her lover, wayward aristocra...
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Murder: Lost Weekend
1989
Try This One for Size
7.35/10
Genial and deceptively tentative insurance company detective Tom Lepski sets out to track down a valuable medieval Russian icon, stolen by master thie...
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Try This One for Size
2008
Ballet Shoes
6.3/276
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But...
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Ballet Shoes
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.2/79
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamo...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
2005
Colour Me Kubrick
5.71/88
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very littl...
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Colour Me Kubrick
1977
For the Love of Benji
5.777/56
Benji gets lost after a flight overseas and becomes a stray in Athens, Greece. He then tries everyday to reunite with his family while mysterious peop...
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For the Love of Benji
1967
A Magnum for Schneider
9/1
Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services.
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A Magnum for Schneider
2018
Together
0/0
An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home.
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Together
1977
The Disappearance
5.604/24
The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with he...
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The Disappearance
2002
One of the Hollywood Ten
6.25/8
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
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One of the Hollywood Ten
1964
The Crunch
0/0
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom...
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The Crunch
1969
Laughter in the Dark
4.286/7
Swinging London in the 1960s. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
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Laughter in the Dark
2021
Off the Rails
6/18
Now in their 50’s, three friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilli...
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Off the Rails
2024
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
0/0
A feature-length special retrospective of one of Britain's most beloved sitcoms, with new and archival interviews and footage examining the production...
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To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
1980
Rumpole's Return
5.818/11
A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.
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Rumpole's Return
1985
Talking Proper
0/0
Accents and dialects provoke strong prejudices and reactions. In a film that examines why this should be, broadcaster Janet Street -Porter, Scottish a...
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Talking Proper
1973
A Thinking Man as Hero
0/0
A television producer encounters personal problems while making a documentary about the philosopher Wittgenstein.
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A Thinking Man as Hero
2019
Great in Britain: The Movie
0/0
Great in Britain: The Movie is a life-affirming, alternative and razor-sharp British comedy about three old school friends discovering what really mat...
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