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Years active
  
1982–present

Education
  
Drama Studio London

Spouse
  
Lorraine Howitt (m. 2001)


Role
  
Name
  
Peter Howitt

Children
  
Amy Howitt, Luke Howitt

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Born
  
5 May 1957 (age 67) (
1957-05-05
)

Residence
  
Occupation
  
Movies
  
Sliding Doors, Johnny English, Reasonable Doubt

TV shows
  
Bread, Defying Gravity, How We Used To Live, Civvies

Similar People
  
Douglas McFerran, John Lynch, Zara Turner, Ben Miller, John Hannah

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Peter Howitt (; born 5 May 1957) is an English actor and film director.

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Early life

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Peter Howitt was born on May 5th 1957, son of father Frank Howitt who was a renowned Fleet Street journalist, who in 1963 broke the infamous Profumo Scandal by getting the exclusive story from call girl Christine Keeler on their illicit affair.

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Howitt grew up in Eltham, London and Bromley, Kent.. He was educated at Wybourne Primary School in New Eltham and Colfe's Grammar School in Lee, South London. While in Eltham he was a member of the Priory Players amateur dramatics group. Howitt spent a brief time at Paisley Grammar School in Paisley, Scotland in 1970. He studied at the Drama Studio London in 1976.

Career

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Howitt's first notable TV role was in the 1984-85 series of Yorkshire Television's long-running programme for schools How We Used To Live, where he starred alongside Brookside actress Sue Jenkins. However, he is much better known for playing Joey Boswell in the BBC 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), Dangerous Parking (2008) which he adapted from the novel by Stuart Browne, produced and directed as well as playing the lead role, He also directed the 2014 film Reasonable Doubt - the film was shot in Winnipeg, Canada in December 2012.

Personal life

Howitt has two children, Luke (born 1990) and Amy (born 2008). He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Films

  • Sliding Doors (1998) – writer/director
  • AntiTrust (2001) – director
  • Johnny English (2003) – director (credited)/writer (Uncredited)
  • Laws of Attraction (2004) – director (credited)/writer (uncredited)
  • Dangerous Parking (2008) – writer/director/producer/actor (Noah Arkwright)
  • Reasonable Doubt (2014) - director
  • Scorched Earth (2017) - director
  • Television

  • Radio Rebel (2012) – director
  • Defying Gravity (2009) – actor/director
  • Highlander: The Series (1993) – Christoph Kuyler (S01E14)
  • Civvies (1992) – actor; a Lynda La Plante mini series about Falklands War veterans.
  • Coasting – actor
  • Bread (1986–1988) – actor
  • How We Used to Live (1984) - actor
  • Stone Cold (1998) - actor
  • Awards

  • European Film Award (1998) – European Screenwriter (Sliding Doors)
  • Empire Awards (1999) – Best British Director (Sliding Doors)
  • Shanghai International Film Festival (2001) – Jin Jue Award for Best Director (AntiTrust)
  • Shanghai International Film Festival (2001) – Jin Jue Award for Best Film (AntiTrust)
  • Tokyo International Film Festival (2007) – Best Director (Dangerous Parking)
  • References

    Peter Howitt Wikipedia


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