Peter Howitt
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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 05, 1957
Deathday: N/A
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Royal Celebration
1993-09-26
Royal Celebration
Overview: A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administration there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner. Meanwhile, there's the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-26
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Party Time
1992-11-17
Party Time
Overview: At a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-17
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In the Name of the Father
1993-12-12
In the Name of the Father
Overview: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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Punters
1984-11-27
Punters
Overview: What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-27
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Sliding Doors
1998-04-23
Sliding Doors
Overview: London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-23
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Dangerous Parking
2007-06-01
Dangerous Parking
Overview: Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally decides to try and defeat the many addictions that are destroying him, his career and the people who care for him. But Mother Nature has other tests of strength and character in store for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-01
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Kiss and Tell
1996-11-09
Kiss and Tell
Overview: An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Killing Me Softly
1996-07-07
Killing Me Softly
Overview: Sara Thornton was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of the 1989 murder of her violent and alcoholic husband. Thornton never denied the killing, but claimed it had been an accident during an argument.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-07
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Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989-12-27
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Overview: Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995-08-31
Eleven Men Against Eleven
Overview: A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season draws to a climax his club are staring into the abyss of relegation. Can new manager Ted save City from the drop?
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-31
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Stone Cold
1997-01-01
Stone Cold
Overview: A young boy, tired of his mother's abusive boyfriend, sets out on an adventure to London, meeting a friendly man. But there is fear on the streets and people are missing. Will Link be next?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Magician
1993-01-01
The Magician
Overview: For more than a year in the early 1980s, police at Scotland Yard watched the build-up of a potentially massive threat to the stability of British society – a flood of the most perfect counterfeit currency ever produced. Unchecked, the tide of fake money could have destabilized the economy, the Bank of England and even the Government.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Some Mother's Son
1996-09-13
Some Mother's Son
Overview: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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