Peter Hammond
Also Known As: Питер Хэммонд, Peter Hammond, Peter Charles Hammond Hill
Biography: Peter Charles Hammond Hill was an English actor and television director. Peter Charles Hammond Hill was born in Victoria, Central London. His father, Charles, was an art restorer and his mother, Ada, a nurse. After attending Harrow School of Art, he started work as a scenic artist at Sheffield Repertory Theatre. Following this, he turned to acting to "earn some cash", where he adopted the stage name of Peter Hammond. He first appeared in a West End production at the age of 17. Hammond made his film début in Waterloo Road (1945) and went on to carve a career playing handsome boy-next-door types throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, most notably as Peter Hawtrey in The Huggetts Trilogy – Here Come the Huggetts (1948), Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad (both 1949). [Source: Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: November 23, 1923
Deathday: October 12, 2011
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Gender: Male
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Confession
Overview: A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Morning Departure
Overview: The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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Alf's Baby
Overview: Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Father's Doing Fine
Overview: Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending birth and the love affairs of the other three daughters; Bicky, with eccentric student Roly; Gerda, married to artist Wilfred; and Catherine, in love with the landlord's son, Clifford Magill. In addition, the impoverished Lady Buckering is being courted by Dr. Drew. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-15
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They Knew Mr. Knight
Overview: After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-05
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Here Come the Huggetts
Overview: The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-02
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Vote for Huggett
Overview: A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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The Huggetts Abroad
Overview: Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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Holiday Camp
Overview: The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-05
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X the Unknown
Overview: Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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The Reluctant Widow
Overview: A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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Flannelfoot
Overview: Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps detective Adam expose the criminal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-01
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Fortune in Diamonds
Overview: As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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Fools Rush In
Overview: Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul turns out to be just the opposite when he arrives for Pamela's wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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Model for Murder
Overview: An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved in a jewel heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Fly Away Peter
Overview: Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different ways as their four children grow up, fall in love and make career choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-07
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It's Never Too Late
Overview: To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist and when her screenplay comes to the attention of a Hollywood producer, Laura is suddenly plunged into the big time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-07
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Helter Skelter
Overview: A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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The Crowded Day
Overview: One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Come Back Peter
Overview: There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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Waterloo Road
Overview: During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-05
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Spin a Dark Web
Overview: A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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