Peter Vaughan
Acting
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).
Born: April 4, 1923
Place of Birth: Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
Known For
The Expert
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
In Deep
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infiltrate society’s underbelly and stop crime at its core. As they put their lives on the line, Liam tries desperately to hold his marriage together, while Gareth keeps his personal life a mystery.
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 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.
Game of Thrones
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Lark Rise to Candleford
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.
The Legend of 1900
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
Porridge
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
Dandelion Dead
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
The Punch and Judy Man
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
Filmography
as Aemon Targaryen
as Grandpa
as Maester Aemon
as Michael Dodd
as Bob
as Glen
as Uncle Alfie
as Grandad Stoan
as Widdicombe
as Edward Pretty
as Bill Sellers
as Harry Grout
as Toots
as Troy Gladwell
as Edgar Bannister
as Michael Colchester
as Daddy Zoo
as Sir Ensor Doone
as Clayton Waddington
as Sir Ensor Doone
as Morton Blanche
as Barone Blau
as George Graham
as George Graham
as Admiral Lord Hood
as Phipps
as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
as Admiral Hood
as Bishop
as Nicodemus 'Noddy' Boffin
as Sonny
as Gabriel Betteredge
as Giles Corey
as The Driver
as Felix Hutchinson
as Delaney
as Frank Ashworth
as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
as Dr. Hinks
as Self (archive footage)
as Abbot
as Harold Listings
as William Stevens
as Director
as Arthur Wainwright
as Mr. Andrews
as Doverson
as Gen. Mercier
as Captain
as Tom Franklyn
as The Inspector
as Lord Houghton
as Winston Greeves
as Monty
as Hermann Goering
as David Kimber-Hutchinson
as Fritz Koenig
as Stanov
as Marshal Stanov
as Alderman Joseph Helliwell
as Sid Harris
as The Chiropodist
as Harvey
as Pabst
as Henry Lambert
as Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.
as Tulkinghorn
as Mr. Helpmann
as Major Stauffel
as Bullneck
as Mackenzie
as Bullneck
as John Turner
as Les Stone
as Squire Bassatt
as Belov
as Mr. Freeman
as Winston the Ogre
as Mr. Hugh Peter
as Billy Fox
as Grouty
as Detective Inspector Burroughs
as QSM Bloomfield
as Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
as Emerson
as Rory O'Neil
as Philby's Control
as Dad
as Harry Grout
as Tony Kirby
as Mackintosh
as Coglin
as Harry Grout
as Brady
as Izvolsky
as Hugh Peter
as Richard Meade
as Mr Chaffanbrass
as Stephen Royds
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
as Mr. Gunliffe
as Brunskill
as Anderson
as Anderson
as Coster
as Aufret
as Bishop
as Mr Paxton
as Quin
as Roberts
as Museum Attendant
as Mr. Paxton
as Tom Hedden
as Dorrington
as Lance Schubert
as Paul Grazzini
as Sladeck
as Inspector Malling
as Burrud
as DCS Cradock
as Johann
as Hammerhead
as Richard Toller
as Sergeant Walker
as Nikolai Volkov
as Martin Slattery
as Jaggers
as David Janner
as Sir Henry Capell
as Harry
as Ernst Torgler
as Police Sergeant
as Roper
as Policeman
as Committee Man
as Walter Devan
as Police Inspector (uncredited)
as Chief of Hungarian Police
as Caspar
as Bill Sikes
as Purvey
as Jaeger
as Policeman in Car
as P.C. Gobby
as Detective Whitehead (uncredited)
as Inspector
as 2nd Police Constable on Train (uncredited)