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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

161

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-04-04

Deathday

2016-12-06 (93 years old)

Place of Birth

Wem, Shropshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Peter Ewart Ohm

Peter Vaughan

Biography

Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016) 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). (wikipedia)

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Acting

2015

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Aemon Targaryen

2011		Albatross as Grandpa
2011		Game of Thrones as Maester Aemon
2011		Silk

2009		Is Anybody There? as Bob
2009		The Antiques Rogue Show as George Greenhalgh

2008

Lark Rise to Candleford

2007		Christmas at the Riviera as Glen
2007		Death at a Funeral as Uncle Alfie
2007		Mobile as Grandad Stoan

2006

Care as Archie

2005

Malice Aforethought as Widdicombe

2004		The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Edward Pretty
2004		The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Bill Sellers
2004		Beauty as Mr. Robbins

2003		Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher as Harry Grout
2003		The Mother as Toots
2003		Margery and Gladys as Troy Gladwell
2003		Thursday the 12th as Edgar Bannister

2002

The Jury as Michael Colchester

2001		Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Daddy Zoo
2001		Lorna Doone as Sir Ensor Doone
2001		In Deep as Clayton Waddington
2001		Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind as Harold King

2000		Lorna Doone as Sir Ensor Doone
2000		Hotel Splendide as Morton Blanche
2000		The 10th Kingdom as Wilfred Peep
2000		Making Love as Barone Blau
2000		Longitude as George Graham

1999		Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters as Admiral Lord Hood
1999		An Ideal Husband as Phipps

1998		The Legend of 1900 as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
1998		Hornblower as Admiral Hood
1998		Les Misérables as Bishop
1998		Our Mutual Friend as Mr. Boffin

1997

Face as Sonny

1996		The Moonstone as Gabriel Betteredge
1996		The Crucible as Giles Corey
1996		The Secret Agent as The Driver
1996		Our Friends in the North as Felix Hutchinson

1995		Oliver's Travels
1995		Oliver's Travels as Delaney
1995		The Choir as Frank Ashworth

1994		Fatherland as SS-Oberstgruppenführer Artur Nebe
1994		Dandelion Dead as Dr. Hinks
1994		Hildegard as Abbot

1993		The Spot FX Man as Harold Listings
1993		The Remains of the Day as William Stevens
1993		Circle of Deceit as Liam McAuley
1993		Heart of Darkness as Director

1992		Heartbeat as Arthur Wainwright
1992		Heartbeat as Mr. Andrews

1991		Murder Most Horrid as Doverson
1991		Prisoner of Honor as Gen. Mercier

1990		King of the Wind as Captain
1990		Chillers as Winston Greeves
1990		Nightingales as The Inspector
1990		Mountains of the Moon as Lord Houghton

1989		Birds of a Feather as Monty
1989		Countdown to War as Hermann Goering

1988		Game, Set, and Match as David Kimber-Hutchinson
1988		The Bourne Identity as Fritz Koenig
1988		Codename: Kyril as Marshal Stanov

1987		When We Are Married as Alderman Joseph Helliwell
1987		Coast to Coast as The Chiropodist

1986		Season's Greetings as Harvey
1986		Monte Carlo as Pabst
1986		Experiment IV as The General
1986		Casualty as Henry Lambert
1986		Haunted Honeymoon as Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.

1985		Bleak House as Tulkinghorn
1985		Forbidden as Major Stauffel
1985		Brazil as Mr. Helpmann

1984		Czech Mate as Bullneck
1984		The Razor's Edge as Mackenzie
1984		Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense as Bullneck
1984		Sherlock Holmes as John Turner
1984		Under the Hammer as Les Stone

1983

Jamaica Inn as Squire Bassatt

1982

Coming Out of the Ice as Belov

1981		Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981		The French Lieutenant's Woman as Mr. Freeman
1981		Time Bandits as Winston the Ogre
1981		A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as Mr. Hugh Peter

1980		Fox as Billy Fox
1980		Fox as Billy Fox
1980		The Crucible as Judge Hathorne

1979		Porridge as Grouty
1979		The Danedyke Mystery as Detective Inspector Burroughs
1979		Zulu Dawn as QSM Bloomfield
1979		Henry VIII as Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester

1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978		Freedom of the Dig as Emerson
1978		Two Days That Shook the Branch as Harold Praed
1978		The Doombolt Chase

1977		Valentino as Rory O'Neil
1977		Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Philby's Control
1977		Citizen Smith as Dad

1975		Porridge: No Way Out as Harry Grout
1975		The Sweeney as Tony Kirby

1974		Hardness 10 as Mackintosh
1974		11 Harrowhouse as Coglin
1974		Porridge as Harry Grout
1974		Symptoms as Brady
1974		Fall of Eagles as Izvolsky

1973		The MacKintosh Man as Brunskill
1973		The Return as Stephen Royds
1973		Massacre in Rome as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
1973		Malachi's Cove as Mr. Gunliffe
1973		The Eyes Have It as Anderson
1973		Thriller as Anderson
1973		You and Me and Him as Coster
1973		The Blockhouse as Aufret

1972		The Pied Piper as Bishop
1972		A Warning to the Curious as Mr Paxton
1972		A Man without Friends as Det. Insp. Crouch
1972		The Protectors as Quin
1972		The Adventurer as Roberts
1972		Savage Messiah as Museum Attendant

1971		A Ghost Story for Christmas as Mr. Paxton
1971		Straw Dogs as Tom Hedden
1971		The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Dorrington
1971		The Persuaders! as Lance Schubert

1970		Eyewitness as Paul Grazzini
1970		Emma's Time as Sladeck
1970		The Cellar and the Almond Tree

1969		Taste of Excitement as Inspector Malling
1969		Alfred the Great as Burrud
1969		The Gold Robbers as DCS Cradock

1968		A Twist of Sand as Johann
1968		Hammerhead as Hammerhead
1968		The Expert as Richard Toller
1968		The Bofors Gun as Sergeant Walker
1968		The Drummer and the Bloke as Ron

1967		Man in a Suitcase
1967		The Man Outside as Nikolai Volkov
1967		The Naked Runner as Martin Slattery
1967		Great Expectations as Mr. Jaggers

1966

The Informer as David Janner

1965		Rotten to the Core as Sir Henry Capell
1965		Fanatic as Harry

1964		The Horse Without a Head as Police Sergeant
1964		Smokescreen as Roper

1963		The Victors as Policeman
1963		Our Man At St Mark's
1963		The Punch and Judy Man as Committee Man

1962		The Saint as Walter Devan
1962		I Thank a Fool as Police Inspector (uncredited)
1962		The Devil's Agent as Chief of Hungarian Police
1962		Oliver Twist
1962		Oliver Twist as Bill Sikes

1961		The Court Martial of Major Keller as Purvey
1961		Two Living, One Dead as John Kester
1961		The Avengers as Jaeger

1960		Make Mine Mink as Policeman in Car
1960		Village of the Damned as P.C. Gobby
1960		Deadline Midnight

1959		Sapphire as Detective Whitehead (uncredited)
1959		No Hiding Place
1959		Interpol Calling as Inspector
1959		The 39 Steps as 2nd Police Constable on Train (uncredited)