Peter Vaughan

Peter Vaughan

April 4, 1923 · 103 years old

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 in…

Known For

32 titles
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Brazil

Brazil

1985 · 2h 12m · Movie

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

7.8
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Death at a Funeral

Death at a Funeral

2007 · 1h 30m · Movie

Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.

7.3
3
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

1993 · 2h 14m · Movie

A butler sacrifices love for duty in 1930s England.

7.8
4
Time Bandits

Time Bandits

1981 · 1h 50m · Movie

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

6.9
5
The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900

1998 · 2h 49m · Movie

A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.

8.0
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Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

1971 · 1h 53m · Movie

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

7.4
7
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

1998 · 2h 14m · Movie

Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.

7.4
8
The Crucible

The Crucible

1996 · 2h 4m · Movie

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

6.8
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Village of the Damned

Village of the Damned

1960 · 1h 17m · Movie

In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

7.3
10
An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

1999 · 1h 37m · Movie

London 1895: Cabinet minister, Sir Chiltern, and bachelor, Lord Goring, are victims of scheming women.

6.8
11
The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman

1981 · 2h 4m · Movie

Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.

6.9
12
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

2004 · 2h 2m · Movie

The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies.

6.9
13
Haunted Honeymoon

Haunted Honeymoon

1986 · 1h 22m · Movie

Two radio voice actors are getting married. Larry has fits of fear. A shrink needs 36 hours to scare him to death and cure him - during a family reunion at a scary family castle.

5.6
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Fatherland

Fatherland

1994 · 1h 46m · Movie

In April 1964, more than twenty years after the Nazis won World War II, S.S. officer Xavier March uncovers a plot to eliminate the attendees of the Wannsee Conference so that Germany can establish better relations with the U.S.

6.4
15
The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge

1984 · 2h 8m · Movie

He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

6.4
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Albatross

Albatross

2011 · 1h 30m · Movie

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

6.3
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The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

1973 · 1h 38m · Movie

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.

6.3
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Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

2009 · 1h 34m · Movie

A lonely boy who lives in his parents' home for the elderly explores his obsession with the afterlife through his friendship with an aging magician.

6.6
19
Face

Face

1997 · 1h 45m · Movie

In the face of demise in his values, a socialist in England decides to form a gang and rob banks for a living.

6.6
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The Mother

The Mother

2003 · 1h 52m · Movie

A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

6.7
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Mountains of the Moon

Mountains of the Moon

1990 · 2h 16m · Movie

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.

7.1
22
Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War

Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War

1999 · 1h 40m · Movie

Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

7.9
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Porridge

Porridge

1979 · 1h 33m · Movie

Fletcher is ordered to arrange a prisoner vs celebrity football game, unaware it's a diversion for an escape. Fletcher and cellmate Lennie accidentally discover the plan and must break back into prison to avoid punishment.

7.2
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Die! Die! My Darling!

Die! Die! My Darling!

1965 · 1h 37m · Movie

A young woman is terrorized by her deceased fiancé's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.

6.3
25
The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

1996 · 1h 35m · Movie

Verloc lives in London 1886 with a pretty wife and her retarded brother. He's an agent for the Russian embassy. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years - something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.

5.6
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Valentino

Valentino

1977 · 2h 8m · Movie

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide.

6.1
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A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious

1972 · 50m · Movie

An archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister.

7.2
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Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome

1973 · 1h 50m · Movie

Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.

6.5
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Hotel Splendide

Hotel Splendide

2000 · 1h 38m · Movie

A chef (Toni Collette) seeks reconciliation with her brother (Daniel Craig) by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa.

6.2
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The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

1972 · 1h 26m · Movie

In 1349, while the Black Plague threatens Germany, the town of Hamelin hires a wandering pied piper (Donovan) to lure rats away with his magic pipe, but then refuses to pay for his services, causing him to lure the town's children...

6.3
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Sudden Terror

Sudden Terror

1970 · 1h 32m · Movie

Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young bystander even under the spectre of martia...

6.1
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Coming Out of the Ice

Coming Out of the Ice

1982 · 1h 44m · Movie

Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture cu...

6.5