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Noel Howlett was an English actor, principally remembered as the incompetent headmaster, Morris Cromwell, in the ITV 1970s cult television programme Please Sir!. He was the subject of infatuation by Deputy Head Doris Ewell, played by Joan Sanderson.
Birth Name
Arthur Noel Howlett
Born
Monday, 22 December 1902
Died
Friday, 26 October 1984
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Roll Over Beethoven | School Governor | 1985 |
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star | Archbishop Sudbury | 1984 |
Mr. Selkie | Grandpa Ross | 1979 |
The Duchess of Duke Street | Sterling | 1976 |
The Good Life | Mr. Wakeley | 1975 |
Happy Ever After | Lucy's suitor | 1974 |
Jackanory Playhouse | Vizier | 1972 |
Sykes | Neighbour | 1972 |
Pardon My Genie | The Vicar / Mr. Luke | 1972 |
Please Sir! | Mr. Cromwell | 1971 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Roll Over Beethoven | School Governor | 1985 |
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star | Archbishop Sudbury | 1984 |
Mr. Selkie | Grandpa Ross | 1979 |
The Duchess of Duke Street | Sterling | 1976 |
The Good Life | Mr. Wakeley | 1975 |
Happy Ever After | Lucy's suitor | 1974 |
Jackanory Playhouse | Vizier | 1972 |
Sykes | Neighbour | 1972 |
Pardon My Genie | The Vicar / Mr. Luke | 1972 |
Please Sir! | Mr. Cromwell | 1971 |
Some Will, Some Won't | Endicott | 1970 |
The Bushbaby | Rev. Barlow | 1969 |
Please Sir! | Mr. Cromwell | 1968 |
The First Lady | Watkinson | 1968 |
Vanity Fair | Mr. Sedley | 1967 |
Quatermass and the Pit | Abbey Librarian | 1967 |
Man in a Suitcase | Rev. Simon Blanding | 1967 |
Sexton Blake | Sir Miles Murray | 1967 |
The Forsyte Saga | Vicar | 1967 |
Softly Softly | Yeardley | 1966 |
Out of the Unknown | Dr. Harsham | 1965 |
Mogul | Sir Thomas Hewitt | 1965 |
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | Bishop | 1965 |
Secret Agent | Dr. McKenna | 1964 |
The Wednesday Play | Lord Chief Justice / Dr. Evans | 1964 |
Diary of a Young Man | Chief Lord Justice | 1964 |
Woman of Straw | Assistant Solicitor | 1964 |
The Sentimental Agent | Mr. Giddy | 1963 |
The Kiss of the Vampire | Father Xavier | 1963 |
Murder at the Gallop | Mr. Trundell | 1963 |
Tomorrow at Ten | Brain Specialist | 1963 |
Lawrence of Arabia | Vicar at St. Paul's | 1962 |
Call Oxbridge 2000 | Dr. Richard Graham | 1961 |
Ghost Squad | Rev. J. Crichton | 1961 |
Victim | Patterson | 1961 |
Mary Had a Little... | Pottle | 1961 |
Jango | Harkness | 1961 |
The Avengers | Prof. Rushton | 1961 |
Maigret | Comeliau | 1959 |
The Battle of the Sexes | Mr. White | 1960 |
The Four Just Men | President | 1959 |
No Hiding Place | Mannering | 1959 |
The Scapegoat | Dr. Aloin | 1959 |
Serious Charge | Rev. Peters / Mr Peters | 1959 |
Quatermass and the Pit | Vicar Gilpin | 1958 |
Nowhere to Go | Uncle Tom Howard | 1958 |
Lust for Life | Commissioner Van Den Berghe | 1956 |
Armchair Theatre | Mr. Finnemore / Mr. Face Sr. | 1956 |
Spin a Dark Web | Judge | 1956 |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Phillipe Verdaux | 1956 |
ITV Play of the Week | Arthur Forrest / Bernard / David Lancaster / Dr. Libbard / Mr. Harding / Mr. Witherspoon | 1955 |
ITV Television Playhouse | Manservant / Doctor | 1955 |
This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
Dixon of Dock Green | Mr. Bodley | 1955 |
Handcuffs, London | Jeremiah Rugeley | 1955 |
One Good Turn | Jeweller | 1955 |
The Detective | Auctioneer | 1954 |
A Christmas Carol | First Collector | 1951 |
Laughter in Paradise | Clerk of the Court | 1951 |
Cloudburst | Johnson | 1951 |
The Inheritance | Vicar | 1950 |
Eye Witness | Martin Foxglove K.C. - Sam's Barrister / Martin Foxglove K.C. | 1950 |
The Perfect Woman | Scientist / The Professor's Associate | 1949 |
Once Upon a Dream | Solicitor | 1949 |
Scott of the Antarctic | First Questioner | 1948 |
The Blind Goddess | Court Usher | 1948 |
Saraband | Count Platen | 1948 |
The Winslow Boy | Mr. Williams | 1948 |
Good-Time Girl | Clerk | 1948 |
The Calendar | Lawyer | 1948 |
Corridor of Mirrors | Psychiatrist | 1948 |
This Was a Woman | Chief Surgeon Barclay | 1948 |
When the Bough Breaks | Judge | 1947 |
Bad Sister | Sir Humphrey Webster | 1947 |
Jassy | Court Usher | 1947 |
The Mark of Cain | Judge | 1947 |
George and Margaret | Malcolm | 1940 |
The Proud Valley | Company Clerk | 1940 |
A Yank at Oxford | Tom Craddock | 1938 |
Men Are Not Gods | Cashier | 1937 |