Biography
Noel Howlett (22 December 1902 – 26 October 1984) 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.Howlett was born in Bexley, Kent, and began his career as Richard Greatham in Noël Coward's Hay Fever. At Northampton Repertory Theatre in 1930 he played Sherlock Holmes. He also appeared as Mr Williams in the 1948 film The Winslow Boy, starring Robert Donat. At Stratford-on-Avon in 1953, he played Old Gobbo (father to Donald Pleasence's Launcelot Gobbo) in The Merchant of Venice, Edward IV (brother to Marius Goring's Richard III), Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew and Gloucester in King Lear.An early TV role was portraying a vicar in the 1958/59 BBC series Quatermass and the Pit. He appeared as Professor Rushton in a one-off 1967 edition ("Mission Highly Improbable") of The Avengers and as the Reverend Simon Blanding in a one-off 1967 edition ("Dead Man's Shoes") of Man in a Suitcase. Other screen appearances include the 1960s TV shows Softly, Softly and Danger Man. He also appeared in one 1976 episode ("I Talk to the Trees") of the BBC situation comedy The Good Life as slightly eccentric allotment gardener Mr Wakeley.He also frequently broadcast and did a spell for the BBC as a member of their Drama Repertory Company (now the Radio Drama Company), one of his appearances being as Inspector Walter Neider in the 1965 Paul Temple radio episode, "Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery".
Filmography
all 52
Movies 34
TV Shows 18
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984)
The Good Life (1975)
Sykes (1972)
Please Sir! (1971)
Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
Please Sir! (1968)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Man in a Suitcase (1967)
Sexton Blake (1967)
The Troubleshooters (1965)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
The Wednesday Play (1964)
Silas Marner (1964)
The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Tomorrow at Ten (1962)
Victim (1961)
Mary Had a Little... (1961)
The Avengers (1961)
Coronation Street (1960)
Maigret (1960)
Danger Man (1960)
The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
No Hiding Place (1959)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Serious Charge (1959)
Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
Nowhere to Go (1958)
Armchair Theatre (1956)
Hancock's Half Hour (1956)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1956)
The Last Reunion (1955)
Dixon of Dock Green (1955)
Father Brown (1954)
Scrooge (1951)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
The Reluctant Widow (1950)
Your Witness (1950)
The Perfect Woman (1949)
Once Upon a Dream (1949)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
The Blind Goddess (1948)
The Calendar (1948)
Good-Time Girl (1948)
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
When The Bough Breaks (1947)
George and Margaret (1940)
The Proud Valley (1940)
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Men Are Not Gods (1936)
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GenderMale
Birthday1902-12-22
Deathday1984-10-26 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceMaidstone, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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