Peter Hammond
- Directing
- November 23, 1923 · London, England, UK
- October 12, 2011
Biography
Peter Charles Hammond Hill was an English actor and television director. Peter Charles Hammond Hill was born in Victoria, Central London. His father, Charles, was an art restorer and his mother, Ada, a nurse. After attending Harrow School of Art, he started work as a scenic artist at Sheffield Repertory Theatre. Following this, he turned to acting to "earn some cash", where he adopted the stage name of Peter Hammond. He first appeared in a West End production at the age of 17. Hammond made his film début in Waterloo Road (1945) and went on to carve a career playing handsome boy-next-door types throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, most notably as Peter Hawtrey in The Huggetts Trilogy – Here Come the Huggetts (1948), Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad (both 1949). [Source: Wikipedia]
Known for
Filmography
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes · Director
- The Eligible Bachelor · Director
- The Master Blackmailer · Director
- Saracen · Director
- The Dark Angel · Director
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries · Writer
- The Death of the Heart · Director
- The Children of Dynmouth · Director
- The Sign of Four · Director
- The Dark Angel · Director
- Inspector Morse · Director
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes · Director
- The Demon Lover · Director
- Screen Two · Director
- Round And Round · Director
- Sherlock Holmes · Director
- Shades of Darkness · Director
- The Hard Word · Director
- The Maze · Director
- The Glory Hole · Director
- Aubrey · Director
- Funny Man · Director
- The Little World of Don Camillo · Director
- The Happy Autumn Fields · Director
- Hallelujah, Mary Plum · Director
- Tales of the Unexpected · Director
- Wuthering Heights · Director
- Liza · Director
- Send in the Girls · Director
- Kilvert's Diary · Director
- BBC2 Play of the Week · Director
- The House That Jack Built · Director
- King of the Castle · Director
- The Phantom Kid · Director
- Romance · Director
- Luke's Kingdom · Director
- Our Mutual Friend · Director
- Rumpole of the Bailey · Director
- Shades of Greene · Director
- Churchill's People · Director
- Sea Song · Director
- Armchair Cinema · Director
- Dial M for Murder · Writer
- Playhouse · Director
- Oranges and Lemons · Writer
- Franklin's Farm · Director
- Six Days of Justice · Writer
- The Shattered Eye · Director
- Follyfoot · Director
- Spring and Port Wine · Director
- Treasure Island · Director
- Cold Comfort Farm · Director
- ITV Playhouse · Director
- The White Rabbit · Director
- The Three Musketeers · Director, Creator
- Lord Raingo · Director
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Writer
- Out of the Unknown · Director
- Hereward the Wake · Director
- Contract to Kill · Director
- I Took My Little World Away · Director
- The Count of Monte Cristo · Director
- The Wednesday Play · Director
- Theatre 625 · Director
- The Protectors · Director
- Out of This World · Director
- Z-Cars · Writer
- A Chance of Thunder · Director, Producer
- The Avengers · Director
- Sunday-Night Play · Director
- Armchair Mystery Theatre · Director
- Jack the Ripper · Scenario Writer
- Model for Murder · George
- The Adventures of William Tell · Captain Hofmanstahl
- X: The Unknown · Lt. Bannerman
- The Buccaneers · Lt. Edward Beamish
- Armchair Theatre · Director, Writer
- It's Never Too Late · Tony
- Spin a Dark Web · Bill Walker
- Confession · Alan