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Peter Hammond
Born November 23, 1923 in London, England, UKDied October 12, 201119 films
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.
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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]
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First watchThe Sign of Four19877.4Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the…View filmFilmography
19 films as director- 1993The Eligible BachelorDirector
- 1992The Master BlackmailerDirector
- 1987The Death of the HeartDirector
- 1987The Children of DynmouthDirector
- 1987The Sign of FourDirector
- 1987The Dark AngelDirector
- 1986The Demon LoverDirector
- 1983The MazeDirector
- 1982The Glory HoleDirector
- 1982AubreyDirector
- 1980The Happy Autumn FieldsDirector
- 1980Hallelujah, Mary PlumDirector
- 1978LizaDirector
- 1977The Phantom KidDirector
- 1974Sea SongDirector
- 1972Franklin's FarmDirector
- 1971The Shattered EyeDirector
- 1970Spring and Port WineDirector
- 1965I Took My Little World AwayDirector