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Karl Howman

Actor

Karl Howman

Born December 13, 1952 in Woolwich, London, England, UK20 films

Karl Howman is a British actor best known for the films The Long Good Friday, Babylon, That'll Be The Day and Stardust, and for playing the charming painter and decorator Jacko in the classic 1980s sitcom Brush Strokes. Most recently, he has been a regular on EastEnders.

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The Long Good Friday posterFirst watchThe Long Good Friday19807.2as DavidIn the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a…View film

Essential films

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The Canterbury Tales poster6.1The Canterbury Tales1972Babylon poster7.0Babylon1980The Truth About Love poster4.6The Truth About Love2005

Filmography

20 films as actor
  1. 2005The Truth About LoveCliff
  2. 2004ChristineKeith Telfer
  3. 1987Up LineJimmy Domingo
  4. 1985Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
  5. 1983Party PartyJohnny Reeve
  6. 1980The Flipside of Dominick HideGeoffrey
  7. 1980BabylonRonnie
  8. 1980The Long Good FridayDavid
  9. 1980FoxGriff
  10. 1980S.O.S. TitanicFifth Officer Harold Lowe
  11. 1979PorridgeUrquhart
  12. 1978A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts2nd Policeman
  13. 1978Safety and the SupervisorCliff
  14. 1976ExposéSmall Youth
  15. 1975The Prodigal DaughterPatrick O'Donnell
  16. 1974StardustStevie
  17. 1974Frankenstein: The True StoryWilliam Frankenstein
  18. 1973The Death of GlorySpice
  19. 1973That'll Be The DayJohnny
  20. 1972The Canterbury Tales1st Homosexual Lover (uncredited)