Peter Hammond

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]

Works

Morning Departure

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

Release Date1950-02-21

Charactersd Sub-Lt. Oakley

Vote Count19

Fortune in Diamonds

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.

Release Date1951-03-07

Charactersd Hendrik van Thaal

Vote Count2

Helter Skelter

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

Release Date1949-08-07

Charactersd Spencer Stone

Vote Count3

Flannelfoot

Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps detective Adam expose the criminal.

Release Date1953-11-01

Charactersd Andy Fraser

Vote Count2

The Adventures of William Tell

The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.

Release Date1958-09-15

Charactersd Captain Hofmanstahl

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

X: The Unknown

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.

Release Date1956-09-21

Charactersd Lt. Bannerman

Vote Count71

The Crowded Day

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

Release Date1954-10-01

Charactersd Michael Blayburn

Vote Count8

Alf's Baby

Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.

Release Date1953-02-01

Charactersd Tim Benson

Model for Murder

An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved in a jewel heist.

Release Date1959-02-01

Charactersd George

Vote Count5

The Buccaneers

The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

Release Date1956-09-19

Charactersd Lt. Edward Beamish

Episode Count26

Vote Count4

Fools Rush In

Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul turns out to be just the opposite when he arrives for Pamela's wedding.

Release Date1949-05-23

Charactersd Tommy

Vote Count2

Here Come the Huggetts

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

Release Date1948-12-02

Charactersd Peter Hawtrey

Vote Count6

The Huggetts Abroad

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.

Release Date1949-03-21

Charactersd Peter Hawtrey

Vote Count5

It's Never Too Late

To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist and when her screenplay comes to the attention of a Hollywood producer, Laura is suddenly plunged into the big time.

Release Date1956-05-07

Charactersd Tony

Vote Count2

Fly Away Peter

Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different ways as their four children grow up, fall in love and make career choices.

Release Date1948-10-07

Charactersd George Harris

Come Back Peter

There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.

Release Date1952-10-31

Charactersd George Harris

Vote Count1

Confession

A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.

Release Date1955-06-01

Charactersd Alan

Vote Count6

The Reluctant Widow

A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.

Release Date1950-05-01

Charactersd Eustace Cheviot

Vote Count2

Vote for Huggett

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.

Release Date1949-02-01

Charactersd Peter Hawtrey

Vote Count5

Spin a Dark Web

A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).

Release Date1956-03-01

Charactersd Bill Walker

Vote Count6

They Knew Mr. Knight

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?

Release Date1946-03-05

Charactersd Douglas Blake

Vote Count5

Father's Doing Fine

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending birth and the love affairs of the other three daughters; Bicky, with eccentric student Roly; Gerda, married to artist Wilfred; and Catherine, in love with the landlord's son, Clifford Magill. In addition, the impoverished Lady Buckering is being courted by Dr. Drew. Written by Les Adams

Release Date1952-08-15

Charactersd Roly

Vote Count3

Release Date1959-05-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Vote Count24

The Dark Angel

The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.

Release Date1987-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The Master Blackmailer

For years, a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is creating, he adopts a campaign to thwart his evil scheming. The campaign astonishes Dr. Watson by its strangeness and finds Holmes falling in love.

Release Date1992-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

The Happy Autumn Fields

Time is playing tricks on Mary. Around her the walls are crumbling- all the houses are being pulled down. Why does she insist on staying, caught in a dream about a family, years ago, out walking in the fields after the harvest? And who was Sarah, that beautiful young girl, whose sister couldn't bear that she was in love?

Release Date1980-11-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Spring and Port Wine

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.

Release Date1970-10-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Out of This World

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode is introduced by actor Boris Karloff. Many episodes are adaptations of stories by sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown.

Release Date1962-06-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Sea Song

Millionaire recluse Ray Carter takes part in a single handed race across the Atlantic - but soon discovers a stowaway.

Release Date1974-09-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Liza

Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.

Release Date1978-03-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Release Date1964-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

The Little World of Don Camillo

In a small village in the Po Valley a permanent state of feud exists between the parish priest Don Camillo and the Communist mayor Peppone. They fight their battles in the cause of the betterment of the Northern Italian community and Camillo comforts himself in his frequent times of crisis with intimate little conversations with the Almighty.

Release Date1981-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count1

Armchair Cinema

British television drama anthology series of single plays.

Release Date1974-05-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Contract to Kill

Release Date1965-05-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

The House That Jack Built

For Jack, the dream was to live in a castle with grounds big enough to ride a horse for two hours. For Lu, it was the dream of love. Shelagh Delaney's drama Charts 10 years of a marriage from wedding night to the present day

Release Date1977-06-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Phantom Kid

a couple of young vigilantes on a mission to stop a gang of train robbers.

Release Date1977-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Release Date1945-02-05

Vote Count18