Peter Hammond

About

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

The AvengersSeries • 1961Sherlock HolmesSeries • 1984The Wednesday PlaySeries • 1964Z-CarsSeries • 1962Screen TwoSeries • 1985ITV PlayhouseSeries • 1967Tales of the UnexpectedSeries • 1979Inspector MorseSeries • 1987PlayhouseSeries • 1974Thirty-Minute TheatreSeries • 1965Theatre 625Series • 1964Rumpole of the BaileySeries • 1975The Ruth Rendell MysteriesSeries • 1987The BuccaneersSeries • 1956Out of the UnknownSeries • 1965Churchill's PeopleSeries • 1974BBC2 Play of the WeekSeries • 1977The Adventures of William TellSeries • 1958FollyfootSeries • 1971The Sign of FourMovie • 1987The Master BlackmailerMovie • 1992X: The UnknownMovie • 1956Jack the RipperMovie • 1959The Eligible BachelorMovie • 1993