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{{Short description|English actor (1902–1984)}}
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| yearsactive = 1936–1984
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'''Noel Howlett''' (22 December 1902 – 26 October 1984) was an English actor,<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba377a185|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712014029/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba377a185|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2012|title=Noel Howlett}}</ref> principally remembered as the incompetent headmaster, Morris Cromwell, in the ITV 1970s cult television programme ''[[Please Sir!]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-denyer-actor-who-played-the-slow-but-lovable-dennis-in-please-sir-1793529.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-denyer-actor-who-played-the-slow-but-lovable-dennis-in-please-sir-1793529.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Peter Denyer: Actor who played the slow but lovable Dennis in 'Please|date=26 September 2009}}</ref> He was the subject of infatuation by Deputy Head Doris Ewell, played by [[Joan Sanderson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/please_sir.htm|title=PLEASE SIR! – A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW|first=laurence|last=marcus|publisher=televisionheaven.co.uk}}</ref>

Howlett was born in [[Bexley]], Kent,<ref name=bfi/> and began his career as Richard Greatham in [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Hay Fever (play)|Hay Fever]]''. At Northampton Repertory Theatre in 1930 he played [[Sherlock Holmes]]. He also appeared as Mr Williams in the 1948 film ''[[The Winslow Boy (1948 film)|The Winslow Boy]]'', starring [[Robert Donat]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6baec3a9|title=The Winslow Boy (1948)}}</ref> At [[Stratford-on-Avon]] in 1953, he played Old Gobbo (father to [[Donald Pleasence]]'s Launcelot Gobbo) in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', Edward IV (brother to [[Marius Goring]]'s [[Richard III of England|Richard III]]), Baptista in ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' and Gloucester in ''[[King Lear]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/2h4/noel-howlett/past|title=Noel Howlett|publisher=theatricalia.com}}</ref>

An early TV role was portraying a vicar in the 1958/59 BBC series ''[[Quatermass and the Pit]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/438573/credits.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59) Credits|publisher=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> He appeared as Professor Rushton in a one-off 1967 edition ("Mission Highly Improbable") of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' and as the Reverend Simon Blanding in a one-off 1967 edition ("Dead Man's Shoes") of ''[[Man in a Suitcase]]''.<ref name=bfi/> Other screen appearances include the 1960s TV shows ''[[Softly, Softly (TV series)|Softly, Softly]]'' and ''[[Danger Man]]''. He also appeared in one 1976 episode ("[[List of The Good Life episodes#Series three .281976.29|I Talk to the Trees]]") of the BBC situation comedy ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' as slightly eccentric allotment gardener Mr Wakeley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7bae2505|title=I Talk to the Trees (1976)}}</ref>

He also frequently broadcast and did a spell for the BBC as a member of their Drama Repertory Company (now the Radio Drama Company), one of his appearances being as Inspector Walter Neider in the 1965 [[Paul Temple]] radio episode, "Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a2de6d1bf8de47c39d8fc2b8346b0dc4|title=Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery|date=28 October 1965|issue=2190|pages=62|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==
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* ''[[Men Are Not Gods]]'' (1936) – Cashier (uncredited)
* ''[[A Yank at Oxford]]'' (1938) – Tom Craddock
* ''[[The Proud Valley]]'' (1940) – Company Clerk (uncredited)
* ''[[George and Margaret (film)|George and Margaret]]'' (1940) – Malcolm
* ''[[Jassy (film)|Jassy]]'' (1947) – Court Usher (uncredited)
* ''[[The White Unicorn]]'' (1947) – Sir Humphrey Webster (uncredited)
* ''[[When the Bough Breaks (1947 film)|When the Bough Breaks]]'' (1947) – Judge
* ''[[The Mark of Cain (1947 film)|The Mark of Cain]]'' (1947) – Judge (uncredited)
* ''[[This Was a Woman]]'' (1948) – Chief Surgeon Barclay
* ''[[Corridor of Mirrors (film)|Corridor of Mirrors]]'' (1948) – Psychiatrist (uncredited)
* ''[[The Calendar (1948 film)|The Calendar]]'' (1948) – Lawyer
* ''[[Good-Time Girl]]'' (1948) – Clerk
* ''[[The Winslow Boy (1948 film)|The Winslow Boy]]'' (1948) – Mr. Williams (uncredited)
* ''[[Saraband for Dead Lovers]]'' (1948) – Count Platen
* ''[[The Blind Goddess (1948 film)|The Blind Goddess]]'' (1948) – Court Usher
* ''[[Scott of the Antarctic (film)|Scott of the Antarctic]]'' (1948) – First Questioner
* ''[[Once Upon a Dream (1949 film)|Once Upon a Dream]]'' (1949) – Solicitor
* ''[[The Perfect Woman (1949 film)|The Perfect Woman]]'' (1949) – Scientist
* ''[[Your Witness (film)|Your Witness]]'' (1950) – Martin Foxglove K.C. – Sam's Barrister
* ''[[The Reluctant Widow (film)|The Reluctant Widow]]'' (1950)
* ''[[Laughter in Paradise]]'' (1951) – Clerk of the Court
* ''[[Cloudburst (1951 film)|Cloudburst]]'' (1951) – Johnson
* ''[[Scrooge (1951 film)|Scrooge]]'' (1951) – First Collector
* ''[[Father Brown (film)|Father Brown]]'' (1954) – Auctioneer
* ''[[One Good Turn (1955 film)|One Good Turn]]'' (1955) – Jeweller
* ''Handcuffs, London'' (1955) – Jeremiah Rugeley
* ''[[Lust for Life (1956 film)|Lust for Life]]'' (1956) – Commissioner Van Den Berghe
* ''[[Nowhere to Go (1958 film)|Nowhere to Go]]'' (1958) – Uncle Tom Howard (uncredited)
* ''[[Serious Charge]]'' (1959) – Mr. Peters
* ''[[The Scapegoat (1959 film)|The Scapegoat]]'' (1959) – Dr. Aloin
* ''[[The Battle of the Sexes (1959 film)|The Battle of the Sexes]]'' (1960) – Mr. White
* ''[[Mary Had a Little...]]'' (1961) – Pottle
* ''[[Victim (1961 film)|Victim]]'' (1961) – Patterson
* ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962) – Vicar at St. Paul's (uncredited)
* ''[[Tomorrow at Ten]]'' (1962) – Brain Specialist
* ''[[Murder at the Gallop]]'' (1963) – Mr. Trundell
* ''[[The Kiss of the Vampire]]'' (1963) – Father Xavier
* ''[[Woman of Straw]]'' (1964) – Assistant Solicitor
* ''[[The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders]]'' (1965) – Bishop
* ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (film)|Quatermass and the Pit]]'' (1967) – Abbey Librarian
* ''[[The Bushbaby]]'' (1969) – Rev. Barlow
* ''[[Some Will, Some Won't]]'' (1970) – Endicott
* ''[[Please Sir! (film)|Please Sir!]]'' (1971) – Mr. Cromwell
* ''Mr. Selkie'' (1979) – Grandpa Ross
* ''[[John Wycliffe: The Morning Star]]'' (1984) – Archbishop Sudbury
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==External links==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* {{IMDb name|0398233}}
*{{Find a Grave|39743115}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:People from Bexley]]
[[Category:English male television actors]]
[[Category:Male actors from Kent]]
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