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Peter Charles Hammond Hill (15 November 1923 – 12 October 2011) was an English actor and television director. He made his film début in Waterloo Road in 1945 and went onto carve a career playing handsome boy next door types throughout the late forties and early fifties most notably as Peter Hawtrey in The Huggetts Trilogy - Here Come the Huggetts (1948), Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad (both 1949). Other films include Holiday Camp (1947), Helter Skelter (1949), Morning Departure (1950), The Adventurers (1951) and X the Unknown (1956). In 1950 Peter Hammond was reunited with his... MORE

Peter Charles Hammond Hill (15 November 1923 – 12 October 2011) was an English actor and television director. He made his film début in Waterloo Road in 1945 and went onto carve a career playing handsome boy next door types throughout the late forties and early fifties most notably as Peter Hawtrey in The Huggetts Trilogy - Here Come the Huggetts (1948), Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad (both 1949). Other films include Holiday Camp (1947), Helter Skelter (1949), Morning Departure (1950), The Adventurers (1951) and X the Unknown (1956). In 1950 Peter Hammond was reunited with his Huggetts co-star Petula Clark and played her love interest in Ealing's Dance Hall. He gave Clark her first screen kiss in this film. Prominent television roles include Hofmanstahl in The Adventures of William Tell and Lt. Edward Beamish in The Buccaneers. In the 1960s he turned to directing television programmes such as The Avengers, Armchair Theatre and Out of the Unknown. He continued to direct many popular TV series of seventies, eighties and nineties including Rumpole of the Bailey, Tales of the Unexpected, The Return of Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse. He also directed the film Spring and LESS