Noel Howlett

Noel Howlett was an English actor, principally remembered as the incompetent headmaster, Morris Cromwell, in the ITV 1970s cult television programme Please Sir. He was the subject of infatuation by Deputy Head Doris Ewell, played by Joan Sanderson.

Howlett was born in Maidstone, Kent, and began his career as Richard Greatham in Nol Cowards 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, starring Robert Donat. At StratfordonAvon in 1953, he played Old Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, Edward IV , Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew and Gloucester in King Lear.

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