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 boynextdoor 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