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John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.
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John Woodvine Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Woodvine |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, England |
| Date of Birth | 1929-07-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 93 |
| Deathday |
John Woodvine Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Macbeth | Banquo | 1979-02-02 | Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Tele… |
| Glory Enough For All | Dr. John MacLeod | 1988-06-27 | Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting a… |
| Assault on Agathon | Matt Fenrek | 1975-07-24 | CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer…. |
| Duke Bluebeard’s Castle | Speaker of the Prologue (voice) | 1989-04-12 | This highly acclaimed film version of Béla Bartók’s searing psychological opera, performed by Robert Lloyd and Elizabeth Laurence, won the 1989 Prix… |
| An American Werewolf in London | Dr. J. S. Hirsch | 1981-08-21 | Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists…. |
| The Secret | Frank | 2002-04-13 | A woman is held for ransom by a bitter past acquaintance who threatens to disclose a secret that could destroy her…. |
| The Black and Blue Lamp | 1988-09-07 | Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In … | |
| The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | The Chamberlain / Father (voice) | 1990-09-28 | Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar’s d… |
| And a Nightingale Sang | George | 1989-04-17 | Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over t… |
| Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor | Marshal | 1979-02-24 | The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos. The Fourth Doctor discovers th… |
| The Browning Version | Dr. Frobisher | 1985-12-31 | Adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s play produced for the BBC in 1985…. |
| Countdown to War | Joachim von Ribbentrop | 1989-04-07 | Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until… |
| Enys Men | The Preacher | 2023-01-13 | 1973. Alone on a Cornish island overlooked by an ancient standing stone, a volunteer studies a rare flower growing on the cliff edge below an abandone… |
| Persuasion | Admiral Croft | 1995-05-01 | This film adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel follows Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, who is persuaded to … |
| A Song for Jenny | 2015-07-05 | A Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson’s response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station… | |
| Squaring the Circle | Gierek | 1984-05-23 | An account of how Lech Walesa and the “Solidarity” trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland…. |
| The Midnight Drives | Guesthouse Owner | 2007-06-25 | A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall…. |
| Little Richard Wrecked My Marriage | 1992-07-20 | A father and son set up a firm of bailiffs to seize the property of poll-tax dodgers…. | |
| Butterflies Don’t Count | Penitent | 1978-11-28 | “Whether priest or thespian, never once let yourself doubt that the role you’re playing is real. Lead your little flock from childhood to the grave vi… |
| Beware the Moon: Remembering ‘An American Werewolf in London’ | Self | 2009-09-14 | Twenty five years on, the original cast and crew look back on the John Landis classic, An American Werewolf In London…. |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Uncle Howard | 2003-03-28 | Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes m… |
| Fatherland | Luther | 1994-11-26 | Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. … |
| The Marlowe Inquest | William Danby | 1986-09-03 | In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what re… |
| Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil | Sir Hugh Dalrymple | 1999-02-24 | Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own…. |
| Dragonworld | Lester MacIntyre | 1994-07-27 | A young man must risk his life to save his fire-breathing friend from the unscrupulous owner of an amusement park…. |
| A Pinch of Snuff | Godfrey Blengdale | 1994-04-09 | Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showi… |
| Joe Maddison’s War | Father Connolly | 2010-09-19 | Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him fo… |
| The Dog It Was That Died | Dr. Seddon | 1989-01-01 | Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who’s been tailing… |
| Flick | Dr Nickel | 2008-10-03 | Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder vict… |
| The Walking Stick | Bertie Irons | 1970-04-15 | A young woman’s highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into … |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre | King Antiochus | 1984-12-08 | When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch’s riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shi… |
| The Tripods | Meister West 468 | 1984-09-15 | … |
| Danny the Champion of the World | Tallon | 1989-04-29 | Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a pi… |
| The Falklands Play | Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin | 2002-04-10 | The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Cur… |
| Leon The Pig Farmer | Vitelli | 1993-02-26 | An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial … |
| Murder with Mirrors | Christian Gilbranson | 1985-02-20 | When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there’s time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy,… |
| The Trial of Tony Blair | Judge | 2007-01-15 | Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal… |
| Hamlet | Player King | 2009-12-26 | David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s award-winning production of Shakespeare’s great play. Director Gregory Doran’s modern… |
| Deceptions | Chief Inspector | 1985-05-26 | Twin sisters trade places with unexpected results…. |
| The Devils | Louis Trincant | 1971-07-01 | In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occu… |
| Who Bombed Birmingham? | Tom Clarke | 1990-04-22 | Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the “Birmingham Six” only admitted t… |
| Wuthering Heights | Thomas Earnshaw | 1992-10-16 | Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his… |
| Spaghetti House | Alto Funzionario | 1982-10-22 | Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers…. |
| Young Winston | Howard | 1972-07-20 | This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres… |
| Miss Potter | Sir Nigel | 2006-12-03 | The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children’s book, ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’, and her struggle for love, happin… |
| Burke & Hare | Lord Provost | 2010-10-29 | Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist…. |
| The Falklands Play | Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin (Chief of the Defence Staff) | 2002-04-10 | The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Cur… |
| The Trial | Herr Deimen | 1993-06-18 | Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and d… |
| Darling | Customs Officer (uncredited) | 1965-08-03 | The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored wom… |
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