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John Woodvine
Born: 21st Jul 1929 Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, England, UK - Died 6th Oct 2025
Dept: Acting
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John Woodvine (1929-2025) was an English stage and screen actor who appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 127
Film: 59 (46%)
Television: 68 (54%)
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Filmography
2023
A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes ... view
Character:
The Preacher
Mar 2017 (first aired)
Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made ... view
Character:
Master of the College (1 ep.)
Nov 2016 (first aired)
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.
The Cro ... view
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Archbishop of York (4 ep.)
2015
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 ... view
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Father
Jan 2014 (first aired)
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They ... view
Character:
Abbot (1 ep.)
Oct 2012 (first aired)
Hebburn is a warm and affectionate tale of north east family life. It tells the tale of the Pearson family and their impetuous and ambitious son, Jack ... view
Character:
Arthur (13 ep.)
May 2011 (first aired)
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping ... view
Character:
Alan Kenworthy (1 ep.)
2010
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist. ... view
Character:
Lord Provost
2010
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 ... view
Character:
Father Connolly
2010
Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses. ... view
Character:
Lord
2009
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 ... view
Character:
Player King
2009
Host Paul Davis takes a trip through some of the iconic backdrops of John Landis' 1981 werewolf classic An American Werewolf In London. The original c ... view
Character:
Self
2008
Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder vict ... view
Character:
Dr Nickel
Jan 2008 (first aired)
Black comedy series centred on Keith Merchant, a recovering alcoholic, as he makes his way through his new sober life. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Nov 2007 (first aired)
Sold is a British comedy drama television series produced by Touchpaper Television for ITV. The series stars Kris Marshall and Bryan Dick as Matt and ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Character:
Guesthouse Owner
2007
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal ... view
Character:
Judge
2006
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success. ... view
Character:
Sir Nigel
2004
In early 19th century England, orphaned Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend. ... view
Character:
Lord Bareacres
May 2004 (first aired)
London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd. ... view
Character:
Henry Moore (3 ep.)
Jan 2004 (first aired)
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council est ... view
Character:
Neville (1 ep.)
2003
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 ... view
Character:
Uncle Howard
2002
A woman is held for ransom by a bitter past acquaintance who threatens to disclose a secret that could destroy her. ... view
Character:
Frank
2002
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 ... view
Character:
Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin
Sep 2001 (first aired)
Gay thirtysomething schoolteacher Robert 'Bob' Gossage finds himself attracted to a woman, Rose Cooper, exploring their unconventional relationship an ... view
Character:
William Gossage (4 ep.)
1999
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own. ... view
Character:
Sir Hugh Dalrymple
Mar 1997 (first aired)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his ... view
Character:
Sir Harry Chatwyn (1 ep.)
Commodore (1 ep.)
Jun 1995 (first aired)
Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolv ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1995
In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two ... view
Character:
Admiral Croft
Feb 1995 (first aired)
Crown Prosecutor is a legal drama whose sole season in 1995 ran for ten episodes on BBC One. It was also produced by the BBC, rather than being indepe ... view
Character:
Judge Mellor (1 ep.)
Character:
Dad (voice)
1994
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. ... view
Character:
Luther
Nov 1994 (first aired)
Finney is a 5-hour, 6-episode made-for-British television film that follows the struggle for power between various crime families in the North of Engl ... view
Character:
Bobo Sr. (6 ep.)
Sep 1994 (first aired)
Michael Gambon stars in this high-tension thriller of political corruption and international intrigue. Peter Moreton, a high-ranking government offici ... view
Character:
Boss (2 ep.)
1994
A young man must risk his life to save his fire-breathing friend from the unscrupulous owner of an amusement park. ... view
Character:
Lester MacIntyre
1994
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 ... view
Character:
Godfrey Blengdale
Sep 1993 (first aired)
Harry is a television drama series produced by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC1 between 18 September 1993 and 12 April 1995. The programm ... view
Character:
Jack Crow (1 ep.)
1993
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 ... view
Character:
Herr Deimen
May 1993 (first aired)
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors w ... view
Character:
Jackie Brown (3 ep.)
1993
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 ... view
Character:
Vitelli
1992
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his ... view
Character:
Thomas Earnshaw
1992
A father and son set up a firm of bailiffs to seize the property of poll-tax dodgers. ... view
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Apr 1992 (first aired)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ... view
Character:
Frank Armstrong (1 ep.)
Jan 1992 (first aired)
Runaway Bay was a children's adventure television series, which ran from 1992 to 1993. The series followed a group of friends having adventures while ... view
Character:
Mr Snotts (26 ep.)
1991
Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean. ... view
Character:
Kreutzen
Nov 1991 (first aired)
Robert Neilson has ambitions to play Hamlet but will do most acting work. His fiancée, Sue, and agent, Desmond, gently encourage his aspirations. ... view
Character:
Frank (1 ep.)
Oct 1991 (first aired)
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. ... view
Character:
Earl of Warwick (1 ep.)
May 1991 (first aired)
The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika. ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice) (8 ep.)
1991
An adaptation of the biblical sections of the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. ... view
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Feb 1991 (first aired)
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1991 (first aired)
Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconven ... view
Character:
Berry (1 ep.)
1990
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 ... view
Character:
The Chamberlain / Father (voice)
1990
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t ... view
Character:
Tom Clarke
Apr 1990 (first aired)
The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at ... view
Character:
Terence Oglivy (1 ep.)
1989
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 ... view
Character:
Tallon
May 1989 (first aired)
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil o ... view
Character:
Attorney General (1 ep.)
1989
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 ... view
Character:
George
1989
Judith arrives at Bluebeard's dark castle hoping her love can convince him to reveal the secrets behind the locked interior doors. ... view
Character:
Speaker of the Prologue (voice)
1989
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until ... view
Character:
Joachim von Ribbentrop
1989
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 ... view
Character:
Dr. Seddon
1988
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 ... view
Character:
Supt. Hammond
1988
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 ... view
Character:
Dr. John MacLeod
Mar 1988 (first aired)
Chelmsford, Britain in the year AD 123; there is a power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus and the British chieftain, Badvoc. Britain is ... view
Character:
Psychiatrist (1 ep.)
Jan 1988 (first aired)
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen ... view
Character:
Ruggio Ruggeri / Henry IV / Leone (1 ep.)
Sep 1987 (first aired)
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ... view
Character:
Sir Malachi Jellicoe (1 ep.)
Sep 1987 (first aired)
Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richa ... view
Character:
Prior Mordrin (13 ep.)
Jan 1987 (first aired)
Rockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Roc ... view
Character:
DCS Gardner (1 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional ... view
Character:
Reg Macready (1 ep.)
Jack Hetherington (1 ep.)
1986
In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what re ... view
Character:
William Danby
1986
South Africa in the 60s. The campaign of sabotage is halted and the arrests continue. The Special Branch obviously have inside Information. ... view
Character:
Mr Norval
1985
Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985. ... view
Character:
Dr. Frobisher
Nov 1985 (first aired)
Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through ... view
Character:
Ross (4 ep.)
May 1985 (first aired)
A bored U.S. housewife trades places in London with her jet-set twin, and one of them winds up dead. ... view
Character:
Chief Inspector (2 ep.)
1985
Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week, wi ... view
Character:
Chief Inspector
1985
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea ... view
Character:
Christian Gilbranson
Character:
Herr Deimen (1 ep.)
1984
When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck ... view
Character:
King Antiochus
Nov 1984 (first aired)
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ... view
Character:
Colonel Sapt (6 ep.)
Sep 1984 (first aired)
In the year 2089, an alien race stalks the land in towering machines known as Tripods. They have taken over the earth and enslaved mankind with a mind ... view
Character:
Meister West 468 (12 ep.)
1984
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland. ... view
Character:
Gierek
Oct 1983 (first aired)
This classic period drama series follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Lacey family, living peacefully in Arnescote Castle until the onset of the E ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Nov 1982 (first aired)
Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he fi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
1982
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers. ... view
Character:
Senior Officer
1981
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a ... view
Character:
Dr. J.S. Hirsch
Aug 1980 (first aired)
Juliet Bravo was a drama that focused on two female police inspectors, neither of whom were called Juliet Bravo! These two inspectors worked in the s ... view
Character:
John Lambert (1 ep.)
1979
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the So ... view
Character:
Colonel
1979
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 ... view
Character:
Marshal
Original title: A Performance of Macbeth
1979
Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Tele ... view
Character:
Banquo
1978
A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer. ... view
Character:
Penitent
Sep 1978 (first aired)
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts. ... view
Character:
Ray Dennis (1 ep.)
Jun 1978 (first aired)
Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his no ... view
Character:
Lazarov (1 ep.)
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three season ... view
Character:
Father (1 ep.)
1975
CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer. ... view
Character:
Matt Fenrek
Dec 1974 (first aired)
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britai ... view
Character:
Colonel John Hewson (1 ep.)
Mar 1974 (first aired)
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC. ... view
Character:
Colonel (1 ep.)
1972
The Baron and Cordelia find themselves held prisoner on a renegade ship up to no good. Two TV episodes of THE BARON edited into a theatrical movie. ... view
Character:
John Garvey
1972
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 ... view
Character:
Howard
Apr 1972 (first aired)
New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 1972 and 1974. It features the activities ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (46 ep.)
1971
A charismatic 17th-century French priest becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state offi ... view
Character:
Louis Trincant
Feb 1971 (first aired)
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Qu ... view
Character:
Sir Francis Drake (1 ep.)
1970
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether ... view
Character:
Claudius
Oct 1970 (first aired)
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more tha ... view
Character:
Penitent (2 ep.)
1970
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 ... view
Character:
Bertie Irons
Nov 1969 (first aired)
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off f ... view
Character:
Det. Chief Supt. Allan (1 ep.)
Sep 1969 (first aired)
The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield, an ... view
Character:
Bloody Delilah (20 ep.)
Sep 1969 (first aired)
Hadleigh was a British television series made by Yorkshire Television which originally ran from 1969 to 1976. Developed by Robert Barr, it was a seque ... view
Character:
Driberg (1 ep.)
Sep 1968 (first aired)
After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enh ... view
Character:
Lt. Kruger Haller (1 ep.)
Sep 1968 (first aired)
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produce ... view
Character:
Vitellius (2 ep.)
May 1967 (first aired)
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers was a BBC drama series and a follow-up to the 1966–67 10-episode serial The Three Musketeers. Based on Alex ... view
Character:
Aramis (16 ep.)
Jan 1967 (first aired)
Turn Out the Lights was an ITV sitcom series made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Monday 2 January to Monday 6 February 1967 by A ... view
Character:
Stefan (1 ep.)
Jan 1966 (first aired)
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of region ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1965 (first aired)
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a ... view
Character:
Sebastian (1 ep.)
MacDuff (1 ep.)
1965
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame a ... view
Character:
Customs Officer (uncredited)
May 1964 (first aired)
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first reg ... view
Character:
Gordon Follister (1 ep.)
Nov 1963 (first aired)
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling ... view
Character:
Marshal (5 ep.)
Jun 1963 (first aired)
Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed t ... view
Character:
Carlyon (1 ep.)
Oct 1962 (first aired)
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in ... view
Character:
Pilot (1 ep.)
Sep 1962 (first aired)
Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and ... view
Character:
Gioti (1 ep.)
Jan 1962 (first aired)
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (4 ep.)
DI Alan Witty (416 ep.)
Det. Insp. Witty (2 ep.)
Sep 1961 (first aired)
Ghost Squad, known as G.S.5 for its third series, was a crime drama series about an elite division of Scotland Yard that ran between 1961 and 1964. Ea ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1961 (first aired)
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, ... view
Character:
Seagrave (2 ep.)
1960
Film "The Poet" based on the one-act play Il Poeta by Dario Niccodemi. ... view
Character:
Catullo Ossiano
Jul 1956 (first aired)
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produ ... view
Character:
Fred Barrow (1 ep.)