John Woodvine

John Woodvine

Nacimiento : 1929-07-21, Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, England

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Woodvine licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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John Woodvine

Películas

Enys Men
The Preacher
A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
A Song for Jenny
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. Starring Emily Watson as Julie, A Song For Jenny details the dramatic and profound impact of violence on one woman and a family.
Burke and Hare
Lord Provost
Comedia negra, ambientada en el siglo XIX, sobre unos profanadores de tumbas que se dedican al lucrativo negocio de proveer de cadáveres una escuela de medicina de Edimburgo.
Joe Maddison's War
Father Connolly
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 for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard.
Hamlet
Player King
David Tennant protagoniza una película de la galardonada producción de la gran obra de Shakespeare de la Royal Shakespeare Company. La producción del vestido del director Gregory Doran fue aclamada por los críticos como emocionante, de rápido movimiento y, en parte, muy divertida.
Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London'
Self
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 cast and crew tell the story of how the film was made over a quarter of a century ago featuring rare footage and never before seen photos.
Flick
Dr Nickel
Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.
The Midnight Drives
Guesthouse Owner
A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall.
The Trial of Tony Blair
Judge
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
Miss Potter
Sir Nigel
Beatrix Potter fue una mujer inteligente y carismática que se vio obligada a luchar contra los convencionalismos de su época para poder dedicarse a su pasión: los libros infantiles. Potter se enamoró de Norman Warne, su editor, quién le ayudó a alcanzar la fama con sus creaciones para niños del personaje Peter Rabbit.
La feria de las vanidades
Lord Bareacres
Londres, comienzos del siglo XIX. Hija de un artista inglés pobre y de una corista francesa, Becky (Reese Witherspoon) se queda huérfana a muy temprana edad, pero ya de niña era muy ambiciosa y soñaba con una vida de lujo y comodidades. Cuando sale de la Academia de la Srta. Pinkerton en Chiswick, está firmemente decidida a utilizar su belleza, ingenio y astucia para conquistar un lugar dentro la alta sociedad inglesa.
Las hermanas Bolena
Uncle Howard
Siglo XVI. Enrique VIII (Jared Harris) está casado con Catalina de Aragón, pero no tarda en buscarse una amante; la elegida es María Bolena (Natascha McElhone), una joven de 24 años casada con un miembro de la corte. Al verse presionada por su propia familia para seguir ejerciendo de amante en contra de su propia voluntad, María comienza a apartarse de los suyos, encontrando finalmente apoyo en un joven del que quedará embarazada. La huida parece la única manera de escapar a este nuevo problema para su torturada existencia.
The Secret
Frank
A woman is held for ransom by a bitter past acquaintance who threatens to disclose a secret that could destroy her.
The Falklands Play
Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin (Chief of the Defence Staff)
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 Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.
The Falklands Play
Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin
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 Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
Sir Hugh Dalrymple
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
Persuasión
Admiral Croft
Año 1813, Inglaterra. La joven Anne Elliot, de 29 años, cuya edad "adecuada" para contraer matrimonio ha pasado, vive con su opresivo y vanidoso padre Sir Walter Elliot de Kellynch Hall, y su hermana mayor Elizabeth. Ocho años antes fue persuadida por Lady Russell, íntima amiga de su difunta madre, para que renunciara a su amor por un oficial de la marina de posición social inferior y con poco futuro, el capitán Wentworth. Sin embargo, después de todos esos años éste aparece nuevamente en su círculo social, ascendido a capitán, y enriquecido por la guerra.
Patria
Luther
Thriller basado en la hipótesis de que Hitler hubiera ganado la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Corre el año 1964 y Alemania domina Europa. Cuando varios altos cargos del III Reich aparecen muertos, un detective comienza a investigar...
Dragonworld
Lester MacIntyre
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
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 showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.
El proceso
Herr Deimen
Adaptación a la gran pantalla de "El proceso", la prestigiosa novela de Frank Kafka. (FILMAFFINITY)
Leon (Leon the Pig Farmer)
Vitelli
Leon Geller es un joven judío que descubre que vino al mundo gracias a la inseminación artificial y que su verdadero padre no es un judío ortodoxo comerciante de Londres sino un criador de cerdos de Yorkshire. Leon se traslada a la granja de su padre biológico e intenta moldearse a una nueva forma de vida. Un día, por error consigue crear el primer cruce entre cerdo y oveja del mundo, o sea, el primer cerdo que podrá ser consumido por los judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cumbres  borrascosas
Thomas Earnshaw
Heathcliff es hermano de crianza de Cathy Earnshaw; mas bien, es su otra mitad. Cuando los fuerzan a separarlos, Heathcliff da rienda suelta a la venganza contra aquellos que considera responsables. Algunos años antes de que protagonizaran "El paciente inglés", Binoche y Fiennes ya habían trabajado juntos en esta adaptación de la famosa novela homónima de Emily Brontë.
Little Richard Wrecked My Marriage
A father and son set up a firm of bailiffs to seize the property of poll-tax dodgers.
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
The Chamberlain / Father (voice)
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 daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Tom Clarke
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Danny the Champion of the World
Tallon
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 piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
And a Nightingale Sang
George
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 thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Speaker of the Prologue (voice)
Judith arrives at Bluebeard's dark castle hoping her love can convince him to reveal the secrets behind the locked interior doors.
Countdown to War
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
The Dog It Was That Died
Dr. Seddon
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 Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
The Black and Blue Lamp
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 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Glory Enough For All
Dr. John MacLeod
Glory Enough for All is the 1988 television movie depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best. It won the 1989 Gemini award for best miniseries.
The Marlowe Inquest
William Danby
In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwright and poet, Christopher Marlowe.
The Browning Version
Dr. Frobisher
Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.
El engaño (TV)
Chief Inspector
Stephanie y Sabrina son hermanas gemelas. Mientras que Stephanie es un ama de casa insatisfecha, Sabrina pertenece a la alta sociedad londinense. Después de reunirse en Venecia para celebrar su cumpleaños, cada una de ellas decide vivir la vida de la otra. Así es como Sabrina se convierte en madre y esposa. Stephanie, por su parte, se siente un poco insegura en su relación con un atractivo estudiante.
Murder with Mirrors
Christian Gilbranson
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, murder most foul is bound to occur.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
King Antiochus
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
The Tripods
Meister West 468
Squaring the Circle
Gierek
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
Un hombre lobo americano en Londres
Dr. J. S. Hirsch
Dos mochileros norteamericanos, David Kessler y Jack están de viaje por Europa. Caminando por una zona rural de Inglaterra, la población local los mira mal cuando entran en un bar. Al salir, reciben todo tipo de extrañas advertencias: 'Manténganse en la carretera y aléjense de los pantanos' y 'Cuidado con la luna'. Aun así, los jóvenes se adentran en la oscuridad y no se dan cuenta que están siendo seguidos por una terrible criatura.
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Marshal
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 that a sinister entity is manipulating events and the cost of obtaining the final segment may be more personal than he imagined.
Macbeth
Banquo
La clásica tragedia de Shakespeare de ambición, brujas y asesinatos.
Butterflies Don't Count
Penitent
"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 via God's sweet sacraments and let no doubts intrude -ever. Once you start to question - you're finished."
Assault on Agathon
Matt Fenrek
CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer.
El joven Winston
Howard
Cuando Winston Churchill era niño, sus padres estaban tan volcados en sus respectivas actividades que no le prestaron apenas atención alguna. Siguiendo los deseos de su padre, un prestigioso político conservador (tory), se alistó en el ejército y participó en la guerra anglo-bóer (1899-1902), donde estuvo a punto de morir. Terminada la contienda, se dedicó a la política hasta el fin de sus días. (FILMAFFINITY)
Los demonios
Louis Trincant
Controvertido y célebre flim sobre un clérigo, en la Francia del XVII, acusado de herejía. Basada libremente en hechos reales ocurridos en el convento de Laudun, en Francia, en el que supuestamente unas monjas Ursulinas fueron poseídas por el diablo en 1634.
The Walking Stick
Bertie Irons
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 romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
Darling
Customs Officer (uncredited)
Londres, principios de los sesenta. Bella pero superficial, Diana Scott es una modelo publicitaria profesional, una actriz fallida, una mujer vocacionalmente aburrida, que juega con el afecto de varios hombres mientras gana fama y fortuna.