Nicholas Woodeson
Nicholas Woodeson | |
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Born | Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1970–present |
Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson (born 30 November 1949)
Early life and education
Woodeson was born in Sudan[
Career
Theatre
Woodeson's first work after drama school was a season at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1974–75), in a company that included Jonathan Pryce (artistic director), Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy. He has worked in regional theatre in the UK and US, at the Hampstead Theatre, the Young Vic and Almeida Theatre in London, and at the Manhattan Theatre Club. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and remained there seven years.[5] On Broadway, his work includes Straker in Man and Superman (1978), Piaf (1981), Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (1995), and Burleigh in Mary Stuart (2009). In 2011, he played Mr Prince in the National Theatre revival of Odets' Rocket to the Moon. He appeared in the West End production of Funny Peculiar (1976), in Good (1982), as Bonesy in Jumpers (2003), as Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (2012), and as Harold Wilson in The Audience (2015). He acted in two productions of Pinter's The Birthday Party playing McCann at the National Theatre in 1994, and Goldberg in the Lyric Hammersmith's 50th centenary production in 2008, and two productions of Pinter's The Homecoming, playing Lenny in the 25th Anniversary West End revival in 1991 and Max at the RSC in 2011.
In 2017, following the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, he took over the role of Willy Loman in the Royal & Derngate tour of Death of a Salesman, for which he was nominated for a UK Theatre Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Film
Woodeson's first film work was a role in
In 2011/2012 he made the short film You Are Me for the Holocaust Survivors' Centre in London.[5]
Television
Woodeson's first network television work was playing a US marine in A Rumor of War (1980) starring Brad Davis. He played killer Michael Hennessy in the very first episode of Cracker (1993),[7] starring Robbie Coltrane. In 1998 he appeared in Midsomer Murders "Death of a Hollow Man" as Avery Philips. He played SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hoffman in the acclaimed BBC/HBO production Conspiracy (2001), starring Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth. He portrayed Harman Grisewood, in the 2008 TV programme Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story.[8] He has guest starred on series such as Miami Vice, Midsomer Murders, A Touch of Frost, and Poirot.
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Personal life
Woodeson lives in London, but has also lived in the United States.[5]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1980 | Heaven's Gate | Small Man | |
1990 | The Russia House | Niki Landau | |
1993 | The Pelican Brief | Stump | |
1997 | Shooting Fish | Mr. Collyns | |
1997 | The Man Who Knew Too Little | Sergei | |
1998 | Titanic Town | Immonger | |
1998 | The Avengers | Dr. Darling | |
1999 | Topsy-Turvy | Mr. Seymour | |
1999 | Mad Cows | Detective Slynne | |
1999 | Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Mr. Dian | |
2000 | One of the Hollywood Ten | Ben | |
2006 | Amazing Grace | Harrison | |
2009 | Pope Joan | Arighis | |
2011 | Hysteria | Dr. Richardson | |
2012 | John Carter | Dalton | |
2012 | Hannah Arendt | William Shawn | |
2012 | Skyfall | Doctor Hall | |
2014 | Mr. Turner | Gentleman Critics | |
2015 | The Danish Girl | Dr. Buson | |
2016 | Race | Fred Rubien | |
2016 | The Limehouse Golem | Toby Dosett | |
2016 | Letters from Baghdad | George MacMunn | |
2017 | The Death of Stalin | Boris Bresnavich | |
2017 | Disobedience | Rabbi Goldfarb | |
2017 | Paddington 2 | Insurance Company C.E.O. | |
2018 | Beirut | Herzberg | |
2019 | The Hustle | Albert | |
2019 | Jarhead: Law of Return | Minister of Defense | |
2021 | Firebird | Colonel Kuznetsov | |
2022 | My Father's Secrets | Old Rabbi |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1980 | Here's Boomer | Theo | Episode: "The Jockey" |
1980 | A Rumor of War | Cpl. Kazmarak | 2 episodes |
1982 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sir Henry Baskerville | 4 episodes |
1984 | Piaf | Emil | Television film |
1985 | Miami Vice | Artie Cross | Episode: "Made for Each Other" |
1989 | Blackeyes | Stilk | Episode #1.1 |
1990 | Max and Helen | Martin Greenbaum | Television film |
1991 | For the Greater Good | Michael Parke-Walsh MP | 3 episodes |
1991 | The Wolvis Family | Dr. Graham Wilcockson | 6 episodes |
1992 | A Fatal Inversion | Inspector Winder | 2 episodes |
1992 | ScreenPlay | Geoff Harris | Episode: "Bad Girl" |
1992 | The Life and Times of Henry Pratt | Dr. Hargreaves | Episode #1.3 |
1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings | Bertie Williams | 3 episodes |
1992, 1994 | Screen Two | Keith / Roland | 2 episodes |
1993 | Mr. Wroe's Virgins | Brother Moses | 4 episodes |
1993 | Bonjour la Classe | Leslie Piper | 6 episodes |
1993 | Performance | Jorgen Tesman | Episode: "Hedda Gabler" |
1993 | Cracker | Hennessy | Episode: "The Mad Woman in the Attic: Part 2" |
1993 | The Poetry Hall of Fame | John Keats | Television film |
1994 | The Chief | Milverton | Episode #4.8 |
1995 | Pie in the Sky | Maurice Plummer | Episode: "Brown Bread" |
1995 | The Last Englishman | Air Commodore Boyle | Television film |
1997 | The Woman in White | Asylum Proprietor | |
1998 | Midsomer Murders | Avery Phillips | Episode: "Death of a Hollow Man" |
1998 | Animated Epics: Beowulf | Aschere | Television film |
1999 | Great Expectations | John Wemmick | |
2000 | The Mrs Bradley Mysteries | John Forrester | Episode: "The Rising of the Moon" |
2000 | Conspiracy | Otto Hofmann | Television film |
2001 | Waking the Dead | Reece Dickson | 2 episodes |
2002 | Animated Tales of the World | Greengrocer / Leader of Primitives | Episode: "The Crown and Sceptre" |
2002 | Helen West | Brian Redwood | 3 episodes |
2003 | A Touch of Frost | Anton Caldwell | Episode: "Held in Trust" |
2004 | The Last Detective | Gerald Leyman | Episode: "Christine" |
2005 | Doc Martin | Victor | Episode: "Blood Is Thicker" |
2005–2007 | Rome | Posca | 17 episodes |
2006 | Eleventh Hour | Martin Callan | Episode: "Containment" |
2007 | Rough Diamond | Russian Ambassador | Episode: "Old Gold" |
2008 | Foyle's War | Josef Novak | Episode: "Broken Souls" |
2008 | Poppy Shakespeare | Professor | Television film |
2008 | Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story | Harman Grisewood | |
2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Michael Warren | |
2010 | Borgen | Alexander Grozin | Episode: "Statsbesøg" |
2011 | The Hour | Professor Beckett | 2 episodes |
2011 | Shameless | Isaac | Episode: "Frank Gallagher: Sent By God" |
2012 | Silk | Professor Stephen Nyman | Episode #2.4 |
2012 | Secret State | Lord Justice Holbeck | Episode #1.2 |
2012 | Loving Miss Hatto | Erich | Television film |
2013 | It's Kevin | Various | Episode #1.6 |
2013 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Detective Sergeant Hoskins | Episode: "Dead Man's Folly" |
2013 | Ripper Street | Dr. William Corcoran | Episode: "Am I Not Monstrous?" |
2013 | The Escape Artist | George Balfour QC | 3 episodes |
2013 | Moonfleet | Bailiff | 2 episodes |
2014 | The Assets | Volkov | |
2014 | The Honourable Woman | Judah Ben-Shahar | 4 episodes |
2014 | New Tricks | Viktor Proust | Episode: "The English Defence" |
2014 | Mapp and Lucia | Algernon Wyse | 3 episodes |
2014 | Borgia | Alonso Pimental | 2 episodes |
2015 | The Eichmann Show | Yaakov Jonilowicz | Television film |
2015 | Inspector George Gently | Norman | Episode: "Breathe in the Air" |
2016 | The Living and the Dead | Matthew Denning | 6 episodes |
2016 | Friday Night Dinner | Rabbi | Episode: "The Funeral" |
2016–2017 | Holby City | Artem Chernik | 3 episodes |
2017 | Delicious | Allen Billington | Episode: "Funeral Plans" |
2017 | Taboo | Robert Thoyt | 5 episodes |
2017 | Will | Phillip Henslowe | 3 episodes |
2019 | Baptiste | Peter | Episode: "Shell" |
2020 | Quiz | Nicholas Hilliard QC | 2 episodes |
2021 | Silent Witness | Derek Galton | |
2023 | A Paris Proposal | Jacques Laurent | Television film |
2024 | Father Brown | Bernard Ross | Episode: "The Dead of Night" |
References
- ^ a b c "Companies House - Heathfield Court (Chiswick) Limited". The Gazette. 10 November 2005. p. 2. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson - Heathfield Court (Chiswick) Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson - British Equity Collecting Society Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE and More Nominated For UK Theatre Awards; Full List!". Broadway World. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Actor: Nicholas Woodeson". UK Jewish Film. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ISBN 9-7819-8062-5452.
- ^ IMDB – Harman Grisewood (Character) from 'Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008) (TV)
- user-generated source]
- ^ "The Assets (TV Mini Series 2014) - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ "Cast announced for BBC One's adaptation of EF Benson's Mapp And Lucia". BBC. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
External links
- Nicholas Woodeson at IMDb