Biography
Nicholas Woodeson (born November 30, 1949) is an English film, television and theatre actor, and Drama Desk and Olivier award nominee. Woodeson was born in Sudan and lived in the Middle East as a boy. He started performing at prep school in Sussex, and Marlborough College. He read English at the University of Sussex, and became involved in student drama productions, where he met Michael Attenborough, Jim Carter, and Andy de la Tour. He took part in the 1970 National Student Drama Festival. Next...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
2025
as Steven
Wendy Darling strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan who intends to send him to Neverland. Al...

A Paris Proposal
2023
as Jacques
Emily and Sebastian travel to his hometown of Paris to land the Ad account of famed Durand Diamonds and end up in a tricky situation when the client m...

Firebird
2021
as Colonel Kuznetsov
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerou...

On the Beaches
2019
as Albert Einstein
England, 1933. Runaway siblings Kitty and David's game of soldiers takes a surprising turn when they find their clifftop hideout occupied by Jewish re...

The Hustle
2019
as Albert
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comed...

Disobedience
2018
as Rabbi Goldfarb
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish com...

Beirut
2018
as Herzerg
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsibl...

Paddington 2
2017
as Insurance Company CEO
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

The Death of Stalin
2017
as Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl...

The Limehouse Golem
2016
as Toby Dosett
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – m...

Race
2016
as Fred Rubien
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage ...

Ramona & The Chair
2016
as Priest
Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty ch...

The Danish Girl
2015
as Dr. Buson
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as L...

The Eichmann Show
2015
as Yaakov Jonilowicz
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous...

Mr. Turner
2014
as Gentleman Critic
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...

Loving Miss Hatto
2012
as Erich
Drama inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Victoria Wood's new strange-but-true drama about musical deception and enduring lov...

Skyfall
2012
as Doctor Hall
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...

Hannah Arendt
2012
as William Shawn
HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann...

John Carter
2012
as Dalton
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctant...

Hysteria
2011
as Dr. Richardson
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Michael Warren
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to c...

Pope Joan
2009
as Arighis
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008
as Harman Grisewood
The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.

Poppy Shakespeare
2008
as Professor
N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new pati...

Amazing Grace
2006
as Harrison
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, bu...

Christine
2004
as Gerald Leyman
Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.

One of the Hollywood Ten
2002
as Bill
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

Conspiracy
2001
as Otto Hofmann
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish...

Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Mr. Seymour
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Mr. Dian
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell ...

Mad Cows
1999
as Detective Slynne
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up...

Great Expectations
1999
as Wemmick
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imag...

The Avengers
1998
as Dr. Darling
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the worl...

Titanic Town
1998
as Jeremy Immonger
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally sho...

The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
as Sergei
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot un...

Shooting Fish
1997
as Mr Collyns
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

The Woman In White
1997
as Asylum Proprietor
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving...

Men of the Month
1994
as Keith
Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women...

The Pelican Brief
1993
as Stump
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

Maria's Child
1993
as Roland
Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the fa...

Hedda Gabler
1993
as Jorgen Tesman
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up...

The Blackheath Poisonings
1992
as Bertie Williams
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in busine...

Bad Girl
1992
as Geoff Harris
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.

A Fatal Inversion
1992
as Inspector Winder
Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to s...

My Kingdom for a Horse
1991
as Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
Steve Deakin teaches history and is a foot soldier in the Sealed Knot Society. In a fortnight between two English Civil War battles he finds he faces ...

The Russia House
1990
as Niki Landau
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...

Max and Helen
1990
as Martin Greenbaum
In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated b...

Piaf
1984
as Emil / Jacko
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage pl...

Heaven's Gate
1980
as Small man
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished imm...

Savage House
N/A
as Mr. Brimsby
Set against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – this is a timely and darkly satirical story of Sir C...

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
N/A
as Steven
When Peter Pan and Tinker Bell assemble an evil team with Mary Poppins, Winnie and his friends assemble a team to face them. Including Bambi, Piglet, ...