Biography
John Wood (5 July 1930 – 6 August 2011) was an English stage and screen actor known for his distinguished career in both classical and contemporary theater. He was born on July 5, 1930, in Derbyshire, England. Wood gained prominence as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he performed in numerous Shakespearean productions. Wood's notable stage roles include performances in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," "The Rivals," and "Travesties," among many others. He also appeared in...
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The White Countess
2005
as Prince Peter Belinskya
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American ...

The Rocket Post
2004
as Sir Wilson Ramsay
Switch off and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Scotland. Based on fact, this film will take you on a journey of love amidst spectacular scenery. The R...

The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
as Jonas Andersson
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town ...

Imagining Argentina
2003
as Amos Sternberg
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his...

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
2002
as Wetherby
In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindl...
Gay Propaganda
2002
Sound
All your favorite Hollywood movies...only now completely gay and lesbian!

The Body
2001
as Cardinal Pesci
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was cru...

Chocolat
2000
as Guillaume Blerot
A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they r...

The Little Vampire
2000
as Lord McAshton
Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with ...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
2000
as Charles Leadbeater
The elder Jones's lecture tour takes parents and son to India, where Indy explores the meaning of faith in oneself with Theosophist philosopher Jiddu ...

Longitude
2000
as Sir Edmund Halley
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Mad Cows
1999
as Alistair
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...

The Venice Project
1999
as The Viscount
Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and ann...

An Ideal Husband
1999
as Lord Caversham
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London w...

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

The Revengers' Comedies
1998
as Col. Marcus
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin ...

The Gambler
1997
as The General
Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him ...

Metroland
1997
as The Retired Commuter
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unex...

Rasputin
1996
as Prime Minister Stolypin
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of...

Jane Eyre
1996
as Mr. Brocklehurst
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Richard III
1995
as King Edward IV
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil...

Sabrina
1995
as Fairchild
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of pr...

Citizen X
1995
as Gorbunov
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17...

The Madness of King George
1994
as Thurlow
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu...

Uncovered
1994
as Cesar
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, pa...

Shadowlands
1993
as Christopher Riley
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

The Summer House
1993
as Robert
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still l...

The Young Americans
1993
as Richard Donnelly
Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by ...

Orlando
1992
as Archduke Harry
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to sat...

Memento Mori
1992
as Ex-Inspector Henry Mortimer
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Twelfth Night
1987
as Sir Toby Belch
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into ...

Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
as Jeremy Talbott
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown s...

Heartburn
1986
as British Moderator
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...

Lady Jane
1986
as John Dudley, Duke of Nothumberland
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep E...

The Empty Beach
1985
as Parker
Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of g...

Ladyhawke
1985
as Bishop of Aquila
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his...

The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
as Jason
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. ...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Computers... But Were Afraid to Ask
1984
Do home computers scare you. confuse you—make you want to curl up in a ball and hide? As the computer revolution explodes into our lives, it's comfort...

WarGames
1983
as Stephen Falken
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwitt...

Marriage
1981
as Councillor Podkolyossin
Councillor Podkolyossin has called on the services of Madame Fyokla, the matchmaker - decision he is already beginning to regret. Against his better j...

Somebody Killed Her Husband
1978
as Ernest Van Stanten
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Blue Fire Lady
1977
as Gus
Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ...

Slaughterhouse-Five
1972
as English Officer
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to h...

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Col. Kobylinsky
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Which Way to the Front?
1970
as Finkel
Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not ta...

One More Time
1970
as Figg
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

Poor Cherry
1967
as Brian
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other...

Just Like a Woman
1967
as John Martin
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewi...

A Choice of Coward: Design for Living
1964
as Otto
A comedy concerning a trio of artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo, and their complicated three-way relationship (Episode of A Choice of Coward).

The Mouse on the Moon
1963
as Countryman
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new s...

Love Is a Ball
1963
as Julian Soames
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riv...

Just for Fun
1963
as Official
When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own ...

That Kind of Girl
1963
as Doctor
That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it wa...

Postman's Knock
1962
as P.C. Woods
Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Inn...

The Rebel
1961
as Poet
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Never...

Jazz Boat
1960
as Benson - Jeweller's Assistant
A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.

The Challenge
1960
as School Inspector
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

Idol on Parade
1959
as Jeremy
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

Oh, Boy!
1938
as Man
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival ...