John Wood

John Wood

1930-07-05 Derbyshire, England, UK 59 Credits

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

The White Countess

2005

as Prince Peter Belinskya

6.2
Acting

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

The Rocket Post

2004

as Sir Wilson Ramsay

5.6
Acting

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

The Return of the Dancing Master

2004

as Jonas Andersson

4.9
Acting

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

Imagining Argentina

2003

as Amos Sternberg

5.6
Acting

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

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

2002

as Wetherby

6.3
Acting

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

The Body

2001

as Cardinal Pesci

5.5
Acting

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

Chocolat

2000

as Guillaume Blerot

7.0
Acting

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

The Little Vampire

2000

as Lord McAshton

6.9
Acting

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

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance

2000

as Charles Leadbeater

5.8
Acting

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

Longitude

2000

as Sir Edmund Halley

7.2
Acting

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

Mad Cows

Mad Cows

1999

as Alistair

3.6
Acting

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

The Venice Project

1999

as The Viscount

5.0
Acting

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

An Ideal Husband

1999

as Lord Caversham

6.5
Acting

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

The Avengers

1998

as Trubshaw

4.4
Acting

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

The Revengers' Comedies

1998

as Col. Marcus

5.8
Acting

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

The Gambler

1997

as The General

4.9
Acting

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

Metroland

1997

as The Retired Commuter

5.8
Acting

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

Rasputin

1996

as Prime Minister Stolypin

6.5
Acting

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

Jane Eyre

1996

as Mr. Brocklehurst

6.9
Acting

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

Richard III

1995

as King Edward IV

6.7
Acting

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

Sabrina

1995

as Fairchild

6.2
Acting

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

Citizen X

1995

as Gorbunov

7.2
Acting

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

The Madness of King George

1994

as Thurlow

6.8
Acting

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

Uncovered

1994

as Cesar

5.6
Acting

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

Shadowlands

1993

as Christopher Riley

6.9
Acting

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

The Summer House

The Summer House

1993

as Robert

5.4
Acting

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

The Young Americans

1993

as Richard Donnelly

5.8
Acting

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

Orlando

1992

as Archduke Harry

6.9
Acting

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

Memento Mori

1992

as Ex-Inspector Henry Mortimer

6.2
Acting

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

1987

as Sir Toby Belch

4.5
Acting

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

Jumpin' Jack Flash

1986

as Jeremy Talbott

6.1
Acting

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

Heartburn

1986

as British Moderator

6.0
Acting

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

Lady Jane

1986

as John Dudley, Duke of Nothumberland

6.9
Acting

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

The Empty Beach

1985

as Parker

3.2
Acting

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

Ladyhawke

1985

as Bishop of Aquila

7.0
Acting

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

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985

as Jason

7.4
Acting

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

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Computers... But Were Afraid to Ask

1984

Acting

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

WarGames

1983

as Stephen Falken

7.1
Acting

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

Marriage

1981

as Councillor Podkolyossin

Acting

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

Somebody Killed Her Husband

1978

as Ernest Van Stanten

5.1
Acting

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

Blue Fire Lady

1977

as Gus

6.5
Acting

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

Slaughterhouse-Five

1972

as English Officer

6.5
Acting

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

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Col. Kobylinsky

6.9
Acting

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?

Which Way to the Front?

1970

as Finkel

4.8
Acting

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

One More Time

1970

as Figg

4.3
Acting

London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

Poor Cherry

Poor Cherry

1967

as Brian

Acting

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

Just Like a Woman

1967

as John Martin

5.0
Acting

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

A Choice of Coward: Design for Living

1964

as Otto

Acting

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

The Mouse on the Moon

1963

as Countryman

5.9
Acting

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

Love Is a Ball

1963

as Julian Soames

4.6
Acting

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

Just for Fun

1963

as Official

3.7
Acting

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

That Kind of Girl

1963

as Doctor

5.6
Acting

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

Postman's Knock

1962

as P.C. Woods

4.3
Acting

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

The Rebel

1961

as Poet

7.8
Acting

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

Jazz Boat

1960

as Benson - Jeweller's Assistant

6.0
Acting

A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.

The Challenge

The Challenge

1960

as School Inspector

5.3
Acting

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

Idol on Parade

1959

as Jeremy

7.0
Acting

A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

Oh, Boy!

Oh, Boy!

1938

as Man

Acting

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 ...