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Jack Woolgar is a Actor British born on 15 september 1913
Jack Woolgar (15 September 1913 – 14 July 1978) was a British character actor working in television and film in the 1960s and 1970s. He began acting towards the end of the Second World War and turned professional shortly afterwards, working in repertory theatre and touring the UK. He acted on live TV in Granada during the 1950s, whilst at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield.
Woolgar was often cast as a dirty old tramp. Due to lifelong chest problems, he was able to produce a bubbling hacking cough at will and appeared as the coal miner father in Stand Up, Nigel Barton, an autobiographical play by Dennis Potter. He had parts in an episode of The Avengers ("The Living Dead"), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (its first adaptation as a TV series, by ITV in 1967), The Onedin Line, The Sweeney ("Jigsaw") and Doctor Who (The Web of Fear). He also appeared as Sam Carne in the soap opera Crossroads.
He was married to the RADA trained actress Elizabeth Mann (13 July 1920 – 18 February 1980) and had four children.
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Birth name Jack William Woolgar
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 september 1913
Death 14 july 1978 (at 64 years) at Huddersfield (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 september 1913
Death 14 july 1978 (at 64 years) at Huddersfield (United-kingdom)
Woolgar was often cast as a dirty old tramp. Due to lifelong chest problems, he was able to produce a bubbling hacking cough at will and appeared as the coal miner father in Stand Up, Nigel Barton, an autobiographical play by Dennis Potter. He had parts in an episode of The Avengers ("The Living Dead"), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (its first adaptation as a TV series, by ITV in 1967), The Onedin Line, The Sweeney ("Jigsaw") and Doctor Who (The Web of Fear). He also appeared as Sam Carne in the soap opera Crossroads.
He was married to the RADA trained actress Elizabeth Mann (13 July 1920 – 18 February 1980) and had four children.
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Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
, 1h33Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Murray Head, Nigel Green, Robert Hardy, Ciaran Madden, Anthony Sharp, David Leland
Roles Porter
Rating54%
The mysterious Green Knight appears before King Arthur's court in the New Year and demands the head of Sir Gawain as the prize in a bizarre game. Given a year's grace, Gawain sets off in search of the Knight for a rematch.
Death Line (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Christopher Lee, David Ladd, Clive Swift, James Cossins
Roles Platform Inspector
Rating58%
A family of cannibals descended from Victorian railway workers, who were buried alive during construction, continue to dwell in the disused lines of the London Underground tube network. The last member of the family frequently visits the neighbouring Russell Square and Holborn stations to pick off passengers for food, then takes them back to the gruesome 'pantry' at an incomplete station. When the cannibal kidnaps and kills an important politician, he is hunted by a detective as well as an American college student and his English girlfriend who were the last to see the victim in the tube station. Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington star as the investigating police officers. At the climax, when finally cornered and with his wife and the last of his family members dead from disease, the cannibal screams a corrupted form of "Mind the doors!", having picked it up parrot-fashion from the guards on the Underground trains.
Say Hello to Yesterday (1971)
, 1h36Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting, Evelyn Laye, Jack Woolgar, John Lee, Derek Francis
Rating57%
From one of the upper middle class suburbs of London, the Woman, having just quarrelled with her husband is going to London, shopping. Unhappily she drives to the station. Among the crowd as she boards the train is the Boy. He is 22 today. He is bored. He is determined to make the day a different one.
The Raging Moon (1971)
, 1h50Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Barry Jackson, Bernard Lee, Gerald Sim
Roles Bruce's Father
Rating68%
Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) is a 24-year-old working-class man and amateur soccer player with a passion for life. All this changes when he suddenly finds himself struck down by an incurable degenerative disease and confined for the rest of his life to a wheelchair. He makes a self-imposed exile to a church-run home for the disabled, believing that it is best for his immediate family to forget about him the way he is now. His bitterness at his fate and his dislike of the rules and regulations of the place only serve to make him more withdrawn and angry at his enforced imprisonment.
Where's Jack? (1969)
Directed by James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Actors Stanley Baker, Tommy Steele, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Michael Douglas
Roles Mr Woods
Rating64%
Hammerhead (1968)
, 1h39Directed by David Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Spy, Horror
Themes Spy films
Actors Vince Edwards, Judy Geeson, Peter Vaughan, Diana Dors, Michael Bates, Beverly Adams
Roles Tookey Tate
Rating51%
British intelligence asks a soldier of fortune, Charles Hood, to go to Portugal and help stop an international criminal mastermind called Hammerhead who plans to steal a secret report on nuclear defense.