Henry Woolf in Rutland - I think he's a funny guy. Anyone got any Woolf info. Posted Thu Sep 6 18:26:41 BST 2001 by 'Bullets Won't Stop Them!'

Henry Woolf is, in my opinion, terrific in RWT. He's a natural comedy actor and has been foolishly overlooked since.

Quick Woolf facts -

1 First person to direct a Harold Pinter play (The Room).

2 Has known Pinter since childhood.

3 Provides the one decent sight gag in Cook/Moore's Hound of the Baskervilles.

4 Teaches in Canada these days.

Any more facts anyone.

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Posted By 'Mike4SOTCAA' on Thu Sep 6 18:43:23 BST 2001:

He was in Steptoe & Son, playing a protection racketeer. He was bloody scary too.

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Posted By 'Jake Thingy' on Thu Sep 6 18:56:45 BST 2001:

"Nothing personal Harold, this is just pour encourager les autrays...."

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Posted By Joe4SOTCAA on Thu Sep 6 19:00:52 BST 2001:

he presented 'Words & Pictures' on BBC2. Just after Tony Robinson finished his stint I think (I often got the two muddled up during childhood).

Oh, and he was the creepy wedding photographer at the start of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Posted By TJ on Thu Sep 6 20:06:33 BST 2001:

Also appeared in the "Doctor Who" story 'The Sunmakers', a dark satire of taxation-driven societies.

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Posted By 'Jake Thingy' on Thu Sep 6 20:29:43 BST 2001:

He also starred in a terrible early 70's "sex comedy" - THE LOVE PILL, as a character called Libido - but then, which British comedy actor of the time didn't.

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Posted By 'Arthur Sultan' on Fri Sep 7 13:58:26 BST 2001:

Not only the creepy photographer, but also one of the Transylvanians, along with Christopher Biggins, in the aforemensched Rocky Horror fillum (Koo Stark also appears in this film as a bridesmaid. That's interesting, isn't it? He's also on various poses in The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book, including one picture which shows his cheeky,cherubic features with the accompanying headline "Take Off Your Clothes AND LIVE!". wHEN i SHOWED MY MATE (Who only knew Woolfie from "Words and Pictures")this particular page, I thoight he would expire from laughter.

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Posted By Unruly Butler on Fri Sep 7 17:06:03 BST 2001:

His fantastic voice is my definitive Words and Pictures memory.

Worrrrds.

Annnnd.

Pictuuuuuuures.

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Posted By 'Bullets Won't Stop Them!' on Fri Sep 7 22:47:10 BST 2001:

Woolf's great comedy voice put the following line from RWT 'Hendon' into some kind of stratosphere of comedy - well it made me bark out laughing anyway.

"Arry Cox! Oii wahhd loik to arrsk the pahhnel whaahht they think aahhbaaht iinvvlaaahhshunn".

It's recited in a West Country accent, you understand.

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Posted By 'DS' on Sat Sep 8 17:55:29 BST 2001:

I agree about Henry - and i think David Battley is really good in RWT too. What's *he* doing now?

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