Biography
Norman Wooland was an English character actor. Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, to British parents, he began his career in theatre and worked as a BBC radio announcer during the Second World War.
His breakthrough came with the role of Horatio in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948). He appeared in other Shakespeare adaptations directed by or starring Olivier, including Catesby in Richard III (1955) and Paris in Romeo and Juliet (1954). Wooland also had supporting roles in Quo Vadis (1951) as Nerva, Ivanhoe (1952) as King Richard, The Guns of Navarone (1961) as Group Captain, Barabbas (1961) as Rufio and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as Virgilianus.
He worked in film, radio and television from the 1930s until the 1980s.
