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name: "Peter Woodthorpe"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 September 1931"
died: "12 August 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-18T07:56:39.708031+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Peter Woodthorpe

Actor. Born 25 September 1931 in York, England, UK. Died 12 August 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 September 1931, York, England, UK
- **Died:** 12 August 2004
- **Active:** 1987–1994
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 1990s 83 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Woodthorpe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200676, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16382

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Inspector Morse*](https://film.one/tv/inspector-morse.md) (84)

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## Biography

Peter Woodthorpe (1931–2004) was an English character actor whose career spanned stage, film and television. Born in York, he was educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and completed National Service in the Royal Navy before making his professional stage debut in 1955 as Estragon in the first British production of Samuel Beckett's *Waiting for Godot*.

Woodthorpe appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and on Broadway. He supplied the voice of Gollum in the 1978 animated *The Lord of the Rings* and the BBC radio adaptation, and played Reg Trotter in the 1983 *Only Fools and Horses* Christmas special. On television he portrayed Dr. Max DeBryn in the first two series of *Inspector Morse* (1987–1988). His film roles included *The Blue Max* (1966), *The Madness of King George* (1994) and *David Copperfield* (2000).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Madness of King George* (1994), Fi1m 83, as Clergyman — [page](https://film.one/film/the-madness-of-king-george.md)
- *Inspector Morse* (1987), Fi1m 84, as Dr. Max DeBryn — [page](https://film.one/tv/inspector-morse.md)

## Complete filmography (45)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *David Copperfield* (2001), as Creakle
- *David Copperfield* (2000), series, as Creakle
- *The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka* (1999), as 3rd Official
- *The Odyssey* (1997), series, as Mentor
- *David* (1997), as Nabal
- *Jane Eyre* (1996), Acting
- *The Madness of King George* (1994), as Clergyman — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-madness-of-king-george.md)
- *Julius Caesar* (1994), as Casca
- *The Boot Street Band* (1993), series, Acting
- *Red Hot* (1993), Acting
- *Bonjour la Classe* (1993), series, Acting
- *Shakespeare: The Animated Tales* (1992), series, as Casca (voice)
- *Massacre Play* (1989), as Straccalino
- *Testimony* (1988), as Alexander Glazunov
- *The Trial of Klaus Barbie* (1987), as Streim
- *Inspector Morse* (1987), series, as Dr. Max DeBryn — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/inspector-morse.md)
- *A Christmas Carol* (1984), as Old Joe
- *To Catch a King* (1984), as Becker
- *Puccini* (1984), as Umberto Manfredi
- *Floating Off* (1983), as Jack Humpage
- *Red Monarch* (1983), as Malenkov
- *The Mirror Crack'd* (1980), as Scout Master
- *Minder* (1979), series, as Lent
- *The Talking Parcel* (1978), as Werewolf
- *The Lord of the Rings* (1978), as Gollum (voice)
- *Monkey* (1978), series, as Voice of Pigsy
- *Strangers* (1978), series, as Rupert Marshal
- *The Professionals* (1977), series, as Councillor Webb
- *Fall of Eagles* (1974), series, as Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
- *The Lotus Eaters* (1972), series, as Jervis Duncan
- *On Reflection: B.S. Johnson on Dr. Samuel Johnson* (1972), Acting
- *Manhunt* (1970), series, as Sergeant Adler
- *The Charge of the Light Brigade* (1968), as Cardigan's Valet
- *Omnibus* (1967), series, as Cipolla, the 'magician'
- *Man in a Suitcase* (1967), series, Acting
- *The Blue Max* (1966), as Rupp
- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1966), series, as Quasimodo
- *The Skull* (1965), as Bert Travers, Marco's Landlord
- *Hysteria* (1965), as Marcus Allan
- *The Evil of Frankenstein* (1964), as Prof. Zoltan
- *Theatre 625* (1964), series, as Bitos / Robespierre, Grimketel, Martin, Counsel for the Prosecution
- *Father Came Too!* (1964), as Farmer
- *The Three Sisters* (1963), as Andrei
- *No Hiding Place* (1959), series, as Frank Harris
- *Theatre Night* (1957), series, as Noaks

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