Savage House
2026 · Movie
as Mr. Brimsby, Jeweller
Nicholas Woodeson
1949-11-30
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England, UK
Nicholas Woodeson (born November 30, 1949) is an English film, television and theatre actor, and Drama Desk and Olivier award nominee. Woodeson was born in Sudan and lived in the Middle East as a boy. He started performing at prep school in Sussex, and Marlborough College. He read English at the University of Sussex, and became involved in student drama productions, where he met Michael Attenborough, Jim Carter, and Andy de la Tour. He took part in the 1970 National Student Drama Festival. Next was a season in rep at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, after deciding not to pursue an academic career. He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1972–74). His first work after drama school was a season at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1974–75), in a company that included Jonathan Pryce (artistic director), Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy. He has worked in regional theatre in the UK and US, at the Hampstead Theatre Club, the Young Vic and the Almeida Theatre in London and at the Manhattan Theatre Club (Off-Broadway). He joined the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1982 and worked with them for seven years. On Broadway his work includes Straker in Man and Superman (1978), Piaf (1981), Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (1995), and Burleigh in Mary Stuart (2009). In 2011, he played Mr Prince in the National Theatre revival of Odets' Rocket to the Moon. He has appeared in the West End in Funny Peculiar (1976), in Good (1982) (also Broadway), as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (2009), as Bonesy in Jumpers (2003) (also Broadway), as Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (2012), and as Harold Wilson in The Audience (2015). He has been in two productions of Pinter's 'The Birthday Party', playing McCann at the National Theatre in 1994, and Goldberg in the Lyric Hammersmith's 50th centenary production in 2008, and two productions of Pinter's The Homecoming, playing Lenny in the 25th Anniversary West End revival in 1991, and Max at the RSC in 2011. In 2017, following the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, he took over the role of Willy Loman in the Royal & Derngate theatre's tour of Death of a Salesman, for which he was nominated for a UK Theatre Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role. Woodeson's first film work was a role in Heaven's Gate, released in 1980. By chance, he spent more time on location in Montana than any other actor in the film. He has also appeared in, among others, The Russia House (1990), The Pelican Brief (1993), Shooting Fish (1997), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Titanic Town (1998), The Avengers (1998), Mad Cows (1999), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999), Amazing Grace (2006), Hannah Arendt (2012), the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), Mr. Turner (2014), The Danish Girl (2015), Race (2016), Disobedience (2017), The Death of Stalin (2017) and The Hustle (2019).
Filmography
Falling
2026 · TV Show
as Father Victor
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
2025 · Movie
as Steven
Death by Lightning
2025 · TV Show
as Loeffler
The Agency
2024 · TV Show
as Ancient Gem Dealer
A Paris Proposal
2023 · Movie
as Jacques
Beyond Paradise
2023 · TV Show
as Father Brian
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022 · TV Show
as Diarmid
Firebird
2021 · Movie
as Polkovnik Kuznetsov
Quiz
2020 · TV Show
as Nicholas Hilliard QC
The Hustle
2019 · Movie
as Albert
On the Beaches
2019 · Movie
as Albert Einstein
Beirut
2018 · Movie
as Herzerg
Disobedience
2018 · Movie
as Rabbi Goldfarb
Paddington 2
2017 · Movie
as Insurance Company CEO
The Death of Stalin
2017 · Movie
as Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
Taboo
2017 · TV Show
as Robert Thoyt
Will
2017 · TV Show
as Phillip Henslowe
Ramona & The Chair
2016 · Movie
as Priest
Race
2016 · Movie
as Fred Rubien
The Limehouse Golem
2016 · Movie
as Toby Dosett
Delicious
2016 · TV Show
as Allen Billington
The Living and the Dead
2016 · TV Show
as Reverend Matthew Denning
The Eichmann Show
2015 · Movie
as Yaakov Jonilowicz
The Danish Girl
2015 · Movie
as Dr. Buson
Mr. Turner
2014 · Movie
as Gentleman Critic
Mapp and Lucia
2014 · TV Show
as Algernon Wyse
The Escape Artist
2013 · TV Show
as George Balfour QC
It's Kevin
2013 · TV Show
as Various
Skyfall
2012 · Movie
as Doctor Hall
Hannah Arendt
2012 · Movie
as William Shawn
John Carter
2012 · Movie
as Dalton
Loving Miss Hatto
2012 · Movie
as Erich
Ripper Street
2012 · TV Show
as Dr. William Corcoran
Secret State
2012 · TV Show
as Lord Justice Holbeck
Hysteria
2011 · Movie
as Dr. Richardson
Friday Night Dinner
2011 · TV Show
as Rabbi
Silk
2011 · TV Show
as Professor Stephen Nyman
Borgen
2010 · TV Show
as Alexander Grozin
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009 · Movie
as Michael Warren
Pope Joan
2009 · Movie
as Arighis
Red Riding
2009 · TV Show
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008 · Movie
as Harman Grisewood
Poppy Shakespeare
2008 · Movie
as Professor
Amazing Grace
2006 · Movie
as Harrison
Eleventh Hour
2006 · TV Show
Rome
2005 · TV Show
as Posca
Christine
2004 · Movie
as Gerald Leyman
New Tricks
2004 · TV Show
as Viktor Proust
Shameless
2004 · TV Show
as Isaac
One of the Hollywood Ten
2002 · Movie
as Bill
Helen West
2002 · TV Show
as Brian Redwood
Foyle's War
2002 · TV Show
as Josef Novak
Conspiracy
2001 · Movie
as Otto Hofmann
Waking the Dead
2001 · TV Show
as Reese Dickson, Solicitor
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · Movie
as Mr. Dian
Great Expectations
1999 · Movie
as Wemmick
Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Movie
as Mr. Seymour
Mad Cows
1999 · Movie
as Detective Slynne
Great Expectations
1999 · TV Show
as Wemmick
The Avengers
1998 · Movie
as Dr. Darling
Titanic Town
1998 · Movie
as Jeremy Immonger
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997 · Movie
as Sergei
Shooting Fish
1997 · Movie
as Mr Collyns
The Woman In White
1997 · Movie
as Asylum Proprietor
The Woman In White
1997 · TV Show
as Asylum Proprietor
Silent Witness
1996 · TV Show
as Derek Galton
Men of the Month
1994 · Movie
as Keith
Pie in the Sky
1994 · TV Show
as Maurice Plummer
Maria's Child
1993 · Movie
as Roland
Hedda Gabler
1993 · Movie
as Jorgen Tesman
The Pelican Brief
1993 · Movie
as Stump
Bonjour la Classe
1993 · TV Show
Cracker
1993 · TV Show
as Hennessy
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
1993 · TV Show
as Brother Moses
The Blackheath Poisonings
1993 · TV Show
as Bertie Williams
Bad Girl
1992 · Movie
as Geoff Harris
A Fatal Inversion
1992 · Movie
as Inspector Winder
The Blackheath Poisonings
1992 · Movie
as Bertie Williams
A Touch of Frost
1992 · TV Show
as Anton Caldwell
My Kingdom for a Horse
1991 · Movie
as Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
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The Wolvis Family
1991 · TV Show
For the Greater Good
1991 · TV Show
as Michael Parke-Walsh MP
Performance
1991 · TV Show
as Jorgen Tesman
Max and Helen
1990 · Movie
as Martin Greenbaum
The Russia House
1990 · Movie
as Niki Landau
The Chief
1990 · TV Show
as Milverton
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV Show
as Detective Sergeant Hoskins
Blackeyes
1989 · TV Show
as Stilk
Casualty
1986 · TV Show
as Jack Clayton
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV Show
as Geoff Harris
Piaf
1984 · Movie
as Emil / Jacko
Miami Vice
1984 · TV Show
as Artie Cross
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1982 · TV Show
as Sir Henry Baskerville
Heaven's Gate
1980 · Movie
as Small man
A Rumor of War
1980 · TV Show
as Cpl. Kazmarak
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
· Movie
as Steven
Untitled Tinkerbell Movie
· Movie
as Steven
No image
Golden Boy
· Movie
