Background
Aubrey Woods was born on 9 April 1928, in London, and educated at The Latymer School in Edmonton, North London.
Aubrey Woods was born on 9 April 1928, in London, and educated at The Latymer School in Edmonton, North London.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
His first film role was as Smike in. On stage he played the role of Fagin in Lionel Baronet"s production of Oliver! at the New Theatre, Street Martin"s Lane in the 1960s alongside Nicolette Roeg and Robert Bridges. He played Alfred Jingle in the television musical Pickwick for the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1969.
His television credits include Z-Cars, Up Pompeii!, Doctor Who (in the serial Day of the Daleks where he played a Controller in an alternate 22nd Century), Blake"s 7, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Ever Decreasing Circles.
He also appeared as Jacob and Potiphar in the 1991 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium, the soundtrack of which topped the British albums chart in August 1991. Radio credits include the original radio series of The Hitchhiker"s Guide to the Galaxy, appearing in Fit the Sixth.
He dramatised East. F. Benson"s 1932 comic novel "Secret Lives" in three parts for British Broadcasting Corporation radio, and was also the narrator. Woods died on 7 May 2013, at his home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, aged 85.