Education
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
Bob Goody trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist He played various characters with the company, including: the Ghost, the Player King and the Gravedigger in Hamlet. In 1987 he toured as Doctor Pinch in The Comedy of Errors and as the Ghost and the Gravedigger in Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
In 1991 he played the Chief Weasel in Alan Bennett"s adaptation of The Wind in the Willows for the National Theatre at The Old Vic in London.
Goody made his first television appearance in The Devil"s Crown (1978), and went on to appear in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979), Robin"s Nest (1980), Smith and Goody (as writer and actor) (1980), Luna (1983), Bleak House (1985), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1985), Porterhouse Blue (1987), Selling Hitler (1991), Blue Heaven (1992), The Blackheath Poisonings (1992), Lovejoy (1993), Screen Two (1993), Paul Merton"s Life of Comedy (1995), McCallum (1997), Danny the caretaker in seven episodes of Crime Traveller (1997), Lock, Stock. (2000), Dark Realm (2001), Doctors (2003), four episodes of The Bill (1989-2004), Hotel Babylon (2008), Crusoe (2008), EastEnders (2011), Gustave in X Company (2015) and Squire in Cider with Rosie (2015).
He was a founder member of the acclaimed theatre company Shared Experience performing the Arabian Nights trilogy. While Goody and Mel Smith were working on a two-man show at the Traverse Theatre, they teamed up with composer Peter Brewis and together created three black comedy musicals, "Avenue You "Eard the One About Joey Baker?, Irony in Dorking which won a Fringe First Award and The Gambler whose 1986 revival at the Hampstead Theatre was nominated for an Olivier Award and was also recorded by the specialist musical theatre label First Night Records.
