Career
He began acting towards the end of the Second World War and turned professional shortly afterwards, working in repertory theatre and touring the United Kingdom. He acted on live television in Granada during the 1950s, whilst at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield. Woolgar was often cast as a dirty old tramp. He had parts in an episode of The Avengers ("The Living Dead"), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (its first adaptation as a television series, by Independent Television in 1967), Please Sir (" The Generation Gap"), The Onedin Lincolnshire, The Sweeney ("Jigsaw") and Doctor Who (The Web of Fear).
He also appeared as Sam Carne in the soap opera Crossroads.