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Tim Woodward

Timothy Oliver Woodward (24 April 1953 – 9 November 2023) was an English actor.

Tim Woodward

Timothy Oliver Woodward

(1953-04-24)24 April 1953
Kensington, London, England

9 November 2023(2023-11-09) (aged 70)

British

Actor

1974–2023

Edward Woodward
Venetia Barrett

Peter Woodward (brother)
Sarah Woodward (sister)

Early life and education[edit]

Timothy Oliver Woodward was born in Kensington, London, on 24 April 1953, the son of actors Edward Woodward and Venetia Collett (who used the stage name Barrett). His siblings included Peter Woodward and Sarah Woodward, both also actors.


He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, and then trained at RADA in London.

Career[edit]

Woodward was probably best known for his audio narration in the children's television show Wide-Eye.


One of his earliest starring roles was as Royal Flying Corps pilot Sergeant Alan Farmer in the 1970s BBC drama Wings. This was followed by his starring as the by-the-book Royal Air Force pilot Squadron Leader Rex in Piece of Cake (1988).


During the 1990s Woodward made an appearance in the Granada Television soap opera Families as well as taking the role of gamekeeper Walter Gillies in Yorkshire Television's long-running 1960s drama Heartbeat.


Woodward appeared in the 2000s ITV police drama Murder City and also portrayed Leonard "Nipper" Read of Scotland Yard in the 2008 ITV adaptation of Jake Arnott's crime novel He Kills Coppers. He guest-starred with his father Edward and son Sam as a London gangster family in a special storyline for The Bill in 2008. Also, he appeared with his father Edward in an episode of American TV's The Equalizer, in which he played Robert McCall's father in a flashback scene. He is the brother of actors Peter Woodward and Sarah Woodward.


Woodward's other television credits include: The Irish R.M., Tales of the Unexpected, Pie in the Sky, Absolutely Fabulous, Prime Suspect, The Ruth Rendell MysteriesBribery and Corruption with James D'Arcy, New Tricks, Bramwell, Midsomer Murders, Murphy's Law, Heat of the Sun, Rosemary & Thyme and Agatha Christie's Poirot.


Woodward had a cameo role in William Mager's short film Stiletto, completed in June 2008.

Personal life and death[edit]

Woodward married Amanda Smith in 1997. They had two sons and a daughter. He also had a son from an earlier relationship with the actress Jan Chappell, and a daughter with Kate Barnwell.


Tim Woodward died of cancer on 9 November 2023, at the age of 70. He was survived by his wife and five children.[1]

(1975, by Joseph Losey) as Ludovico Marsili

Galileo

(1976, series 4, episode 7, BBC Television) as Det. Sgt. Hallet

The Expert

(1977, BBC Television) as Sgt. Alan Farmer

Wings

(1979, by James Ivory) as Felix Young

The Europeans

(1982, TV series, episode "Decoy") as Timothy Burton

Tales of the Unexpected

(1982, TV series) as Edward Holdsworth

Cousin Phillis

(1985, by Bruce Beresford) as Joab

King David

(1986, by Claude d'Anna) as Nerva

Salomè

(1987, by Terry Jones) as Timms

Personal Services

(1988, TV series) as Squadron Leader Rex

Piece of Cake

(1989, by Harvey Hart) as Godfrey Higgs

Passion and Paradise

(1993, by Stephen Whittaker) as Keith

Closing Numbers

(1995, by Roland Joffé) as Brewster Stonehall

The Scarlet Letter

(1996, by Terry George) as Harrington

Some Mother's Son

(1997, by Jim Goddard) as William Angelo

The House of Angelo

(1998, by Michael Radford) as Frank Rice

B. Monkey

(1999, TV movie) as Jack L. Warner

RKO 281

(2000–2001, TV series; audiobooks) - narrator

Yoho Ahoy

(2002, by Kathryn Bigelow) as Partonov

K-19: The Widowmaker

(2003, TV series) as Donald Bevan

New Tricks

(2003–present; audiobooks) as narrator

Wide-Eye

(2005, by Adrian Shergold) as the Governor of Holloway

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

(2005, TV series) as Mitrofan Nedelin

Space Race

(2006, TV series) as Enoch Arden / Charles

Agatha Christie's Poirot

(2006, TV mini-series) as John Amen

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

(2007, by Michael Keusch) as Admiral Pendleton

Flight of Fury

(2008, short) as the Executive

Stiletto

(2009, TV movie) as Morley Raisin

The Fattest Man in Britain

(2011–2013, TV series) as Dominic

Mad Dogs

(2014, TV mini-series) as Air Chief Marshal 'Bomber' Harris

Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond

(2014, TV mini-series) as Sheriff John

Houdini

(2016, by Babak Najafi) as General

London Has Fallen

(2016, by Ariel Vromen) as Roderick Armstrong

Criminal

(2017, TV series) as Magistrate König

Genius

(2017, by Michael Pearce) as Fletcher Huntingdon

Beast

(2018, by James Nunn) as Tommy Walker

The Marine 6: Close Quarters

(2019, TV series) as Lord Suckerby

Peaky Blinders

(2019, by Marjane Satrapi) as Alexandre Millerand

Radioactive

(2019, TV series) as Vincent Millbank

Casualty

at IMDb

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