Biografia

16 de fevereiro de 1907 · Exeter, Devon, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

31 de março de 1973 · Barnet, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (kidney failure)

George Arthur Woodbridge

1,75 m

Heavy-set, ruddy-complexioned Devon-born character actor, who specialised in bucolic types, jovial policemen or innkeepers. As the latter, made a niche in cameos for Hammer studios, typically regaling fellow pubgoers with stories of murder and mayhem.

He made nine films with Michael Ripper: Sublime Inspiração (1953), O Passado de Meu Marido (1955), Ricardo III (1955), A Vingança de Frankenstein (1958), A Múmia (1959), A Noite do Lobisomem (1961), Out of the Fog (1962), O Cavaleiro Audaz (1963) and A Serpente (1966).

He appeared in five films directed by Terence Fisher: O Vampiro da Noite (1958), A Vingança de Frankenstein (1958), A Múmia (1959), A Noite do Lobisomem (1961) and Drácula, o Príncipe das Trevas (1966).

He was born in Exeter, where his father was the Registrar of the University College of the South West (which formed what latterly became the University of Exeter in 1955). After studying physics and mathematics at his father's college he turned to acting as a profession at the Cambridge Festival in "Caesar and Cleopatra".

One son, Christopher Knott Woodbridge (1933-2014).