Biography
Willoughby Wittenham Rees Goddard (4 July 1926 β 11 April 2008) was an English actor whose trademark rotund figure was well known on television and in films for more than 40 years. Goddard was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire. He played Mr. Bumble in two versions of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist β a 1962 television adaptation, and the original Broadway production of the musical Oliver!. He originated the role of Cardinal Wolsey in the West End production of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. He appeared in the television series The Adventures of William Tell (which lasted 39 episodes) in 1958 and 1959 as the villain Landburgher Gessler and as Sir Geoffrey in The Man in Room 17, which ran two series of 13 hour-long black-and-white episodes in 1965 and 1966. He was cast as Reeder's boss, Sir Jason Toovey, (head of the Department of Public Prosecutions) in The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder, a TV series of 16 hour-long episodes with first season 1969 and second season 1971 based on short stories by Edgar Wallace.Goddard retired from the industry in 1987 and died in 2008, aged 81.Goddard is buried in Teddington Cemetery.
Filmography
all 45
Movies 26
TV Shows 19
The Best of Not The Nine O'Clock News (2006)
Porterhouse Blue (1987)
God's Outlaw (1986)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Quincy's Quest (1979)
Not The Nine O'Clock News (1979)
The Famous Five (1978)
Joseph Andrews (1977)
Stones (1976)
4 Idle Hands (1976)
Space: 1999 (1975)
The Sweeney (1975)
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973)
Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
The Onedin Line (1971)
Platonov (1971)
The Juggler of Notre Dame (1970)
The Main Chance (1969)
Laughter in the Dark (1969)
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
The Wrong Box (1966)
Out of the Unknown (1965)
The Man In Room 17 (1965)
And Did Those Feet ? (1965)
The Wednesday Play (1964)
The Saint (1962)
Oliver Twist (1962)
Fate Takes a Hand (1961)
Double Bunk (1961)
The Avengers (1961)
The Millionairess (1960)
Inn for Trouble (1960)
International Detective (1959)
In the Wake of a Stranger (1959)
The Adventures of William Tell (1958)
Heart of a Child (1958)
Stranger in Town (1957)
The Green Man (1956)
A Touch of the Sun (1956)
The Buccaneers (1956)
The Million Pound Note (1954)
Bait (1950)
The Golden Rabbit
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GenderMale
Birthday1926-07-04
Deathday2008-04-11 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceBicester, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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