Peter Woodthorpe

Peter Woodthorpe (born 25th September 1931 in York, died 12th August 2004 in Oxfordshire) appeared in Coronation Street in January and February 1989 as Alec Gilroy's accountant Bernie Greenwood.

He began his professional acting career when he was studying Biochemistry at Magdalene College, Cambridge, but found that he was appearing in a hit with the first production of Waiting for Godot. On television he went on to appear in BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, ITV Television Playhouse, Z Cars, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, No Hiding Place, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, George and the Dragon, Manhunt, The Lotus Eaters, Fall of Eagles, The Professionals, Crown Court, Only Fools and Horses....  (as Reg Trotter, Del and Rodney's father), Chance in a Million, Inspector Morse and Bonjour la Classe.

Film roles include parts in The Evil of Frankenstein, The Skull, The Blue Max, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Mirror Crack'd, The Madness of King George and Jane Eyre but he is best known for providing the voice of Gollum in the 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, a part he reprised in the epic 1981 BBC radio dramatisation of the same work. In that same medium, he was heard in many dramas and readings including ''Nekrassov, Blind Tom, Playing with Fire, The House on the Water, A Man Talking to Seagulls, Chips with Everything, Oliver Twist, Prometheus Bound, In the Jungle of Cities, Saturday-Night Theatre, The Monday Play, Afternoon Theatre, The Vortex, The Noble Savage, Thirty-Minute Theatre, From a Newgate Calendar, Lord Peter Wimsey, What Ho! Jeeves and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui''.

Other stage roles include The Caretaker and Darling of the Day.

External pages

 * Internet Movie Database entry for Peter Woodthorpe
 * Wikipedia page for Peter Woodthorpe