Aubrey Woods (1925-2013)
Word is spreading that this great British actor has passed on.Most of us will likely recall him from The Abominable Dr Phibes, Willy Wonka and Day Of The Daleks
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I rewatched Dr Phibes when the LSOH published their issue. I hadn't realised until then, where SiBurning's avatar was from. I'd never made the connection with DR Who before. Mr Woods was very good in...
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You want horror? Mr. Woods as Smike, the abandoned child in Nicholas Nickelby, getting beaten. "I was driven to do it! Oh.. then I'll be merciful. I'll beat ya to an inch of yer life... & spare...
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He had the distinction of acting alongside not just Vincent Price, but Tod Slaughter as well (in THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART), and was also in one of the most underrated and perhaps most obscure of...
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His conversational scenes with Pertwee in Day of the Daleks really lifted that series above the constraints of budget, evoking a world beyond the shiny bleakness the BBC set builders came up with. He...
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He more then made up for the 3 dalek army! AND he undercut a kid with a shop counter in Willy Wonka (accidentially!)
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3 Dalek Army - I hereby claim that for the name of my band! If I had a band.
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I loved Aubrey in his fantastically flamboyant role in a Blake's 7 episode set on a pleasure planet (a kind of giant space casino). Such theatricality. It pissed me off that Brian Croucher trashed...
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