Fred Wood

Fred Wood

Born: October 26, 1922
Died: January 1, 2003
in Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
Fred Wood (born 26 October 1922, Rotherhithe, London), died January 2003, was an English actor.

Wood was best known for roles in Star Wars (1977), Elephant Man (1980) and From Russia with Love (1963). Wood has appeared in a large number of American films, due to filming taking place partly or entirely in Britain. As a British-based actor and supporting artist, he worked extensively in British films since the late 1940s until 2001 and television since the 1950s.

He appeared in a wide range of television shows including Dangerman, Gideon's Way, The Professionals, The Baron and Gone to Seed (1992).

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The Fifth Element
Title: The Fifth Element
Character: Emissary (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1997
Type: Movie
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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Willow
Title: Willow
Character: Druid
Released: May 20, 1988
Type: Movie
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
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Young Sherlock Holmes
Title: Young Sherlock Holmes
Character: Patron (Lower Nile Tavern) (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Character: Prol (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1984
Type: Movie
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Lassiter
Title: Lassiter
Released: February 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard and the FBI force a thief and his girlfriend to steal Nazi diamonds from a German countess.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Man in the Crowd (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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The Elephant Man
Title: The Elephant Man
Character: Injured Man (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Prisoner
Released: July 17, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
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Star Wars
Title: Star Wars
Character: Cantina Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
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Brief Encounter
Title: Brief Encounter
Character: (Uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
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The Wicker Man
Title: The Wicker Man
Character: Parishioner (Singing Hymn In Church) (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
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Carry On Girls
Title: Carry On Girls
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
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The Offence
Title: The Offence
Character: Billy
Released: January 11, 1973
Type: Movie
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
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The Pied Piper
Title: The Pied Piper
Character: Burger (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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Demons of the Mind
Title: Demons of the Mind
Character: Villager Carrying Torch (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
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The Ruling Class
Title: The Ruling Class
Character: Corpse (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: Movie
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Title: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Character: Train passenger
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
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Anne of the Thousand Days
Title: Anne of the Thousand Days
Character: Court Scribe (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1969
Type: Movie
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
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Where Eagles Dare
Title: Where Eagles Dare
Character: German Soldier in Bier Keller (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1968
Type: Movie
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
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Robbery
Title: Robbery
Character: Hammer's Supporter (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
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Cop-Out
Title: Cop-Out
Character: Protester Against Execution (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1967
Type: Movie
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
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Blow-Up
Title: Blow-Up
Character: Homeless Man (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1966
Type: Movie
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
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The Plague of the Zombies
Title: The Plague of the Zombies
Character: Lone Villager on steps
Released: January 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.
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Becket
Title: Becket
Character: Congregation Member (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1964
Type: Movie
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.
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The Man Who Finally Died
Title: The Man Who Finally Died
Character: Exhumation Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
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From Russia with Love
Title: From Russia with Love
Character: Gypsy (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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I Thank a Fool
Title: I Thank a Fool
Character: Marquee Observor (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
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The Day of the Triffids
Title: The Day of the Triffids
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1962
Type: Movie
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
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Captain Clegg
Title: Captain Clegg
Character: Parishioner (Uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
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H.M.S. Defiant
Title: H.M.S. Defiant
Character: French Sailor (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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A Kind of Loving
Title: A Kind of Loving
Character: Pub Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1962
Type: Movie
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
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The Mouse That Roared
Title: The Mouse That Roared
Character: Bird Seller (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1959
Type: Movie
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Drummer (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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Fame Is the Spur
Title: Fame Is the Spur
Character: Unimpressed Welsh Miner (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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The Master of Bankdam
Title: The Master of Bankdam
Character: Striker in Crowd (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.