Gabriel Woolf

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::summary British actor (born 1932) ::

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name	Gabriel Woolf
birth_date
birth_place	Hendon, London, Middlesex, England
occupation	Actor
notable_works	Doctor Who (1975, 2006, 2024)
spouse	Zara Green (div.)
Felicity Lott
children	3
yearsactive	1951–present
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| image = | | imagesize = 150px| | name = Gabriel Woolf | birth_date = | birth_place = Hendon, London, Middlesex, England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actor | notable_works = Doctor Who (1975, 2006, 2024) | spouse = Zara Green (div.) Felicity Lott | children = 3 | yearsactive = 1951–present Gabriel Woolf (born 2 October 1932) is a British film, radio and television actor.

Career

Among Woolf's leading parts was his performance as the Apostle John in a frequently repeated BBC adaptation of The Man Born to Be King where he also introduced each play. His film roles include Sir Percival in the 1953 film, Knights of the Round Table.

In 1975, he played Sutekh in the Doctor Who serial Pyramids of Mars.

Woolf renewed his association with Doctor Who in 1981 by reading three novelisations of Doctor Who stories for the Royal National Institute of Blind People. The books were The Three Doctors, Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters and Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster, all written by Terrance Dicks.

He joined up with the Doctor again by performing in the Big Finish Productions audio play Arrangements for War and its sequel, Thicker than Water. He appeared on the Pyramids of Mars DVD in a sketch called Oh Mummy: Sutekh's Story and a documentary piece titled Osiran Gothic.

In 2005, he returned to work with the writers of Oh Mummy, appearing in the Doctor Who DVD extra Eye On Blatchford as the demented Doctor Amadeus Gowel. In the Magic Bullet Faction Paradox audio plays Coming to Dust (2005), The Ship of a Billion Years (2006) and Body Politic (2008), all written by Lawrence Miles, Woolf reprises his role as Sutekh.

In 2008, Woolf played Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins in the third story in the Scarifyers series, For King and Country. The play was broadcast on BBC7 in 2009.

In the 2006 series of Doctor Who, Woolf returned to provide the voice of "The Beast" in the two-part story "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit". Eighteen years later, he reprised the role of Sutekh in the Series 14 two-part series finale "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" / "Empire of Death".

His many parts on BBC Radio include Shakespeare's Romeo and Inspector Charles Parker in the dramatisations of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries. He toured with the author Colin Dexter, performing readings to accompany Dexter's talks.

Woolf is also a Vice President of the Joyful Company of Singers.

Arthur Ransome

Woolf has abridged and recorded all of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. He was also elected President of the Arthur Ransome Society.

Personal life

He is married to opera singer Dame Felicity Lott and they have a daughter, Emily (b. 1984).

He also has two children from his earlier marriage to Zara E Green.

Filmography

Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Tom Brown's Schooldays	Big Brooke	Uncredited
*The Boy with a Cart *	Cuthman	TV movie
1953	Knights of the Round Table	Percival
1964	Nothing but the Best	Man	Uncredited
1971–1980	The Boy From Space	Peep-Peep's Father	Episodes 7-10
1972	The Brothers	Priest	Episode: End of the Beginning
1975	Doctor Who	Sutekh	4 episodes; Pyramids of Mars
1984	The Prisoner of Zenda	Cardinal-Archbishop of Strelsau	Miniseries
2004	Oh Mummy: Sutekh's Story	Sutekh (voice)	Short
2006	Doctor Who	The Beast (voice)	Episodes: "The Impossible Planet" / "The Satan Pit"
2012–2013	Wizards vs. Aliens	The Stones (voice)	2 episodes
2015	Transmission from Mars	Sutekh (voice)	Short
2024	Doctor Who	Sutekh (voice)	Episodes: "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" / "Empire of Death"
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Audio

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Doctor Who: Arrangements for War	Justice Rossiter
2005	Doctor Who: Thicker than Water	Justice Rossiter
2005–2009	The True History of Faction Paradox	Sutekh	5 episodes
2015	Bernice Summerfield: The Triumph of Sutekh	Sutekh	4 episodes
2018	Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures	Sutekh	2 episodes
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References

References

1. "Index entry". ONS.
2. "BBC - Cult - Doctor Who - DVD - Pyramids of Mars".
3. "Magic Bullet Productions: Home of Kaldor City and Faction Paradox Audios". kaldorcity.com.
4. "The True History of Faction Paradox: Coming to Dust". Kaldorcity.com.
5. "The True History of Faction Paradox: The Ship of a Billion Years". Kaldorcity.com.
6. "The True History of Faction Paradox: Body Politic". Kaldorcity.com.
7. "The Scarifyers: For King And Country". bigfinish.com.
8. "The Scarifyers". bbc.co.uk.
9. "Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet". IMDb.com.
10. (14 June 2024). "The One Who Waits is done waiting. MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Legend of Ruby Sunday".".
11. Anderson, Kyle. (14 June 2024). "Who is the Villain of Doctor Who Season 1". Nerdist.
12. "About Us".
13. [http://www.chichesterliterarysociety.co.uk/speakers/gabriel-woolf/ Gabriel Woolf profile] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-07-29 , chichesterliterarysociety.co.uk; accessed 9 April 2016.)

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