THE HAT SQUAD: JOHN WOODNUTT

It's possible that without my renewed interest in 'Doctor Who', the passing of John Woodnutt might have escaped my notice. And with it, several items from his resume might have gone undetected as well; roles which I might track down one day to explore further....

TV SERIES
"Knightmare" (1987) TV Series .... Mogdred (1988-1990)/Merlin (1987-1990)
"The Doombolt Chase" (1978) TV Series .... Spencer
"Children of the Stones" (1977) TV Series .... Link
"Bill Brand" (1976) TV Series .... Brent
"The Boy From Space" (1971) TV Series .... The Thin Space Man
"Rogues' Gallery" (1968/II) TV Series .... Doctor Peppercorn
"Swizzlewick" (1964) TV Series .... Rack
"The River Flows East" (1962) TV Series .... Yardley
"The Black Brigand" (1956) TV Series .... Slago

TV RECURRING ROLES
"Jeeves and Wooster" playing "Sir Watkyn Bassett"
in episode: "The Ex's Are Nearly Married Off" (episode # 4.6) 20 June 1993
in episode: "Totleigh Towers" (episode # 4.5) 13 June 1993
in episode: "Sir Watkyn Bassett's Memoirs (or, Hot Off the Press)" (episode # 3.5) 26 April 1992
in episode: "The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball (or, A Plan for Gussie)" (episode # 2.2) 21 April 1991
in episode: "The Silver Jug (or Jeeves Saves the Cow Creamer)" (episode # 2.1) 14 April 1991
in episode: "In Court After the Boat Race (or, Jeeves' Arrival)" (episode # 1.1) 22 April 1990

"The Tomorrow People" playing "Spidron"
in episode: "The Vanishing Earth: Part 4" (episode # 1.13) 30 July 1973
in episode: "The Vanishing Earth: Part 3" (episode # 1.12) 23 July 1973
in episode: "The Vanishing Earth: Part 2" (episode # 1.11) 16 July 1973
in episode: "The Vanishing Earth: Part 1" (episode # 1.10) 9 July 1973

TV MINI-SERIES
"After the War" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Harrison Digby
"Stalky & Co." (1982) (mini) TV Series .... Mr. King
"Curtain of Fear" (1964) (mini) TV Series .... Marazet
"Queen's Champion" (1958) (mini) TV Series .... Master Allan

TV MOVIES
Never Come Back (1990) (TV) .... Sir John
Porterhouse Blue (1987) (TV) .... Senior Tutor
Lifeforce (1985) .... Metallurgist
Champions (1984) .... Mr. Champion
Who Dares Wins (1982) .... Harold Staunton
Malice Aforethought (1979) (TV) .... Dr. Lydston
The Bankrupt (1972) (TV)
Connecting Rooms (1970) .... Doctor
The Gorge (1968) (TV) .... Norman
Little Master Mind (1966) (TV) .... Albert Stamp
The Portsmouth Defence (1966) (TV) .... Albert Stamp
The Master (1966) (TV) .... Jim
Man in the Middle (1964) .... Education officer
The Rebel Heiress (1958) (TV) .... Otho Killigrew
One (1956) (TV) .... Victor

TV CLASSICS
Mack the Knife (1990) .... Reverend Kimball
... aka The Threepenny Opera
The Importance of Being Earnest (1986) (TV) .... Lane
"The Pickwick Papers" (1985) TV Series .... Sergeant Snubbin
Antigone (1984) (TV) .... Chorus
Oedipus the King (1984) (TV) .... Chorus
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1983) (TV) .... Panthino
Macbeth (1983) (TV) .... Doctor
Sense and Sensibility (1981) (TV) .... Mr. Ingall
The Secret Garden (1987) (TV) ..... Archibald Craven

TV HISTORY
Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985) (TV) .... Pastor Sommers
"The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (1970) (mini) TV Series .... Henry VII
Invasion (1980) (TV) .... Kosygin

TV GUEST APPEARANCES
"Wycliffe" playing "Dr. Angwin" in episode: "Wild Oats" (episode # 2.7) 30 July 1995
"No Place Like Home" playing "Judge" in episode: "The Summons" (episode # 3.4) 29 January 1986
"Terry and June" playing "Dr. Fletcher" in episode: "Death of a Salesman" (episode # 8.5) 5 October 1985
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" playing "Mr. Merryweather" in episode: "The Red-Headed League" (episode # 2.5) 22 September 1985
"The Bill" playing "Bank Manager" in episode: "Burning the Books" (episode # 1.9) 8 January 1985
"Dramarama" playing "Melchisedek" in episode: "Mr. Stabs" (episode # 2.7) 2 July 1984
"Doctor Who" playing "Broton" (archive footage) in episode: "Logopolis" (episode # 18.7) 28 February 1981
"Doctor Who" playing "Consul Seron" in episode: "The Keeper of Traken" (episode # 18.6) 31 January 1981
"Lady Killers" playing "Mr. Justice McKinnon" in episode: "Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday" (episode # 1.5) 17 August 1980
"Shoestring" playing "Dr. Morris" in episode: "The Link-Up" (episode # 1.7) 11 November 1979
"The Sweeney" playing "Dr. Clare" in episode: "Stay Lucky, Eh?" (episode # 2.9) 27 October 1975
"Doctor Who" playing "Duke of Forgill/Broton" in episode: "Terror of the Zygons" (episode # 13.1) 30 August 1975
"Public Eye" playing "Hooper" in episode: "What's to Become of Us?" (episode # 7.6) 10 February 1975
"Z Cars" playing "Chief Supt. Birch" in episode: "Two Wise Monkeys" (episode # 9.17) 4 March 1974
"Crown Court" in episode: "To Suffer a Witch" (episode # 1.51) 17 October 1973
"Doctor Who" playing "Draconian Emperor" in episode: "Frontier in Space" (episode # 10.3) 24 February 1973
"Crown Court" in episode: "Whatever Happened to George Robins" (episode # 1.12) 3 January 1973
"Crown Court" in episode: "Conspiracy" (episode # 1.9) 13 December 1972
"Look and Read" playing "Thin Space-man" in episode: "Boy From Space, The: Part 1 - The Meteorite" (episode # 3.1) 21 September 1971
"The Adventures of Don Quick" playing "Goolmarg" in episode: "The Benefits of Earth" (episode # 1.1) 30 October 1970
"Special Branch" playing "Major Carter" in episode: "Love From Doris" (episode # 2.9) 7 October 1970
"Z Cars" playing "Harris" in episode: "One Bad Apple: Part 2" (episode # 6.326) 19 May 1970
"Codename" playing "Colonel Field" in episode: "One for the Lobster Pot" (episode # 1.4) 28 April 1970
"Doctor Who" playing "Hibbert" in episode: "Spearhead From Space" (episode # 7.1) 3 January 1970
"The First Lady" playing "Brian Cobden" in episode: "To Hell with Purity" (episode # 2.7) 8 May 1969
"Judge Dee" playing "Hoo Penn" in episode: "The Day of the Scavengers" (episode # 1.4) 29 April 1969
"Callan" playing "Ian Bishop" in episode: "Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged" (episode # 2.8) 26 February 1969
"Out of the Unknown" playing "Kelland" in episode: "The Little Black Bag" (episode # 3.8) 25 February 1969
"Thirty-Minute Theatre" playing "Arthur Tyrrell" in episode: "Two and Two Make Twenty Two" (episode # 1.61) 22 March 1967
"The Corridor People" playing "Colonel Lemming" in episode: "Victim as Red" (episode # 1.3) 9 September 1966
"Adam Adamant Lives!" playing "Sheik" in episode: "Allah Is Not Always with You" (episode # 1.5) 21 July 1966
"The Troubleshooters" playing "Hubbard" in episode: "Wingless Wonder" (episode # 2.8) 18 June 1966
"The Avengers" playing "Captain Noble" in episode: "Quick-Quick Slow Death" (episode # 4.19) 5 February 1966
"Softly Softly" playing "Franklyn" in episode: "Talk to Me" (episode # 1.5) 2 February 1966
"Dixon of Dock Green" playing "Insp. Lawson" in episode: "The Man Who Was Going to Die" (episode # 12.9) 27 November 1965
"Z Cars" playing "Cohen" in episode: "Market Square" (episode # 4.39) 2 June 1965
"Sherlock Holmes" playing "Pawnbroker" in episode: "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (episode # 1.12) 8 May 1965
"No Hiding Place" playing "Joe Briggs" in episode: "Smokey" (episode # 7.14) 26 April 1965
"Sherlock Holmes" playing "Station Master" in episode: "The Bruce-Partington Plans" (episode # 1.9) 17 April 1965
"The Saint" playing "Head Porter" in episode: "Luella" (episode # 2.19) 23 January 1964
"Z Cars" playing "Holdsworth" in episode: "Daylight Robbery" (episode # 3.11) 13 November 1963
"Suspense" playing "David Croft" in episode: "The Patch Card" (episode # 2.28) 8 July 1963
"Z Cars" playing "Peever" in episode: "Business Trip" (episode # 2.13) 12 December 1962
"Studio Four" playing "Parson Platt" in episode: "Comrade Jacob" (episode # 2.6) 17 September 1962
"Studio Four" playing "Labour Front Leader Baumer" in episode: "The Cross and the Arrow" (episode # 1.1) 22 January 1962

OF TOOBWORLD NOTE
Out Of The Unknown: The Little Black Bag (1969) (TV) .... Kelland
This was remade as a segment of 'Night Gallery' featuring Burgess Meredith, Chill Wills, and George Furth.

"The Boy From Space" (1971) TV Series .... The Thin Space Man
"Look and Read" playing "Thin Space-man" in episode: "Boy From Space, The: Part 1 - The Meteorite" (episode # 3.1) 21 September 1971
Not being familiar with this series, I don't know if 'The Boy From Space' was launched from 'Look And Read', or if the entire series aired under that umbrella title.

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" playing "Mr. Merryweather" in episode: "The Red-Headed League" (episode # 2.5) 22 September 1985
"Sherlock Holmes" playing "Pawnbroker" in episode: "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (episode # 1.12) 8 May 1965
"Sherlock Holmes" playing "Station Master" in episode: "The Bruce-Partington Plans" (episode # 1.9) 17 April 1965
Mr. Woodnutt played characters in stories about the Sherlock Holmes of two dimensions.

The 1985 version starred Jeremy Brett and is considered by this Caretaker as being the Sherlock Holmes of Earth Prime-Time. Douglas Wilmer played the role twenty years earlier.

So few episodes separate Mr. Woodnutt's appearances in the 1965 version that I'm almost tempted to speculate the Station Master moonlighted as a pawnbroker. But costuming and make-up could go a long way toward making them distinct characters.

BCnU....
Tele-Toby