Norman Wooland

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Norman Wooland (born March 16, 1910 in Düsseldorf , Germany , † April 3, 1989 in Staplehurst , Kent , England ) was a British film and theater actor .

biography

Norman Wooland, the son of British parents, who was born in Düsseldorf, grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon , England , where he was already on the theater stage in his youth. After he was seen for the first time in a major theater role ( The Merchant of Venice ) at the age of 16 in 1926, he took part in numerous plays until 1939. In 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II , Wooland took a job with the BBC and worked as a radio commentator for the next six years of the war.

Although he was first seen in a feature film - The Five Pound Man - in 1937 , his acting career only began to flourish after the war. Despite the fact that Wooland only appeared 39 times in total, some of his films are still known today. Wooland had his breakthrough in 1948 as Horatio in William Shakespeare's Hamlet on the side of Laurence Olivier . Laurence Olivier directed and played the title role of Hamlet. In 1951 Wooland was in Quo vadis? as Nerva in front of the camera, and in Barabbas from 1961 as Rufio. He also got a supporting role in the war film The Guns of Navarone from 1961.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wooland appeared in several British sitcoms and crime series , most recently in 1985 in Cover Her Face . Norman Wooland died in 1989 at the age of 79 after a stroke .

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SURNAME Wooland, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1989
Place of death Staplehurst , Kent , England