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The Bed Sitting Room | Richard Lester | 1969

Michael Hordern, Richard Warwick, Rita Tushingham, Henry Woolf, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Gordon Rollings, and Ralph Richardson in the post-nuclear night-time

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Saskatoon's theatre community has lost one its most well-known and influential artists.

Henry Woolf made himself rather iconic in British theatre, film and TV. Doctor Who fans will remember him as the Collector in the classic Tom Baker story The Sun Makers. He appeared in countless films, hosted TV shows, and was part of Harold Pinter’s inner circle.

But he lived a second life. In the 1980s he relocated to Saskatoon, Canada, where he became a drama instructor with the University of Saskatchewan. He directed many plays and was the guiding light behind the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan festival.

Although I can’t say I knew him, I did get to chat with him a few times because, as part of my Bachelor of Arts degree, I took a Drama class. Sadly, it wasn’t with him, but he was always about. I think I still have a collection of Pinter plays he signed for me.

Rest in peace, Henry.

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Monologue (BBC, 1973)

"I feel for you. Even if you feel nothing... for me. I feel for you, old chap. I keep busy in the mind. That's why I'm still sparking, get it? I've got a hundred percent more energy in me now than when I was twenty-two: when I was twenty-two I slept twenty-four hours a day, and twenty-two hours a day at twenty-four, work it out for yourself. But now I'm sparking. At my peak, up here! Two-thousand revolutions a second, every living hour of the day and night. I'm a front-runner!"

#harold pinter #monologue #BBC #classic tv #1973 #Henry woolf #christopher morahan #Single play #At just twenty minutes long this is probably the shortest original piece Pinter wrote for television #It is also one of the barest and most stripped down examples of his work: a man alone in a sitting room delivers a one sided #Conversation to an empty chair. It's immediately gripping however. Opening just outside the room the camera glides in #Takes in the empty chair and settles on Woolf who then proceeds to address his monologue to some invisible person #Imagined or perhaps remembered. The chair itself becomes almost a character (or if not the chair then the absence of a second person)#As the camera occasionally returns to it for beats or moments to allow the words to settle. Morahan also sometimes fades between an image #Of woolf and then a mirrored image of himself briefly overlayed as if to suggest the figure he imagines he is speaking to is some other #Form of himself. A past self or imagined self: an ideal or dream self. Or perhaps the memories that he talks of did happen #With some friend long lost or dead. As with all of the playwrights work there are no easy answers.#Woolf is brilliant as the unnamed man. He and Pinter were friends of old and had known one another since the 40s #This monologue was something he would return to as well. He performed it onstage decades later to critical acclaim #There are similarities with the basement in the idea of a male friendship being upended by a female love interest #And interesting comparisons to be made with the later Landscape (which features two characters delivering #Monologues like the man here; apparently holding one sided conversations only in the same room together in the later play)#This benefits too from Wolf's being like Pinter a Jewish Londoner: his voice is in many ways similar to the writer's so that it is no #Great leap to hear the words in Pinter's own voice. Indeed at times he put me in mind of Pinter's version of McCann from The Birthday Party #Edt: I of course meant Pinter's performance as Goldberg in TBP not McCann. Smh.

Rutland Weekend Television - BBC Two - May 12, 1975 - December 24, 1976

Sketch Comedy (14 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Eric Idle

Neil Innes

David Battley

Henry Woolf

Gwen Taylor

Terence Bayler

#Rutland Weekend Television #TV #BBC Two #1970's #Sketch Comedy #Eric Idle #Neil Innes #David Battley #Henry Woolf #Gwen Taylor #Terence Bayler

Savage Messiah | Ken Russell | 1972

Scott Antony, Dorothy Tutin, Henry Woolf, Howard Goorney, et al.

#Scott Antony #Dorothy Tutin #Henry Woolf #Howard Goorney #Ken Russell #Savage Messiah #1972

The resplendent unmitigated joy of Mr. Henry Woolf

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Henry Woolf (1930- 2021)

The actor Henry Woolf, who played the Collector in the Fourth Doctor story The Sun Makers in 1977, has died at the age of 91. Woolf made for a memorable villain as the Collector, whose regime on Pluto pays workers a pittance and taxes them on everything under the sun. The story is perhaps best remembered for writer Robert Holmes’s satirical take on the UK’s Inland Revenue, but, whilst references…

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#Eric Idle #Fourth Doctor #Harold Pinter #Henry Woolf #Robert Holmes #Rutland Weekend Television #Steptoe and Son #The Collector #The Sun Makers #Words and Pictures

Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 35: Distiny Calling!

In this week’s episode we discuss Disney+ Day, Elves, Fraggle Rock: Back To The Rock, Halo: The Series, Silent Night, Portal Runner, The Many Saints of Newark, What We Do in the Shadows, The Mandalorian, Henry Woolf, Peacock, Superman & Lois, Ryan Reynolds and a whole lot more… https://cultfaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Episode-35.mp3

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#Disney+ Day #Elves #Fraggle Rock: Back To The Rock #Halo: The Series #Henry Woolf #Peacock #Portal Runner #Ryan Reynolds #Silent Night #Superman & Lois #The Mandalorian #The Many Saints of Newark #What We Do In The Shadows

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