Aubrey Woods
Biography
Aubrey Woods was an English actor who made his first film appearance as a teenager, playing Smike in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947), and was best remembered for Bill, the candy shop owner who sang The Candy Man in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). Born in Edmonton, Middlesex, and raised in Palmers Green, he attended the Latymer School. On stage he played Fagin in Lionel Bart's Oliver! in the 1960s, and in the early 1970s he collaborated on the musical Trelawny with Julian Slade. His television credits included Pickwick for the BBC, Z-Cars, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and he took the roles of Jacob and Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium in 1991. For radio he dramatized and narrated E. F. Benson's Secret Lives and appeared in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
85years old at death
- Born London
- Died Barrow-in-Furness
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
- Also credited as Aubrey Harold Woods
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 12 years1970 to 1982
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First role
At 17, Woods took his first film part, playing Smike in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, which came out in 1947.
Beyond film
Woods sang "The Candy Man" in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and the song later became a hit for Sammy Davis Jr.
Behind the camera
Woods turned E. F. Benson's 1932 comic novel Secret Lives into a three part drama for BBC radio, and he was the narrator as well.
Beyond film
In 1991, Woods played Jacob and Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. The soundtrack of that production reached the top of the UK albums chart in August 1991.
Beyond film
Woods had radio credits that included the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, where he appeared in the episode "Fit the Sixth".
Aubrey Woods movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Robert Fuest directed two of these films. Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Hugh Griffith's page
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Julie Dawn Cole's page
Robert FuestDirector, 2 films, 1970 to 1971
All films by Robert Fuest
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.