Wolfe Morris
Biography
Wolfe Morris was an English actor who built a five-decade career on character roles in theater, television and film. Born in Portsmouth, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1943. He made his screen debut in Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) and went on to appear in almost 90 films and television shows, as well as many stage plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company. On television his best-known part was Thomas Cromwell in The Six Wives of Henry VIII, for which he studied portraits of the figures at English castles. He played Gollum in a 1968 BBC radio version of The Hobbit, and his films included the horror anthology The House That Dripped Blood (1971), The Mackintosh Man (1973), The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) and Cuba (1979). He died in 1996.
71years old at death
- Born Portsmouth
- Died London
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Woolf Steinberg
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 22 years1957 to 1979
Every film, newest first
- 1979CubaIMDb rating 5.6
- 1975The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter BrotherIMDb rating 6.0
- 1973The MacKintosh ManIMDb rating 6.3
- 1971The House That Dripped BloodIMDb rating 6.5
- 1957Ill Met by MoonlightIMDb rating 6.5
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For his best-known television role as Thomas Cromwell in The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Morris visited several English castles to study portraits of the historical figures.
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