Francis de Wolff
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| Born |
Francois Marie De Wolff 7 January 1913 Essex, England |
| Died |
18 April 1984 (aged 71) Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1935–1977 |
Francis de Wolff (7 January 1913 – 18 April 1984) was an English character actor. Large, bearded, and beetle-browed, he was often cast as villains in both film and television.
Life and career
Born in Essex, he made his film debut in Flame in the Heather (1935), and made many other appearances in such films as Fire Over England (1937), Treasure Island (1950), Scrooge (1951), as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ivanhoe (1952), Moby Dick (1956), Saint Joan (1957), From Russia with Love (1963), and Carry On Cleo (1964).
He is perhaps best remembered, however, as a supporting player in horror films of the 1950s and 1960s, many of them for Hammer Studios. These include Corridors of Blood (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Devil Doll (1963) and The Black Torment (1964). His last film appearance was in The Three Musketeers (1973).
His television appearances include The Avengers, Maigret, Richard the Lionheart, Danger Man, Doctor Who, The Saint, Rookery Nook, Paul Temple, Dixon of Dock Green, The Tomorrow People and Jesus of Nazareth, .
Selected filmography
- Ten Minute Alibi (1935)
- Fire Over England (1937)
- Under Capricorn (1949)
- Treasure Island (1950)
- Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)
- Scrooge (1951)
- Ivanhoe (1952)
- The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
- The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers, 1953)
- The Diamond (1954)
- Geordie (1955)
- King's Rhapsody (1955)
- Moby Dick (1956)
- The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
- Saint Joan (1957)
- Corridors of Blood (1958)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
- The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
- The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
- Siege of the Saxons (1963)
- From Russia with Love (1963) - Vavra
- The World Ten Times Over (1963)
- The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
- Devil Doll (1964)
- The Black Torment (1964)
- Carry On Cleo (1964)
- Licensed to Kill (1965)
- Triple Cross (1966)
- The Fixer (1968)
- Ghosts – Italian Style (1968)
- Sinful Davey (1969)
- The Canterbury Tales (1972)
- The Three Musketeers (1973)
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
References
External links
Francis de Wolff at Find a Grave
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