John Westbrook
Born: 1922-11-01 in Teignmouth, England, UK
Died: 1989-06-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Westbrook (1 November 1922 - 16 June 1989) was an English actor. Born in Teignmouth, Devon, John Westbrook worked mainly in theatre and in radio. He also made occasional film and television appearances. His most famous role was as Christopher Gough in Roger Corman's The Tomb of Ligeia. Noted for his deep, mellifluous voice, he also recorded radio plays and audio books, and provided the role of Treebeard in the 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Westbrook also recorded the spoken vocal parts for the orchestral pieces An Oxford Elegy by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Morning Heroes by Arthur Bliss. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Westbrook (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1984
- The Dress as Matthew
1980
- North Sea Hijack as Dawnay
1978
- Blake's 7 as Muller
- The Lord of the Rings as Treebeard (voice)
- B.Traven: A Mystery Solved as Reader
1977
- Six Characters in Search of an Author as Leading Man
1975
- The Breakthrough as Voice of Charon One
1974
- Playhouse as Charon One (voice)
- Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery as Bradshaw
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1972
- The Edwardians as Allenby
1971
- Justice as Jonathan Osmond Q.C.
1970
- Let There Be Light as Inspector
1969
- The Main Chance as Charles Wainwright
1968
- Look at Life: Queue for Gardens as Self - Commentator
- Look at Life: Mini and Mod as Self - Commentator
- Look at Life: It's Odds on the Fish as Self - Commentator
1967
- Look at Life: Change at the Tower as Self - Commentator
1966
- Look at Life: The Abbey Backstage as Self - Commentator
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Brigadier General Barrington
1964
- The Tomb of Ligeia as Christopher Gough
- The Masque of the Red Death as The Man in Red
1962
- A Prize of Arms as Capt. Stafford
1960
- Foxhole in Cairo as Roger
1958
- Room at the Top as Jack Wales
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus
1957
- Rupert of Hentzau as The King / Rudolf Rassendyll
- The Twilight Forest as Narrator
1951
- There Is Another Sun as Detective