Acting

John Westbrook

Born 1922-11-01 · Teignmouth, England, UK

Died 1989-06-16

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

Credits

Newest first

The Dress
as Matthew
1984
North Sea Hijack
as Dawnay
1980
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
as Self - Reader
1978
The Lord of the Rings
as Treebeard (voice)
1978
Blake's 7
as Muller
1978
Six Characters in Search of an Author
as Leading Man
1977
The Breakthrough
as Voice of Charon One
1975
Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery
as Bradshaw
1974
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
Playhouse
as Charon One (voice)
1974
The Edwardians
as Allenby
1972
Justice
as Jonathan Osmond Q.C.
1971
Let There Be Light
as Inspector
1970
The Main Chance
as Charles Wainwright
1969
Look at Life: Queue for Gardens
as Self - Commentator
1968
Look at Life: It's Odds on the Fish
as Self - Commentator
1968
Look at Life: Mini and Mod
as Self - Commentator
1968
Look at Life: Change at the Tower
as Self - Commentator
1967
Look at Life: The Abbey Backstage
as Self - Commentator
1966
BBC Play of the Month
as Brigadier General Barrington
1965
The Tomb of Ligeia
as Christopher Gough
1964
The Masque of the Red Death
as The Man in Red
1964
A Prize of Arms
as Capt. Stafford
1962
Foxhole in Cairo
as Roger
1960
Room at the Top
as Jack Wales
1958
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus
1958
Rupert of Hentzau
as The King / Rudolf Rassendyll
1957
The Twilight Forest
as Narrator
1957
Armchair Theatre
as Maurice Aubert
1956
There Is Another Sun
as Detective
1951