Francis de Wolff
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| Born | Francois Marie De Wolff 7 January 1913 Essex, England |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. 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.
Early life
Born in Essex, he made his film debut in Flame in the Heather in 1935, and went on to make 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), Carry On Cleo (1964) and The Three Musketeers (1973).
Career
He is perhaps best remembered 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 television appearances include The Avengers, Danger Man, Dixon of Dock Green, Lord Peter Wimsey, Doctor Who, Rookery Nook, Jesus of Nazareth, Maigret, Paul Temple, Richard the Lionheart, The Saint, and The Tomorrow People.
Selected filmography
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- 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 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)
- 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)
