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Heavy-set, ruddy-complexioned Devon-born character actor, who specialised in bucolic types, jovial policemen or innkeepers. As the latter, made a niche in cameos for Hammer studios, typically regaling fellow pubgoers with stories of murder and mayhem.

He made nine films with Michael Ripper: The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953), The Constant Husband (1955), Richard III (1955), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Mummy (1959), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), Out of the Fog (1962), The Scarlet Blade (1963) and The Reptile (1966).

He appeared in five films directed by Terence Fisher: Dracula (1958), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Mummy (1959), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966).

He was born in Exeter, where his father was the Registrar of the University College of the South West (which formed what latterly became the University of Exeter in 1955). After studying physics and mathematics at his father's college he turned to acting as a profession at the Cambridge Festival in "Caesar and Cleopatra".

One son, Christopher Knott Woodbridge (1933-2014).