Peter Woods(1930-1995)

Actor

Peter Woods was born on 7 November 1930 in Romford, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Out of Order (1987), Pulaski: The TV Detective (1987) and Life at Stake (1978). He was married to Kathleen Marian Smith and Emma Jean Steer. He died on 22 March 1995 in Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK.

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Known for

Out of Order

3.9

Newsreader

1987

Pulaski: The TV Detective

8.2

TV Series

TV Presenter

Life at Stake

TV Series

Newsreader

A Taste for Death

7.6

TV Mini Series

TV Newsreader

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Actor

Who's the Greatest Cricketer?
Video
- Narrator (voice)
- 1995
The New Statesman
7.8
TV Series
- Peter Woods
- 1989
A Taste for Death
7.6
TV Mini Series
- TV Newsreader
- 1988
Out of Order
3.9
- Newsreader
- 1987
Pulaski: The TV Detective
8.2
TV Series
- TV Presenter
- 1987
The Kenny Everett Television Show
7.2
TV Series
- Various
- 1985
Bananarama: Rough Justice
4.0
Music Video
- BBC Newscaster
- 1984
The Comic Strip Presents
7.8
TV Series
- Interviewer
- 1984
Singles
TV Movie
- Umpire's Voice (voice)
- 1983
Life at Stake
TV Series
- Newsreader
- 1978
Quiller
6.7
TV Series
- Newsreader
- 1975
Monty Python's Flying Circus
8.8
TV Series
- BBC Presenter (uncredited)
- 1974

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Born
- November 7, 1930
- Romford, Essex, England, UK
Died
- March 22, 1995
- Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK
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Other works
Well-known BBC TV newsreader in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Trivia
On 14 May 1976, an edition of the BBC 1 Six O'Clock News that he was reading was faded out early, euphemistically because of "technical problems", after he began slurring his words. He was reading a story about the monthly Trade Figures and stumbled over the numbers before ad-libbing "... and the trade figures are an awful lot". Many viewers phoned in to complain that Woods was drunk, but the official explanation was that it was a side-effect of a hay-fever drug that he had taken.