John Westbrook

Birthday: 1922-11-01
Deathday: 1989-06-16
Birthplace: Teignmouth, England, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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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.

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Credits

Year Title Character
1984-01-03 The Dress Matthew
1980-02-18 North Sea Hijack Dawnay
1978-12-19 B.Traven: A Mystery Solved Reader
1978-11-15 The Lord of the Rings Treebeard (voice)
1975-01-08 The Breakthrough Voice of Charon One
1974-12-27 Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery Bradshaw
1970-01-23 Let There Be Light Inspector
1964-11-29 The Tomb of Ligeia Christopher Gough
1964-06-24 The Masque of the Red Death The Man in Red
1962-12-11 A Prize of Arms Capt. Stafford
1960-03-09 Foxhole in Cairo Roger
1958-12-29 Room at the Top Jack Wales
1951-06-12 There Is Another Sun Detective