John Westbrook
Acting
Born: 1922-11-01 in Teignmouth, England, UK
Biography
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
Known For
BBC Play of the Month
Brigadier General Barrington
Blake's 7
Muller
Playhouse
Charon One (voice)
The Main Chance
Charles Wainwright
Justice
Jonathan Osmond Q.C.
The Lord of the Rings
Treebeard (voice)
The Masque of the Red Death
The Man in Red
The Edwardians
Allenby
North Sea Hijack
Dawnay
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Room at the Top
Jack Wales
Armchair Theatre
Maurice Aubert
The Tomb of Ligeia
Christopher Gough
Foxhole in Cairo
Roger
B.Traven: A Mystery Solved
Self - Reader
There Is Another Sun
Detective
A Prize of Arms
Capt. Stafford
The Dress
Matthew
The Breakthrough
Voice of Charon One
Let There Be Light
Inspector
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus
Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery
Bradshaw
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Leading Man
Look at Life: Change at the Tower
Self - Commentator