The theater veteran landed his signature role in 'Willy Wonka' and was asked to reprise his sweetshop owner’s song, 'The Candyman,' by fans through his final days.
Woods delivers his big musical number in 1971’s “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.” Adoring fans requested that he sing “The Candyman” through his final days.
Aubrey Woods, the British actor who made the sun shine for generations of fans of the film, “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” died last week at the age of 85.
The classically trained theater veteran died in a Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, hospital of an undisclosed illness, his wife, Gaynor, told the BBC.
The London-born Woods broke into the business as a teen in 1947’s “The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby” seven years before winning a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Though he trod the boards to some acclaim in London’s West End — the British equivalent of Broadway — the lanky Woods landed his signature role in “Willy Wonka” and was asked to reprise his sweetshop owner’s song, “The Candyman,” by fans through his final days, Britain’s The Guardian reported.
“Dr. Who” fans, however, may know him best from his turn as The Controller in 1972 Doctor Who episode “Day of the Daleks.”
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