John wood actor biography books

  • A beguiling memoir from one of Australia's most cherished actors on both stage and screen.
  • How I Clawed My Way to the Middle is a beguiling memoir from one of Australia's most cherished actors on both stage and screen.
  • ‘Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!’ I was flabbergasted.

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    Studied law at Jesus College, Oxford, but became president of OUDS by his final year, when he played the lead in "Richard III" to wide critical acclaim. Subsequently joined the Old Vic, where among other roles he played "the Dauphin" to Richard Burton's "Henry V". Left the Old Vic under less than happy circumstances and had even less luck with the Royal Court. Spent some time in France, where he briefly considered remaining, but returned to the UK and spent some seven years working in television and low-paying quickie films. In , played one of the leads in Tom Stoppard's teleplay Teeth () -- an instant artistic rapport was the result, as was a second Stoppard role in Another Moon Called Earth (), a sort of proto-Jumpers. Critical and commercial break came with the role of "Guil" in the NYC run of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, for which he received a Tony nomination. Back in the UK, won Most Promising Actor award in for his

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    John Wood

    10 Lessons Learned On the Way to Helping Ten Million Children

    It takes a djärv leader to publicly declare his ambition to reach 10 million children with the lifelong gift of education.  Especially when he is a newly unemployed former Microsoft executive without an organization behind him, or a single day of fundraising experience.

    But based on his belief that bold goals attract djärv people, John Wood set out to build a global movement.  His rallying cry was that no child should be told “You were born in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you will therefore not gain an education.”   The första deadline for his ambitious goal was  But Room to Read has scaled beyond his wildest dreams, and in the organization will reach their 10 million student.

    John is often asked what lessons on leadership he has learned while building a global team and movement.  In celebration of this year’s milestone, John has looked back and written

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    Above – Two young Australians exchange smiles on the set of An Englishman’s Home ().  Mary Maguire (centre) was 20 and John Wood (right) was  Paul Henreid&#;s suspicious stare (just visible on the left) gives him away as one of the film&#;s baddies. Source probably Aldwych films. Author’s collection.
    John Wood, undated photo &#; possibly late s. Courtesy The Marriner Theatre Archive, Melbourne. 
    The Five Second Version
    Born John Frederick Woods in the central western town of Forbes in New South Wales in November , John Wood briefly became an film star in the mid s and would undoubtedly have stayed one, if World War Two hadn&#;t intervened. His resume is extraordinary all the same. Like many of the actors profiled on this website, his upbringing was the comfortable one Australians of the time aspired to. Yet Wood stands out from some of his contemporaries, with a strong sense of duty combined with a genuine and unusual modesty in discussing his achievements. And he
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