- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWoolf Steinberg
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- British character actor of Ukrainian-Jewish ancestry. Prolific on stage and screen, he was especially adept at impersonating people from diverse ethnicities, including Indians, Arabs, Japanese, Mexicans and Boers. He was a graduate of RADA and winner of the Forbes-Robertson and Kendal prizes. Morris frequently appeared with the Royal Exchange, the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His many successes on stage included Professor Godbole in "A Passage to India" (1960) and Pozzo in "Waiting for Godot" (1980.) On screen, he specialised -- true to form -- in exotic oriental characters. His gallery of personae included Padmasambhava in "The Abominable Snowman" chapter of Doctor Who (1963), Detective Bose in Nine Hours to Rama (1963), Beirut police chief Takla in Department S (1969) ("A Fish Out of Water"), assorted shady Eastern Europeans in The Avengers (1961), The Rat Catchers (1966), and so on. Morris is best remembered as the insidious Thomas Cromwell in the BBC's The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), a role he was said to have researched by visiting Tudor castles and studying contemporary portraits.- IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis
- RelativesAubrey Morris(Sibling)
- Short, stocky and distinguished character actor
- Along with Peter Cushing and Arnold Marlé, he was one of only three actors to reprise their roles from The Creature (1955) in the film remake The Abominable Snowman (1957).
- He worked with his younger brother Aubrey Morris in Stoppo Driver (1975) and The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975).
- He appeared in both The Abominable Snowman (1957) and The Abominable Snowmen: Episode Two (1967).
- He and his younger brother Aubrey Morris both appeared in Hammer films: Wolfe in The Abominable Snowman (1957), The Camp on Blood Island (1958), Further Up the Creek (1958), I Only Arsked! (1958) and Yesterday's Enemy (1959) and Aubrey in Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971).
- Father of Shona Morris.
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