Peter Woodthorpe (25 September 1931 – 13 August 2004)[1][2] was an English actor who supplied the voice of Gollum in the 1978 Bakshi version of The Lord of the Rings and the BBC's 1981 radio serial.

[3] He also provided the voice of Pigsy in the cult series Monkey and played Max, the pathologist, in early episodes of Inspector Morse.

[4] He had then just finished his second year reading Biochemistry[5] at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and expected to return after a run of a few weeks.

[7] He was later a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in productions of Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice and The Lower Depths.

[9] After 1994, he recorded the voices of Toad, Great White Stag and Whistler in a BBC Young Collection audiotape version of the Animals of Farthing Wood.