Wolfe Morris

Wolfe Morris (born Woolf Steinberg,[2] 5 January 1925 – 21 July 1996) was an English actor,[3][4] who played character roles on stage, television and in feature films from the 1950s until the 1990s.

[7] Morris trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1943.

His best-known role on television was as Thomas Cromwell in The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

[3] In preparation for it, he visited a number of English castles to study the characters' portraits.

[9] In 1968, he played Gollum in the BBC Radio dramatisation of The Hobbit, and later starred as the mad waxworks owner in the Amicus horror anthology film The House That Dripped Blood (1970).