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Corbet Stafford Woodall (6 April 1929 – 19 May 1982), was an
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newsreader for the
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. Born in
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, he was educated as an Oppidan scholar at
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where he also excelled at sports. He worked in the 1950s for the
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, before returning to Britain where he initially worked as a stage manager on
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s. He then became an announcer on the
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, moving to work on television in 1963. He became part of the team of regular BBC newsreaders, the others being
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and Richard Baker.David Morris Jones, "The night they forgot to read the news", ''Prospero'', June 2014, pp.8-9
/ref> After leaving national BBC Television in 1967, he presented '' Look East'', and, as a freelance broadcaster, contributed to the ''
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'' programme. He also chaired editions of ''
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'' and ''
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''. Corbet Woodall appeared in many television series, and also in some films, in which he invariably acted as either a television newsreader, or as an announcer. On television, Corbet Woodall appeared in several episodes of ''
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'', as well as ''
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'', '' A Fine Romance'' and ''
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'', among others. Increasingly disabled by
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from the late 1960s, Woodall's frequent appearances on ''The Goodies'' (1970-1981) would have been more frequent, but according to author Robert Ross in his book ''The Goodies Rule OK'' his contract was often marked "Artist ill". In an interview with Ross,
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praised Woodall's professionalism in wake of his debilitating illness. "He wasn't a well man at all, but (on camera) he rose from the dead and delivered every time." Towards the end of his life, Woodall became a committed supporter of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council (now
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) and by appearing in a Christmas television appeal for the charity in 1981, raised the sum of £72,000; at that time a record for an appeal of that kind. Woodall recounted his struggle with the illness in his autobiography ''Disjointed Life'', which he hoped would help medical professionals to understand the mental and emotional aspects of the condition.


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* 1929 births 1982 deaths Mass media people from Hampshire English male film actors English male television actors English television journalists 20th-century English male actors People educated at Eton College {{UK-screen-actor-stub