Portrait of John Wood

Acting

John Wood

Career

Active from 1972 to 2025, with a break from 1994 to 2006, busiest in 1987 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles
9
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score62/100
Highest rated
Poster for The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait
The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait
GoodWatch score75/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 12 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.9 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 3.9 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.4 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.7 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.6 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.4 versus catalog average 5.9Style
John Wood Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Coming of Age
    1.4, average 3.0
  • Wonder
    2.4, average 3.4
  • Fantasy
    0.9, average 1.7
  • Absurdist Humor
    1.2, average 2.0

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Moral Ambiguity 2
  • Psychological Thriller 2
  • Bleak Atmosphere 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

27
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

2 titles ยท average score 71
Full Sweat
Full Sweat (2025)

as Narrator

Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (2023)
GoodWatch score 71

as Detective Chambers

2010s

8 titles ยท average score 70
The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait
The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait (2017)
GoodWatch score 75

as Patrick Tyneman

The Doctor Blake Mysteries
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)
GoodWatch score 79

TV show ยท as Patrick Tyneman

It's a Date
It's a Date (2013)
GoodWatch score 68

TV show ยท as Rex

Backyard Ashes
Backyard Ashes (2013)
GoodWatch score 58

as Merv

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
GoodWatch score 84

TV show ยท as Mr. Jones

The Strange Calls
The Strange Calls (2012)
GoodWatch score 68

TV show ยท as DC Banks (uncredited)

Killing Time
Killing Time (2011)
GoodWatch score 62

TV show ยท as Allan Bond

Sleuth 101
Sleuth 101 (2010)

TV show ยท as Bill

2000s

3 titles ยท average score 68
The Cut
The Cut (2009)

TV show ยท as 'Wild' Bill Telford

Underbelly
Underbelly (2008)
GoodWatch score 78

TV show ยท as Murray Farquhar

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback (2007)
GoodWatch score 58

as Grant Algie

1990s

2 titles ยท average score 69
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers (1993)
GoodWatch score 69

TV show ยท as Tom Croydon

Newlyweds
Newlyweds (1993)

TV show

1980s

7 titles ยท average score 56
Rafferty's Rules
Rafferty's Rules (1987)

TV show ยท as Michael Rafferty

The Bit Part
The Bit Part (1987)
GoodWatch score 49

as John Bainbridge

Bullseye
Bullseye (1987)

as Bluey McGuirk

The Challenge
The Challenge (1986)

TV show ยท as Alan Bond

The Flying Doctors
The Flying Doctors (1986)
GoodWatch score 69

TV show ยท as Sgt. Frank O'Leary / Dennis Cleary

The Empty Beach
The Empty Beach (1985)
GoodWatch score 52

as Parker

Ginger Meggs
Ginger Meggs (1982)

as Constable Brady

1970s

5 titles
Power Without Glory
Power Without Glory (1976)

TV show ยท as Sugar Renfrey

Bluey
Bluey (1976)

TV show ยท as Terry Carter

The Office Picnic
The Office Picnic (1972)

as Clyde

Barrier Reef
Barrier Reef (1971)

TV show ยท as Chris

Dynasty
Dynasty (1970)

TV show