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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1943
Died
January 1, 2017
Place of Birth
Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK
William Hoyland
0.2 Popularity
Biography
William Hoyland was born in 1943 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. He was an actor, known for Hellboy (2004), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Gandhi (1982). He was married to Carole De Jong. He died in July 2017 in the UK
Known For
7.6
Headmaster
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
7.5
Dr. Godfrey
Call the Midwife
2012
6.4
John Bauman
A Mighty Heart
2007
6.6
Butler
Scoop
2006
7.8
Superintendent Rathbone
Life on Mars
2006
6.0
Judge Manet
Hunt for Justice
2005
8.0
Lord Goolding
The Thick of It
2005
6.7
General Klaus Werner von Krupt
Hellboy
2004
🎬
3.5
Senior Civil Servant
Dead Gorgeous
2002
0.0
Rev Barlow
Plain Jane
2002
Credits
Man in an Orange Shirt
as Headmaster
2017
7.6
Call the Midwife
as Dr. Godfrey
2012
7.5
A Mighty Heart
as John Bauman
2007
6.4
Scoop
as Butler
2006
6.6
Life on Mars
as Superintendent Rathbone
2006
7.8
Hunt for Justice
as Judge Manet
2005
6.0
The Thick of It
as Lord Goolding
2005
8.0
Hellboy
as General Klaus Werner von Krupt
2004
6.7
🎬
Dead Gorgeous
as Senior Civil Servant
2002
3.5
Plain Jane
as Rev Barlow
2002
0.0
Tube Tales
as Suicide Victim (segment "My Father The Liar")
1999
5.1
All the King's Men
as Lt. Col Proctor Beauchamp
1999
6.2
Half the Picture
as John Major / Paul Henderson
1996
0.0
A Very Open Prison
as Arthur Hare
1995
10.0
Bugs
as Taska
1995
6.8
Dark Obsession
as Inspector Orchard
1990
3.3
Resurrected
as Captain Sinclair
1989
5.6
Birth of a Nation
as Mr James
1983
7.5
Return of the Jedi
as Imperial Commander (uncredited)
1983
7.9
Gandhi
as Adjutant
1982
7.6
For Your Eyes Only
as McGregor
1981
6.5
Edward and Mrs Simpson
as Lord Perry Brownlow
1978
6.2
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Lord Perry Brownlow
1978
10.0
All Creatures Great and Small
as Mr. Blenkinsopp
1978
7.7
A Choice of Evils
as Volponi's Secretary
1977
0.0
🎬
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Bernard
1976
10.0
Kill Two Birds
as Turner
1975
0.0
Sunset Across the Bay
as Doctor
1975
6.0
Blooming Youth
as Chris Green
1973
0.0
🎬
Not Counting the Savages
1972
0.0
🎬
On Reflection: B.S. Johnson on Dr. Samuel Johnson
1972
0.0
The Ragman's Daughter
as Borstal Barber
1972
3.7
Skinflicker
as Georgie
1972
0.0
Poem
as voiceover
1971
0.0
Budgie
as Douglas Hardisty
1971
7.0
Assault
as Chemist in Hospital
1971
5.2
🎬
Paradigm
as Man
1969
0.0
🎬
The Unfortunates
1969
0.0
You're Human Like the Rest of Them
as Haakon
1967
5.5