Henry Woolf

Henry Woolf
Born(1930-01-20)20 January 1930
Homerton, London, England
Died11 November 2021(2021-11-11) (aged 91)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Occupation(s)Actor, theatre director
Years active1957–2021
Spouse
Susan Williamson
(m. 1968)
Children4

Henry Woolf SOM (20 January 1930 – 11 November 2021) was a British actor, theatre director, and teacher of acting, drama and theatre who lived in Canada. He was a longtime friend and collaborator of 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, having stimulated Pinter to write his first play, The Room (1957), in 1956. Woolf served as a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan from 1983 to 1997 and as artistic director of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan from 1991 until 2001.