Bob Goody Dies: Classically-Trained Actor And Co-Writer Of BBC Comedy ‘Wilderness Road’ Was 71
deadline.comBob Goody, veteran British stage and screen actor and co-writer of 1985 BBC1 comedy Wilderness Road, has died aged 71. He passed away on March 5 after a long battle with cancer that he chronicled in a book of verse.
Born in Brighton in 1951, Goody trained at RADA and became known as a charismatic actor and poet. He fronted his own ITV children’s sketch show, Smith & Goody, in the 1980s with writer and comedian Mel Smith before penning Wilderness Road, a sitcom set in a seedy London pub, with Richard Cottan.
Goody’s TV acting roles included appearances in Bleak House, EastEnders, Lovejoy, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels TV spin-off Lock Stock… and Queens of Mystery, and his film roles include Peter Greenaway’s The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner and Peterloo, and The Borrowers.
He also toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was part of Patrick Barlow’s National Theatre Of Brent. Cottan, his writing partner, called him “outgoing, warm, ineffably generous” and “a natural performer.
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