Richard Percy Herbert Goolden,
OBE
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(23 February 1895 – 18 June 1981) was a British actor, most famous for his portrayal of Mole from
Kenneth Grahame
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's ''
Wind in the Willows
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'' in
A A Milne's stage adaptation, ''
Toad of Toad Hall''.
Goolden took up the stage after serving in the army in the First World War. From the start of his career he was cast in character parts, usually elderly. He played more than 500 roles in a career that lasted more than fifty years, and embraced the classics,
farce
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,
opera bouffe, radio, films and television. He first played Mole in 1930 and took the part in numerous revivals until his retirement in 1980. He created roles in new plays by
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic ex ...
and
Tom Stoppard
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, and, in his last year, in the radio series ''
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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''.
Life and career
Early years
Goolden was born in London, the son of a
barrister,
["Mr Richard Goolden", ''The Times'', 20 June 1981, p. 14] Percy Pugh Goolden Goolden
ic and his wife Margarida, ''née'' da Costa Ricci.
[Gaye, pp. 658–660] He was educated at
Charterhouse, where his impersonation of the headmaster delighted the headmaster's wife and everybody except possibly the headmaster, who counselled him to "aim at good taste in the use of his gifts". From Charterhouse he went up to
New College, Oxford
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; his university career was interrupted by the First World War. From 1915 to 1918 he was a private in the
Royal Army Medical Corps
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in France (serving in the same unit as
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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), ending the war as acting unpaid lance corporal.
[ Returning to Oxford at the end of the war he took an honours degree in French literature in 1923.]["Goolden, Richard Percy Herbert"]
Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 21 February 2013 He was appointed secretary of the Oxford University Dramatic Society
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, with whom he visited Scandinavia, appearing in Galsworthy
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's ''Loyalties Loyalties may refer to:
* Loyalty
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'' and A A Milne's ''Mr Pim Passes By''. He counted the role of Mr Pim as one of his three favourites, together with Mole in '' Toad of Toad Hall'' and the Fool in ''King Lear
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It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane a ...
''. He appeared as Dolon in Cyril Bailey's production (in the original Greek) of the Euripides
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tragedy '' Rhesus''.[
In October 1923 Goolden made his first professional appearance on stage. For J B Fagan's company at the ]Oxford Playhouse
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he played Mazzini Dunn in Bernard Shaw
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's ''Heartbreak House
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''.[ He later commented, "Shaw was a bloody nuisance; he used to read all the parts himself, convulsed by his own wit – especially the women's parts; he loved mincing up and down."][Lewsen, Charles. "The classic Mr Mole takes over." ''The Times'', 6 December 1975, p. 9] Goolden was a member of Fagan's company for seven years, playing fifty characters.[ While still a member of the Oxford company he appeared in ]Stratford-upon-Avon
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and in the West End
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Pl ...
. At Stratford in 1925 he played Clown (Young Shepherd) in ''The Winter's Tale
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'' with the young John Laurie
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as Autolycus. In London, in the same year, he played Owain Flatfish in Fagan's production of Richard Hughes's ''A Comedy of Good and Evil'' at the Ambassadors
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. Praising his performance, ''The Times
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'' called him "a fishmonger, a guardian angel and a solemn jester rolled generously into one." In the same year he played the aged butler Firs in Fagan's production of ''The Cherry Orchard
''The Cherry Orchard'' (russian: Вишнёвый сад, translit=Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by ''Znaniye'' (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition ...
'' at the Royalty
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, London. ''The Times'' later noted that he was only thirty when he played the role, and in his early years was usually happier when cast as characters twice his age. In this role Goolden had, said the paper, "an inspired rightness".[
]
Hammersmith, West End and Mr Mole
Nigel Playfair
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After acting as an amateur while practising as a ...
had seen Goolden's performances at Stratford, on the strength of which he invited him to appear with his company at the Lyric, Hammersmith
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, ''Riverside Nights'' (1926) and played the professor of philosophy in Molière
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's ''The Would-Be Gentleman
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'' (1926) in a cast headed by Playfair and including Sydney Fairbrother
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Born Sydney Tapping on 31 July 1872 in London to actor/playwright Alfred B. Tapping and actress Florence Cowell, she was educated at Blackpool and Bonn. She made her sta ...
, Miles Malleson
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and James Whale
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.
Over the next three decades Goolden generally divided his theatrical career between Shakespeare and more recent classics, new plays – mostly ephemeral, and his perennial role of Mole in A A Milne's '' Toad of Toad Hall'', based on Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for ''The Wind in the Willows'' (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as '' The Reluctant Dragon''. Both books w ...
's ''The Wind in the Willows
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''. His Shakespeare roles included Costard (''Love's Labours Lost
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'', 1932), Aguecheek (''Twelfth Night
''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins V ...
'', 1933), Quince (''A Midsummer Night's Dream
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'', 1938), Fool (''King Lear
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It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane a ...
'', 1943), Young Gobbo (''The Merchant of Venice
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Although classified as ...
'', 1944), Roderigo (''Othello
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'', 1944), Polonius (''Hamlet
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'', 1944) and Lepidus (''Anthony and Cleopatra
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'', 1951), Shallow (''The Merry Wives of Windsor
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'', 1968), Old Gobbo (''The Merchant of Venice
''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock.
Although classified as ...
'', 1969), Verges (''Much Ado About Nothing
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'', 1970), the Pedant (''The Taming of the Shrew
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'', 1975), Sir Nathaniel (''Love's Labour's Lost'', 1976), and the King of France (''Henry V Henry V may refer to:
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* Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (12 ...
'', 1977).[
Goolden first played Mole in 1930.][ In his later years he was so closely associated with the part that many assumed he had created it.][ In fact it had been created by Alan Webb at the premiere in ]Liverpool
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the previous year; Goolden said of Webb, "He was very good, but felt foolish playing an animal."[ At Milne's recommendation Goolden auditioned for the role of Badger in the first London production; he then auditioned for Ratty, and only after that was he cast in the role that became synonymous with his name. He played the part in revivals from the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. Among those with whom he appeared in the play were ]Wendy Toye
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Toye was born in London. She initially worked as a dancer and choreographe ...
, Leslie Henson
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.["Toad Of Toad Hall", ''The Times'', 12 November 1969, p. 14] Michael Blakemore
Michael Howell Blakemore OBE
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and public service outside the ci ...
, Ian Wallace, Michael Bates, and Nicky Henson
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Early life
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,[ The Variety Club of Great Britain gave him a special award in 1976 for his appearances as Mole. He commented, "The last thing I ever won was a medal for running when I was a youth. Today I feel less like a mole and really rather more like an elderly chimpanzee."
]
Other roles
Goolden appeared in more than 500 stage roles. He attributed this large total to his habit of getting himself cast in plays that failed. He recalled one of the worst: "It lasted five nights and ewere given notice after the first. One matinée was cancelled because they had sold no tickets at all for that performance. Still, ehad two nice parties, one to open and one to close, within a week."
On radio Goolden played the part of Mr Chips, adapted from the novel by James Hilton. He then achieved popularity as the comic character Mr Penny, "a timid fellow, who went quietly off to the office each morning only to be involved in some extraordinary adventure". Goolden appeared in films including '' Whom the Gods Love'' (1936), ''In the Doghouse
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'' (1961), '' It's All Happening'' (1963), ''The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
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'' (1965), '' It!'' (1967), and ''Joseph Andrews
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'' (1977).[ For ]BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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television he played a range of roles, including Pond, the headmaster, in '' The Happiest Days of Your Life'' (1947), the title role in '' The Magistrate'' (1951), Mr Dick in ''David Copperfield
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'' (1956), Cinna the poet in '' Julius Caesar'' (1959), and Albert in ''The Flaxton Boys
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'' (1970).["Richard Goolden"]
British Film Institute, accessed 21 February 2013
In his entry in ''Who's Who'', Goolden wrote that he had played "a diversity of parts ranging from traditional classical repertoire to Farce, Opera Bouffe, Revue, Single Act Variety and Seaside Piers." One of the farce
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s was ''Charley's Aunt
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'', in which he played the principal role of Babbs in 1938 at the Haymarket; another was ''Look After Lulu'', by Georges Feydeau
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Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parent ...
adapted by Noël Coward
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, in 1959.[ The opera bouffe was Offenbach's '']The Grand Duchess
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'' at Daly's Theatre
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in 1937.[ One of his less typical roles was Nagg in the premiere of '']Endgame
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'', Beckett
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's English version of his play ''Fin de partie''. A lasting friendship grew between the playwright and the actor.
Goolden's last new stage role of note was in Stoppard's ''Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land
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'' in 1976. He played Bernard, a very senior civil servant who rambles reminiscently about Lloyd George
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and General Haig before dozing off while his younger colleague (Arthur, played by Stephen Moore) extols the beauties of America at mesmeric length. When ''Toad of Toad Hall'' was revived during the Christmas season, Goolden, by then in his early eighties, played three performances a day: two matinées as Mole and the evening show as Bernard.[
Goolden's last role was on radio as Zaphod Beeblebrox IV in '']The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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'', broadcast in January 1980. In November 1980, following a stay in hospital, he appeared as a guest on an episode of '' This Is Your Life'' for actor Peter Bowles
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. That same year Goolden announced his retirement.["The Mole goes to ground", ''The Observer'' 16 November 1980, p. 2] He died the following year in St Stephen's Hospital
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, Fulham, near the Chelsea house in which he had lived since 1924. He was unmarried.[
]
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