Richard III (1995). He also played Baron de Charlus in the 1997 radio adaptation of Harold Pinter's screenplay of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. In 1994, he played the East End gangster in Philip Ridley's Ghost from a Perfect Place at the Hampstead theatre. Wood returned to the National Theatre in 1997 for Richard Eyre's production of The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard. Wood played the aging classical scholar and poet A.E. Housman in a role written specifically for him by Stoppard, and for which he received a nomination for an Olivier Award. He played Spooner at the National Theatre in 2001 in Harold Pinter's, No Man's Land. He last appeared on stage in 2005 at the National Theatre in both parts of Henry IV. He was supposed to appear in the Robert Altman-directed Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller at the Old Vic but had to withdraw because of illness. Wood made his last television appearance guesting on Lewis in 2007. Death Wood died of natural causes on 6 August 2011 in Gloucestershire at the age of 81. Filmography Film Television Awards and honours Commander of the Order of the British Empire Wood was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List of 2007. Tony Awards Screen Actors Guild Award References Obituary, The (London) Times, 11 Aug 2011 Obituary, The Guardian, 11 August 2011 - Michael Coveney Obituary, Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2011 Obituary, New York Times, 11 August 2011 - Margalit Fox "John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew", Michael Billington, Guardian, 11 Aug 2011 Obituary, The Independent, 18 August 2011 "Why Did Broadway's Leading Man, John Wood, Do a Movie with Farrah Fawcett-Majors? 'Money'", People, 4 September 1978 "John Wood: At Long Last Lear", Theatre Week, 1990 External links Obituary in The Guardian Obituary in The Telegraph 1930 births 2011 deaths 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford British shooting survivors Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Drama Desk Award winners English male film actors English male Shakespearean actors English male stage actors English male television actors Male actors from Derbyshire People educated at Bedford School Royal Artillery officers Royal Shakespeare Company members Tony Award winners