Corbet Woodall

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Corbet Woodall (1929 – May 19, 1982), was a British newsreader for the BBC.

As well as being a genuine newsreader, Corbet Woodall appeared in many television series, and also in some films. He invariably acted as either a television newsreader, or as an announcer.

On television, Corbet Woodall appeared in several episodes of The Goodies, as well as Steptoe and Son, A Fine Romance and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, among others. Crippled with rheumatoid arthritis,Woodall's frequent appearances on The Goodies(1970-1981) would have been even more,but according to author Robert Ross in his book "The Goodies Rule OK"(ABC Books,2006)his contract was often marked "Artist ill".In an interview with Ross,Tim Brooke-Taylor praised Woodall's professionalism in wake of his debilitating illness."He wasn't a well man at all,but(on camera) he rose from from the dead and delivered everytime."

Woodall recounted his struggle with the illness in his autobiography "A Disjointed Life"(Heinmann,1980.)