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Widely remembered for his excessive corpulence on stage and television,
Willoughby Goddard spent over 40 years never trying to disguise it. It
brought him authority, variety, monotony and joy. Whether he was genial or
aggressive, alarming or soothing, he could be cast in all sorts of moods.
Sometimes he played up self-consciously to his weightiness; sometimes it
hardly mattered. He could play judges, professors, mayors, landlords,
managing directors and chairmen; he could also play sundry characters of no
importance whatever.
Source: Times
