Corbet Woodall

Who was Corbet Woodall?

Corbet Woodall, was a British newsreader for the BBC.

As well as being a 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 would have been more frequent, but according to author Robert Ross in his book "The Goodies Rule OK" 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 he rose from the dead and delivered every time."

Woodall recounted his struggle with the illness in his autobiography A Disjointed Life.