Fictional character from the British sitcom Yes Minister
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Fictional character
Sir Bernard Woolley GCB, MA (Oxon)
Derek Fowlds as Bernard Woolley in Yes, Prime Minister
First appearance
"Open Government"
Last appearance
"The Tangled Web"
Portrayed by
Derek Fowlds (original) Chris Larkin (2013 revival)
In-universe information
Occupation
Principal Private Secretary, Permanent Secretary
Sir Bernard Woolley, GCB, MA (Oxon) is one of the three main fictional characters of the 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. He is a civil servant, working as Minister (later Prime Minister) Jim Hacker's Principal Private Secretary. He was portrayed originally by Derek Fowlds, with Chris Larkin taking on the part for the 2013 revival.
Sir BernardWoolley, GCB, MA (Oxon) is one of the three main fictional characters of the 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime...
Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary BernardWoolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually caught between the two. The sequel...
2013 he starred in the television revival of Yes, Prime Minister as BernardWoolley, reprising the role he had played in the Gielgud Theatre in London's...
appearances as "Mr Derek" in The Basil Brush Show (1969–1973), as BernardWoolley in the sitcom Yes Minister (1980–1984) and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister...
Comb cereal Bernard Wiseman, a character from Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket BernardWoolley, a character from Yes Minister Bernard Mickey Wrangle...
including those of Sir Arnold Robinson (portrayed by John Nettleton) and BernardWoolley (played by Derek Fowlds). The phrase is also quoted in The Three Musketeers...
Jim Hacker frequently drinks sherry with Sir Humphrey Appleby and BernardWoolley in his office. Sherry, and Amontillado specifically, is heavily featured...
Private Secretary, BernardWoolley. He frequently lectures the naïve Woolley in the realities of political matters. When Woolley's loyalty to the Minister...
Private Secretary, BernardWoolley, about what the various post-nominals stand for. From Series 2, Episode 2 "Doing the Honours": Woolley: In the [civil]...
Richard II, Fluellen, Richard Duke of York and Richard III. He played BernardWoolley, the Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, in the stage version...
sitcom Yes, Minister, usually as a remote and unfavorable location. BernardWoolley is regularly threatened with reassignment there. In the episode "Big...
and the minister himself, and his own Principal Private Secretary, BernardWoolley. Hacker had been helped in his re-election by political adviser Frank...
Newcastle. Lossiemouth was mentioned in Yes, Prime Minister; character BernardWoolley thought it was a type of dog food. "Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ~ Gaelic...
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Humphrey Appleby, Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker, and Derek Fowlds as BernardWoolley "Christmas Trees" is the title of this vignette, in which Del Boy is...
married U.S. Marine Corps Captain Charles S. Robb, son of Frances Howard (Woolley) and James Spittal Robb, in the East Room of the White House in 1967 in...
Behan – The Belle of Belfast – Ensemble Studio Theatre Jefferson Mays as BernardWoolley – Yes, Prime Minister – Geffen Playhouse Tony Amendola as Sir George...
Mallowan Stanley Townsend as Sir Constance Bernard Jack Deam as Leonard Woolley Katherine Kingsley as Katharine Woolley Waj Ali as Ezekiel Rory Fleck Byrne as...
original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved August 30, 2021. Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. (December 12, 1974). "Address Announcing Candidacy for the Democratic...
working-class life in Liverpool, written by Frank Clarke and directed by Chris Bernard. It starred Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke, Alfred Molina, Peter Firth and...
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alkaline complex" (PDF). Geology. 33 (8): 665–68. doi:10.1130/G21542AR.1. Woolley, Alan Robert (1987). Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Austin...