Maurice Woodruff (1920-1973) was an English seer or clairvoyant, and astrologer based in London. He achieved considerable fame, travelling to Los Angeles to record television shows, amongst other international appearances. His most notable client was the actor Peter Sellers, who was reluctant to make a major decision without a consultation. It has been alleged that he accepted bribes from studios wanting the actor to make a film to slant a prediction in their favour. He claimed to receive 14,000 letters each week. Always heavily in debt, he kept a flat in Hampstead and a country house as well as running a Rolls-Royce. He wrote a book, Woody, about his mother, also a psychic. He was openly gay and nominated his long-term lover and manager Harry Arnold as his successor. He died in Singapore while doing a show there. Maurice was host of the hour-long program, Maurice Woodruff Predicts, a short-lived talk show syndicated for only part of 1969. Stephen Fry portrayed Woodruff in the 2004 film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
