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Joseph

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Leo G Carroll as Joseph
Leo G Carroll from the 1939 film
Aubrey Woods as Joseph
Aubrey Woods from the 1970 film
Brian Wilde as Joseph
Brian Wilde from the 1978 TV drama
Robert Demeger as Joseph
Robert Demeger from the 1992 film
Tom Georgeson as Joseph
Tom Georgeson from the 1998  TV drama
Des McAleer as Joseph
Des McAleer from the 2009  TV drama

The lifelong servant at Wuthering Heights, to the Earnshaws and then Heathcliff. Fanatically Calvinist and self-righteous, he is unpleasant and unkind. He speaks in a broad Yorkshire accent.
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Basic Details
Parents: unknown Siblings: unknown
Date of birth: unknown, probably around 1730. As he is considered 'very old' in 1801, he would have been born in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was an important servant to Mr Earnshaw in 1771 and had been serving the family for "sixty years" in 1802. Place of birth: unknown
Married: apparently never Children: none known
Physical description: "vineger-faced", hale and sinewy
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Quotes

He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.

(1801, aged about 71) Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy. 'The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

(1801, aged about 71) Vinegar-faced Joseph projected his head from a round window of the barn.

  

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