Basil Radford
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Basil Radford (left) and Naunton Wayne
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| Born |
Arthur Basil Radford 25 June 1897 Chester, Cheshire, England |
| Died | 20 October 1952 (aged 55) London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1929–1952 |
| Spouse(s) | Shirley Deuchars (1926–1952) (his death) 1 child ( George Radford ) |
Arthur Basil Radford (25 June 1897 Chester – 20 October 1952 London) was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his first stage appearance in July 1924. He is probably best-remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as two cricket-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
Radford was born in the town of Chester in Cheshire, England on 25 June 1897.
He was a commissioned officer in the British Army's South Staffordshire Regiment in the First World War, in 1918 transferring into the Royal Air Force, ending the war as a subaltern when he was demobilised in 1920. Radford possessed a crescent-shaped scar on his right facial cheek from a wound sustained during his time in the trenches, depending on the lighting and camera angle it was sometimes barely perceptible, but at other times quite prominent, as can be seen in the films The Way to the Stars and Chance of a Lifetime.
The two first appeared as their characters Charters and Caldicott in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 thriller The Lady Vanishes. They were popular enough to reprise their roles in Night Train to Munich, which was again scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat.
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