Felix Felton

Felix Felton (12 August 1911 – 21 October 1972) was a British film, television, stage and voice actor as well as a radio director, composer and author.

In his earlier years Felton considered becoming a professional pianist, a composer or a classical scholar, but instead chose to become an actor. At the University of Oxford where he studied Music he was President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He began his acting career as Bottom in Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He joined BBC Radio in 1934 where he was a producer, actor and director until 1948, producing Calling Germany in 1943 and directing a BBC Radio production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida in 1946, among others. In 1941 he was a Senior Instructor on the BBC's 'General Broadcasting Technique' course which included George Orwell as a student when he joined the BBC's Overseas Service. He resigned from his post at the BBC in 1948 in order to concentrate on a career as a freelance writer and actor.

In 1961 he adapted Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers into a six-part series for Children's Hour for BBC Radio; In 1962 he adapted her book Dawn Wind for radio and himself played the role of Einon Hen. Felton adapted The Hound of the Baskervilles into Baskervilles Hund which was broadcast on Danish radio in January 1964.

Felton's stage appearances included the speaking-role of Merlin in a concert version of King Arthur and broadcast by BBC Radio from Cambridge in 1949,The Pajama Game at the London Coliseum (1955), Nekrassov by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Royal Court Theatre (1957), and Frank Loesser's musical Where's Charley? with Norman Wisdom at the Palace Theatre in London in 1958.

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