Laurence Payne
| Laurence Payne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Laurence Stanley Payne 5 June 1919 London, England, UK |
| Died | 23 February 2009 (aged 89) London, England, UK |
| Occupation |
actor novelist |
| Years active | 1946-1992 |
| Spouse(s) | Judith Draper Pamela Alan (divorced) Sheila Burrell (divorced) |
Laurence Payne (5 June 1919 – 23 February 2009) was an English actor and novelist.
Laurence Stanley Payne was born in London. His father died when he was three years old, and he and his elder brother and sister were brought up by their mother, a Wesleyan Methodist in Wood Green, London. He attended Belmont School and Tottenham Grammar School, leaving at 16 to take a clerical job. After training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1939, he was exempted from war service as a conscientious objector on condition that he went on tour with the Old Vic during the war.
Payne made his professional debut at the Old Vic theatre in 1939 and remained with the company for several years. He then performed at the Chanticleer and Arts theatres in London, also directing and broadcasting for the first times during this period. At Stratford-on-Avon he played, among other parts, Romeo in Peter Brook's 1947 production.
After more work at London theatres, he played leading roles at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic, and after that rejoined the London Old Vic company. At the Embassy Theatre in London he played Hamlet.
His film credits include: The Trollenberg Terror (aka. The Crawling Eye), Vampire Circus, The Tell-Tale Heart and Ben-Hur. His television credits include: Z-Cars, Moonstrike, The Sandbaggers, Airline, Telephone Soup and Tales of the Unexpected. See him also as Capulet in a 1976 version of Romeo and Juliet.
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