Reginald Beckwith

Reginald Beckwith (born November 2, 1908 in York , United Kingdom , † June 26, 1965 in Bourne End , Buckinghamshire ) was a British actor , film critic and playwright .

Life

Beckwith began his theater career in 1926 in William Shakespeare's Richard II and from then on concentrated on his stage work until the end of the 1930s, but also worked as a film critic. Most recently he was also active as a playwright, his play " Boys in Brown " was performed in 1940 and brought to the cinemas in 1949 as a film adaptation.

In 1938 Beckwith decided to move in front of the camera and worked in some very early British television films until shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. In 1940 he made his film debut, but the Second World War interrupted Beckwith's artistic activity. From 1941 to 1945 Beckwith worked as a war correspondent. After the end of the war, he returned to the camera and became one of the busiest supporting actors in domestic films, but also again on television. In the remaining two decades of his life, he performed an abundance of supporting roles in British entertainment productions. Beckwith, an actor of compact appearance, from then on played fussy and petty to nervous upper class types, state representatives and dignitaries of all kinds, but also “little people”, whom he often twisted into weird and comic.

Filmography

• 1938: Cornelius (TV movie)
• 1939: The Cate Revue (TV movie)
• 1941: Freedom Radio
• 1946: This Man is Mine
• 1947: A World in Your Eye (TV movie)
• 1948: The Man Without a Conscience (My Brother's Keeper)
• 1948: Scott's Last Voyage (Scott of the Antarctic)
• 1949: Miss Pilgrim's Progress
• 1950: The Atomic Duck (Mister Drake's Duck)
• 1951: The 13th Guest (Circle of Danger)
• 1951: Another Man's Poison
• 1952: Brandy for the authorities (Brandy for the Parson)
• 1952: The Smuggler Princess (Penny Princess)
• 1952: Titfield-Express (The Titfield Thunderbolt)
• 1953: The fiery Isabella (Genevieve)
• 1953: Innocents in Paris
• 1953: His biggest bluff (The Million Pound Note)
• 1954: Born to dance (Dance, Little Lady)
• 1954: Robin Hood, the red avenger (The Men of Sherwood Forest)
• 1954: The inheritance of Aunt Clara (Aunt Clara)
• 1955: Spy Network Hamburg (Break in the Circle)
• 1955: The Last Deadline (They Can't Hang Me)
• 1956: Charley Moon
• 1956: A Touch of the Sun
• 1957: Carry on Admiral
• 1957: It Started When She Said No (These Dangerous Years)
• 1957: Lucky Jim
• 1957: Night of the Demon (Night of the Demon)
• 1958: Always Trouble with the Navy (Up the Creek)
• 1958: Welcome to Kittchen (Law and Disorder)
• 1958: The Horse's Mouth (The Horse's Mouth)
• 1958: An island is upside down (Rockets Galore!)
• 1958: The Luxus-Käpt'n (The Captain's Table)
• 1959: The 39 Steps (The 39 Steps)
• 1959: Upstairs - Downstairs (Upstairs and Downstairs)
• 1959: Expresso Bongo
• 1960: Love three times a day (Doctor in Love)
• 1960: There Was a Crooked Man
• 1960: Beautiful widows are dangerous (Five Golden Hours)
• 1961: The Day the Earth Caught Fire (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
• 1961: Hypno (Night of the Eagle)
• 1962: The Girl on the Boat
• 1962: The Password Is Courage
• 1963: Hotel International (The VIPs)
• 1963: Lancelot, the daring knight (Lancelot and Guinevere)
• 1963: Doctor in Distress
• 1964: A Shot in the Dark (A Shot in the Dark)
• 1964: The Yellow Rolls-Royce (The Yellow Rolls-Royce)
• 1964: The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders)
• 1964: South of the Pangani River (Mister Moses)
• 1964: In the Clutches of the Black Spider (The Secret of My Success)
• 1965: James Bond 007 - Thunderball
• 1965: Daggers in the Kasbah (Where the Spies Are)

literature

• International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 18

Web links

• Reginald Beckwith in the Internet Movie Database (English)