Richard Haydn
Richard Haydn (born March 10, 1905 in London , † April 25, 1985 in Pacific Palisades ) was a British actor and film director .
Live and act
Haydn worked temporarily on a banana plantation in Jamaica and adorned the actors of the film Drums in the Night , which was just being shot in Jamaica, as a make-up man . Back in London, he began his theater career as a ticket seller and appeared on various revue stages in the 1930s. Here he gained some popularity from 1936 in his role of Edwin Carp, a nasal, pinched, and preferably fish-imitating idiot.
In 1939 Haydn came to the USA, where he appeared on Broadway . With the film since 1939, he was regularly committed to Carp-like, stilted and patriarchal types. In Billy Wilder's comedy I kiss your hand, Madame , he played Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Between 1948 and 1950, Haydn tried three times as a film director. In the mid-1960s he retired from acting and only appeared again as Mr. Falkstein in the horror comedy Frankenstein Junior in front of the camera.
Filmography (selection)
- 1941: The Strange Taming of the Gangster Bride Sugarpuss (Ball of Fire)
- 1943: For ever and a day (Forever and a Day)
- 1943: No Time for Love
- 1945: Man without a Heart (Adventure)
- 1945: The last weekend ( And Then There Were None )
- 1945: Tonight and Every Night
- 1946: Cluny Brown on Free Feet (Cluny Brown)
- 1946: The Legacy (The Green Years)
- 1947: A World at Your Feet (The Foxes of Harrow)
- 1947: Singapore (Singapore)
- 1947: Amber, the great courtesan (Forever Amber)
- 1948: I kiss your hand, Madame (The Emperor Waltz)
- 1948: Belvedere cleans up (Sitting Pretty)
- 1951: Alice in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland)
- 1952: The Merry Widow (The Merry Widow)
- 1953: It started in Moscow (Never Let Me Go)
- 1953: The Daring Jockey (Money from Home)
- 1954: Her Twelve Men (Her Twelve Men)
- 1955: Jupiter's Darling
- 1958: Twilight for the Gods
- 1960: Championship in fling (Please Don't Eat the Daisie)
- 1960: The Lost World (The Lost World)
- 1962: Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty )
- 1965: My songs - my dreams (The Sound of Music)
- 1965: Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion)
- 1967: Bullwhip Griffin or Gold Rush in California (The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin)
- 1974: Frankenstein Junior (Young Frankenstein)
Director
- 1950: Mr. Music
- 1949: Dear Wife
- 1948: Miss Tatlock's Millions
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .
Web links
- Richard Haydn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Richard Haydn in the database of Find a Grave (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Haydn, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor and film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1905 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1985 |
Place of death | Pacific Palisades |