Richard Haydn

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Richard Haydn 1945

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)

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 .

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personal data
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