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Arthur Basil Radford (25 June 1897 Chester – 20 October 1952 London) was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his first stage appearance in July 1924. He is probably best-remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as two cricket-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
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Birth name Arthur Basil Radford
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 25 june 1897 at Chester (United-kingdom)
Death 20 october 1952 (at 55 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 25 june 1897 at Chester (United-kingdom)
Death 20 october 1952 (at 55 years) at London (United-kingdom)
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In 1926 he married Shirley Deuchars. They had one son.Usually with
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The Galloping Major (1951)
, 1h22Directed by Henry Cornelius
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott, A. E. Matthews, Rene Ray, Hugh Griffith
Roles Major Arthur Hill
Rating61%
White Corridors (1951)
, 1h42Directed by Pat Jackson
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Petula Clark, Jean Anderson, Timothy Bateson
Roles Retired Civil Servant
Rating70%
The day-to-day life of the staff and patients at a city hospital.
Chance of a Lifetime (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Bernard Miles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Basil Radford, Kenneth More, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Geoffrey Keen, John Harvey
Roles Dickinson
Rating67%
In the times of austerity after the Second World War a failing factory's owner hands the factory over to the workers to run it for themselves.
Ha'penny Breeze (1950)
Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Edwin Richfield, Don Sharp, Darcy Conyers, Michael Gough, Basil Radford
Roles Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Rating62%
David and his Australian friend Johnny return to a Suffolk village after the war to find the community completely dispirited. Gradually by their enthusiasm they win support for a scheme to enter a boat designed by David in a race.
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
, 1h24Directed by Henry Cornelius
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, Raymond Huntley, Sydney Tafler
Roles Gregg
Rating70%
When some local children roll a tractor tyre down a hole, it sets off an unexploded bomb left over from the Second World War in Miramont Gardens in the Pimlico district of London. The explosion reveals a buried cellar containing artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancient parchment document. Professor Hatton-Jones (Margaret Rutherford) authenticates it as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded the house and its estates to Charles VII ("the Rash"), the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at the Battle of Nancy. As the charter had never been revoked, Pimlico is legally part of Burgundy. Local policeman P.
Whisky Galore! (1949)
, 1h22Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, Wylie Watson
Roles Captain Paul Waggett
Rating70%
The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing, until the supply of whisky runs out in 1943. Then gloom descends on the disconsolate natives.
Helter Skelter (1949)
, 1h24Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors David Tomlinson, Carol Marsh, Mervyn Johns, Peter Hammond, Richard Hearne, Jon Pertwee
Roles Maj. Bright
Rating52%
Susan Graham (Carol Marsh) is a discontented heiress whose joint guardians (Mervyn Johns and Peter Haddon) are both trying to get her married to their odious nephews (Peter Hammond and Geoffrey Sumner, respectively). On her nineteenth birthday, the five of them visit a nightclub called the Magnolia Club; also present happens to be radio star Nick Martin (David Tomlinson), whom Susan detests. When she is inadvertently seated at Martin's table directly in front of the floor show, she refuses to move, and Martin, despite his radio reputation as a fearless detective, is too intimidated by her hauteur to insist. This, however, proves to be a mixed blessing for Susan; when the evening's principal performer, a ventriloquist, comes out, she laughs so hard at his routine that she gets a bad case of the hiccups. She attempts to cure them by getting a drink of water, but succeeds only in getting caught in the crossfire of a pie fight.
It's Not Cricket (1949)
, 1h17Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films
Actors Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw, Maurice Denham, Alan Wheatley, Jane Carr
Roles Maj. Bright
Rating60%
Major Bright and Captain Early are intelligence officers in the British army of occupation in post-World War 2 Germany. They are sent home on leave, but fail to notice that their new batman is actually wanted war criminal Otto Fisch. He vanishes on arrival in England and the two officers are punished by early demobilisation. Uncertain what to do in civvy street, they decide to utilise the "skills" they learned in the army and set up a private detective agency, "Bright and Early". They engage a secretary, Primrose Brown, but she's not very busy as they have as yet no clients.
Stop Press Girl (1949)
, 1h18Directed by Michael Barry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford, James Robertson Justice, Kenneth More, Naunton Wayne
Roles The Mechanical Type
Rating60%
Jennifer Peters is a normal girl except for one unfortunate trait. All the women in her family stop any mechanical contrivance that they travel in. As the film progresses, Jennifer stops her boyfriend's automobile, then a train she travels in without being aware of what she does. Tension mounts when a girlfriend takes ill and Jennifer takes her job; an air hostess on a Liberator airliner!
Quartet (1948)
, 2hDirected by Arthur Crabtree, Ken Annakin, Harold French, Ralph Foster Smart
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Anthology film
Actors Cecil Parker, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Watling, George Cole, Mai Zetterling, Honor Blackman
Roles Henry Garnet
Rating72%
Despite their reservations, Mr. and Mrs. Garnet allow their promising tennis player son, nineteen-year-old Nicky Garnet, to travel by himself to Monte Carlo to compete in a tournament. Mr. Garnet gives him some advice: never gamble, never lend money, and don't have anything to do with women. On the last night of his stay, he disregards all three: he wins a large amount of money at roulette and meets a beautiful woman named Jeanne, who borrows from him before he can react. Later, she repays him, then takes him dancing at a nightclub.
The Winslow Boy (1948)
, 1h57Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Neil North, Jack Watling
Roles Desmond Curry
Rating75%
Ronnie Winslow (Neil North), a cadet at the Royal Naval College, is accused of the theft of a postal order. An internal enquiry which grants him no chance of defence, finds him guilty and his father, Arthur Winslow (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), is requested to remove his son from the college. Unwilling to accept the verdict, Winslow and his daughter Catherine institute their own enquiries and engage a friend and family solicitor, Desmond Curry (Basil Radford) to assist them, including the briefing of the best barrister in England at the time, Sir Robert Morton (Robert Donat), should the case come to court.
The Captive Heart (1946)
, 1h44Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Mervyn Johns, Frederick Leister, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson
Roles Major Ossy Dalrymple
Rating69%
In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave) of the Czech army escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell. When he is caught, he joins thousands of British prisoners of war, captured during the Fall of France, on a march to a prison camp.
A Girl in a Million (1946)
, 1h30Directed by Francis Searle
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Hugh Williams, Joan Greenwood, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Rating64%
Tony is an inventor who divorces a shrewish, nagging wife, and desiring to avoid all women, finds employment in a remote all-male department of the War Office. However, a woman soon arrives in the form of U.S. colonel's daughter, Gay, who is shell-shocked, and has lost the power of speech. Charmed by her and by the contrast with his former talkative wife, Tony soon falls in love and marries her. However, once wed, Gay suffers a further shock and recovers her speech, proving quite the match for Tony's first wife.
Dead of Night (1945)
, 1h42Directed by Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Renee Gadd, Frederick Valk, Roland Culver, Sally Ann Howes
Roles George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Rating74%
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house party where he reveals to the assembled guests that he has seen them all in a dream. He appears to have no prior personal knowledge of them but he is able to predict spontaneous events in the house before they unfold. The other guests attempt to test Craig's foresight, while entertaining each other with various tales of uncanny or supernatural events that they experienced or were told about. These include a racing car driver's premonition of a fatal bus crash; a light-hearted tale of two obsessed golfers, one of whom becomes haunted by the other's ghost (cut from the initial USA release); a ghostly encounter during a children's Christmas party (another tale cut from the initial USA release); a haunted antique mirror; and the story of an unbalanced ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) who believes his amoral dummy is truly alive. The framing story is then capped by a twist ending.
The Way to the Stars (1945)
, 1h49Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Films based on plays, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Rosamund Greenwood, Stanley Holloway, Douglass Montgomery
Roles 'Tiny' Williams
Rating72%
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose (John Mills) is posted in the summer of 1940 as a pilot to (the fictional) No. 720 Squadron, at a new airfield, RAF Station Halfpenny Field, as a very green "15-hour sprog" Bristol Blenheim pilot and is assigned to B Flight, under Flight Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave).