Richard Haydn

Richard Haydn
Born	George Richard Haydon March 10, 1905(1905-03-10) Camberwell, London, England UK
Died	April 25, 1985 (aged 80) (heart attack) Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation	Actor, Writer

Richard Haydn (March 10, 1905 – April 25, 1985) was an English comic actor in radio, movies, and television.

Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Television appearances 3 Partial filmography 4 Other Works 5 External links

Early life and career

Born in London, he was known for playing eccentric characters, among whom were Edwin Carp, Claud Curdle, Richard Rancyd and Stanley Stayle. Much of his stage delivery was done in a deliberate over-nasalized and over-enunciated speech pattern, possibly best noted in his performance as the voice of the Caterpillar in the Disney animated film adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Television appearances

In The Twilight Zone episode "A Thing About Machines", he portrayed a quirky, self-absorbed, technophobe who is confronted by every machine in his home.

On April 1, 1964, he reprised the Edwin Carp character, a poet and an expert on fish, in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show which saluted several old-time radio performers.

Partial filmography

• Professor Oddley in the comedy Ball of Fire (1941).
• Thomas Rogers, the butler, in And Then There Were None based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (1945).
• Jason Reid, the schoolmaster, in The Green Years (1946).
• Bertie Searles, the English jockey, in Money from Home (1953).
• Alfred in Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1960), generally a straight character albeit with comic overtones.
• Maximilian Detweiler in The Sound Of Music (1965), another relatively straight comedic part.
• Solicitor Herr Falkstein in Mel Brooks's comedy Young Frankenstein (1974).
• The Hugga Bunch (1985), his final film appearance.

Other Works

He was a regular on the Burns and Allen radio show.

He directed ""Miss Tatlock's Millions" in 1948

Haydn authored one book The Journal of Edwin Carp in 1954.

External links

• Richard Haydn at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Haydn, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haydon, George Richard
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor, Writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1905-03-10
PLACE OF BIRTH	Camberwell, London, England UK
DATE OF DEATH	1985-04-25 (heart attack)
PLACE OF DEATH	Los Angeles, California, USA

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