Basil Radford
Biography
Arthur Basil Radford (25 June 1897 – 20 October 1952) was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably best remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as one half of Charters and Caldicott, two cricket-obsessed Englishmen who appeared in several films from 1938 to 1949, most famously in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Filmography
The Galloping Major
1951
as Major Arthur Hill
White Corridors
1951
as Retired Civil Servant
Ha'penny Breeze
1950
as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Chance of a Lifetime
1950
as Dickinson
Passport to Pimlico
1949
as Gregg
Helter Skelter
1949
as Maj. Bright (uncredited)
Whisky Galore!
1949
as Captain Paul Waggett
Stop Press Girl
1949
as The Mechanical Type
It's Not Cricket
1949
as Maj. Bright
Quartet
1948
as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
The Winslow Boy
1948
as Desmond Curry
A Girl in a Million
1946
as Prendergast
The Captive Heart
1946
as Major Ossy Dalrymple
Dead of Night
1945
as George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
The Way to the Stars
1945
as 'Tiny' Williams
Twilight Hour
1945
as Lord Chetwood
- No poster
Dear Octopus
1943
as Kenneth
Millions Like Us
1943
as Charters
- No poster
London Scrapbook
1942
as Himself
Unpublished Story
1942
as Lamb
The Next of Kin
1942
as Careless Talker on Train
Flying Fortress
1942
as Captain Wilkinson
Room for Two
1940
as Robert Spencer
The Flying Squad
1940
as Sederman