Richard Haydn

Actor

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Also Known As

Edwin Carp, Richard Rancyd, Claud Curdle

Birth Place

England, GB

Born

March 10, 1905

Died

April 23, 1985

Biography

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British actor Richard Haydn worked as a plantation owner and a ticket seller before becoming a successful actor with roles in family-friendly films like "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Sound of Music." Haydn, who developed a unique on-screen habit of over-enunciating his words and speaking in a nasally tone of voice, made his film debut as the scheming title character in the 1941 romantic...

Filmography

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Mr. Music (1950)

Dear Wife (1950)

Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

The Return Of Charlie Chan (1971)

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

Quentin Bartlett

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Forever Amber (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You Didn't Tell Me You Had An Uncle

Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion (1965) -- (Movie Clip) I Was Rather Heroic

Biography

British actor Richard Haydn worked as a plantation owner and a ticket seller before becoming a successful actor with roles in family-friendly films like "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Sound of Music." Haydn, who developed a unique on-screen habit of over-enunciating his words and speaking in a nasally tone of voice, made his film debut as the scheming title character in the 1941 romantic comedy "Charley's Aunt," and gained considerable notice for his turn as a butler wrongly accused of murder in "And Then There Were None," based on the Agatha Christie novel about a group of dinner guests who discover a killer among them. He provided the indignant voice of the hookah-smoking Caterpillar in the classic animated Disney film "Alice in Wonderland," and portrayed arts patron Max Detweiler in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music." In addition to his work on live theater anthology shows like "Playhouse 90" and "G.E. True Theater," Haydn memorably portrayed a machine-averse food critic in an episode of "The Twilight Zone," and appeared on the popular sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show" as his signature radio character: poetry and fishing enthusiast Edwin Carp. He also directed several films, most notably the assumed identity romantic comedy "Miss Tatlock's Millions," and published a book entitled "The Journal of Edwin Carp."

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Mr. Music (1950)

Dear Wife (1950)

Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)

Cast (Feature Film)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

The Return Of Charlie Chan (1971)

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

Quentin Bartlett

The Sound of Music (1965)

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)

Rupert Rowbotham

Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

Sir Henry Vining

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

The Lost World (1960)

Professor Summerlee

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

Twilight for the Gods (1958)

Oliver Randall Wiggins

The Toy Tiger (1956)

Jupiter's Darling (1955)

Her Twelve Men (1954)

Dr. Avord Barrett

Money from Home (1954)

Never Let Me Go (1953)

Christopher Wellington St. John Denny

The Merry Widow (1952)

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

[Voice of] Caterpillar

Mr. Music (1950)

Sitting Pretty (1948)

The Emperor Waltz (1948)

Emperor Franz Joseph

Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)

The Beginning or the End (1947)

Forever Amber (1947)

Earl of Radcliffe

The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

The Late George Apley (1947)

Horatio Willing

Singapore (1947)

The Green Years (1946)

Cluny Brown (1946)

Jonathan W. Wilson

Adventure (1946)

Tonight and Every Night (1945)

And Then There Were None (1945)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Boarder at Trimble Hall

No Time for Love (1943)

Ball of Fire (1942)

Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

Thunder Birds (1942)

George Lockwood

Charley's Aunt (1941)

Charley Wykeham

Director (Special)

Bachelor Party (1959)

Cast (Special)

The Wide Open Door (1967)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Please Don't Eat the Daisies - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are several photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of MGM's Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960), starring Doris Day and David Niven.

Videos

Forever Amber (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You Didn't Tell Me You Had An Uncle Clever shooting by director Otto Preminger, as Linda Darnell (title character) is now a London actress, pursued by wealthy Radcliffe (Richard Haydn), attended by her fellow former prisoner Nan (Jessica Tandy), thrilled to see old pal Harry (Richard Greene), who upsets her current sponsor Morgan (Glenn Langan), in Forever Amber, 1947.

Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion (1965) -- (Movie Clip) I Was Rather Heroic Introducing the English tutor Rowbotham (Richard Haydn), a big character here but absent from the TV spinoff series Daktari, in the unspecified African colonial country (Kenya?), teen Paula (Cheryl Miller) and hero veterinarian dad “Marsh” Tracy (Marshall Thompson) manage the beasts, in Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion, 1965.

Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Just Another Bomb Jonathan Hale resembles Vannevar Bush, whom he plays, consulting FDR (Godfrey Tearle) about the need for atomic research, whose call across the pond causes fictional Brits Chisolm (Richard Haydn) and Wyatt (Hurd Hatfield) to proceed to Chicago, in The Beginning Or The End, 1947.

And Then There Were None (1945) -- (Movie Clip) The Place For Nursery Rhymes Director Rene Clair is still cycling through Agatha Christie's ten island guests, Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, Mischa Auer on the piano, Richard Haydn playing the record, when the gimmick is revealed, to C. Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson, June Duprez, Louis Hayward, Roland Young and Queenie Leonard, early in And Then There Were None, 1945.

And Then There Were None (1945) -- (Movie Clip) What A Quiet Place Director Rene Clair wastes not a word introducing Agatha Christie's characters, Louis Hayward, June Duprez, Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, C. Aubrey Smith, Roland Young, Judith Anderson, Mischa Auer and Harry Thurston joining Queenie Leonard and Richard Haydn on the island, opening And Then There Were None, 1945.

Young Frankenstein (1974) -- (Movie Clip) I Am A Scientist! Having established disregard for his grandfather's work and his new pronunciation, professor Victor Frankenstein (Gene Wilder, the co-screenwriter with director Mel Brooks), deals with subject Hilltop (Liam Dunn) and a pesky student (Danny Goldman), early in Young Frankenstein, 1974.

And Then There Were None (1945) -- (Movie Clip) She Doesn't Look Good One of their number dead already, Barry Fitzgerald, Judith Anderson, June Duprez, C. Aubrey Smith, Louis Hayward, Roland Young and Walter Huston learn from Richard Haydn that their absent host isn't kidding, in Rene Clair's And Then There Were None, 1945.

Emperor Waltz, The -- (Movie Clip) Paw Of Sheherezade Countess Johanna (Joan Fontaine) and her father (Roland Culver) are relieved to discover the emperor (Richard Haydn) is talking about mating dogs, American phonograph salesman Virgil (Bing Crosby) waiting outside, in Billy Wilder's The Emperor Waltz, 1948.

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