Richard Haydn | |
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Born | George Richard Haydon March 10, 1905 Camberwell, London, England |
Died | April 25, 1985 Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. | (aged 80)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1938–1985 |
Richard Haydn (born George Richard Haydon, 10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985) was a British-American comedy actor. Some of his better known performances include his roles as Professor Oddley in Ball of Fire (1941), Roger in No Time for Love (1943), Thomas Rogers in And Then There Were None (1945), Emperor Franz Joseph in The Emperor Waltz (1948), the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1951), Baron Popoff in The Merry Widow (1952), William Brown in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music (1965).[1]