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.
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Movie Appearances
The Lady Vanishes
as Charters
1938
Young and Innocent
as Erica's Uncle Basil
1937
Jamaica Inn
as Lord George
1939
Dead of Night
as George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
1945
Night Train to Munich
as Charters
1940
A Southern Maid
as Tom
1934
Whisky Galore!
as Captain Paul Waggett
1949
Millions Like Us
as Charters
1943
Crook's Tour
as Hawtrey Charters
1940
Unpublished Story
as Lamb
1942
Convict 99
as Deputy Governor
1938
The Winslow Boy
as Desmond Curry
1948
Quartet
as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
1948
Girl in the News
as Doctor Threadgrove
1940
It's Not Cricket
as Maj. Bright
1949
The Galloping Major
as Major Arthur Hill
1951
Let's Be Famous
as Watson
1939
Stop Press Girl
as The Mechanical Type
1949
Chance of a Lifetime
as Dickinson
1950
A Girl in a Million
as Prendergast
1946