Basil Radford
Actor
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
Dead of Night
as George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story") 1945
Young and Innocent
as Erica's Uncle Basil 1937
Jamaica Inn
as Lord George 1939
Whisky Galore!
as Captain Paul Waggett 1949
Passport to Pimlico
as Gregg 1949
Night Train to Munich
as Charters 1940
The Winslow Boy
as Desmond Curry 1948
The Way to the Stars
as 'Tiny' Williams 1945
The Captive Heart
as Major Ossy Dalrymple 1946
Quartet
as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life") 1948
Millions Like Us
as Charters 1943
Crook's Tour
as Hawtrey Charters 1940
Convict 99
as Deputy Governor 1938
Chance of a Lifetime
as Dickinson 1950
The Galloping Major
as Major Arthur Hill 1951
The Next of Kin
as Careless Talker on Train 1942