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{{Short description|English actor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Basil Radford
| image = File:Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne.jpg
| caption = Basil Radford (left) and [[Naunton Wayne]]
| birth_name = Arthur Basil Radford
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|6|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Chester]], [[England]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1952|10|20|1897|6|25|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Westminster]], [[London]], England
| othername =
| years_active = 1929–1952
| spouse = {{Marriage|Shirley Deuchars|1926}}
| children = 1
| occupation = Actor
}}

'''Arthur Basil Radford'''<ref name="dnb">Adam Greaves, "Radford, (Arthur) Basil (1897–1952)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, May 2014 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/99636 available online]. Retrieved 3 August 2020.</ref> (25 June 1897{{spaced ndash}}20 October 1952) was an [[English people|English]] character actor who featured in many [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British films]] of the 1930s and 1940s.

He trained at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and made his first stage appearance in July 1924. He is probably best remembered for his appearances alongside [[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.

==Early life==
Radford was born in [[Chester]], [[England]], on 25 June 1897.<ref name="dnb"/>

==First World War==
He was a commissioned officer in the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[South Staffordshire Regiment]] in the [[First World War]], in 1918 transferring into the [[Royal Air Force]], ending the war as a [[Subaltern (military)|subaltern]] when he was demobilised in 1920.<ref>WO/372/16/126396, W.W.1 Medal Index Card for Radford, The National Archive, Kew.</ref> Radford had a crescent-shaped scar on his right cheek from a wound sustained during his time in the trenches. Depending on the lighting and camera angle it varied from barely perceptible to prominent.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Guardian |location= London |date=29 December 2007 |title=Mustard and Cress |first=Matthew |last=Sweet |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/dec/29/film}}</ref>

==Film career==
Radford first appeared with Naunton Wayne as their characters [[Charters and Caldicott]] in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s [[1938 in film|1938]] thriller ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]''. They were popular enough to reprise their roles in ''[[Night Train to Munich]]'', which was again scripted by [[Frank Launder]] and [[Sidney Gilliat]].

They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including ''[[Crook's Tour]]'' (1941), ''[[The Next of Kin]]'' (1942), ''[[Millions Like Us]]'' (1943), ''[[Dead of Night]]'' (1945), ''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]'' (1948), ''[[It's Not Cricket (1949 film)|It's Not Cricket]]'' (1949), ''[[Stop Press Girl]]'' (1949), and ''[[Passport to Pimlico]]'' (1949).

Apart from his long-running partnership with Naunton Wayne, Radford made many other memorable film appearances in character roles. His other films included ''[[Young and Innocent]]'' (also for [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]]) (1937), ''[[The Way to the Stars]]'' (1945), ''[[The Captive Heart]]'' (1946), ''[[The Winslow Boy (1948 film)|The Winslow Boy]]'' (1948) and ''[[Whisky Galore! (1949 film)|Whisky Galore!]]'' (1949).

==Personal life==
In 1926, he married Shirley Deuchars. They had one son.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/The_Times_(21/Oct/1952)_-_Obituary:_Basil_Radford |title=Obituary: Basil Radford - The Times (21 October 1952) |work=The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki |year=2015 |accessdate=19 February 2015}}</ref>

==Death==
Radford's health began seriously to fail in the summer of 1951, forcing him to take a long break from acting. He died at St George's Hospital, Westminster, London, on 20 October 1952, from liver failure due to cirrhosis of the liver.<ref name="dnb"/>

==Complete filmography==
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* ''[[Barnum Was Right]]'' (1929) as Standish
*''[[Woman to Woman (1929 film)|Woman to Woman]]'' (1929) as Officer in Street (uncredited)
*''[[Seven Days' Leave (1930 film)|Seven Days Leave]]'' (1930) as Corporal
*''[[There Goes the Bride (1932 film)|There Goes the Bride]]'' (1932) as Rudolph (uncredited)
*''[[Leave It to Smith]]'' (1933) as Sir John Moynton
*''[[A Southern Maid (film)|A Southern Maid]]'' (1934) as Tom
*''[[Foreign Affaires]]'' (1935) as Basil Mallory
*''[[Broken Blossoms (1936 film)|Broken Blossoms]]'' (1936) as Mr. Reed
*''[[Dishonour Bright]]'' (1936) as Henry Crane
*''[[Jump for Glory]]'' (1937) as Defending Counsel
*''[[Young and Innocent]]'' (1937) as Erica's Uncle
*''[[Captain's Orders]]'' (1937) as Murdoch
*''[[Convict 99]]'' (1938) as Deputy Governor
*''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938) as Charters
*''[[Climbing High]]'' (1938) as Reggie
*''The Royal Family of Broadway'' (1939) as Gilbert Marshall (TV Movie)
*''[[Let's Be Famous]]'' (1939) as Watson
*''[[Trouble Brewing (1939 film)|Trouble Brewing]]'' (1939) as Guest at Madame Berdi's (uncredited)
*''Shall We Join the Ladies?'' (1939) as Mr. Preen (TV Movie)
*''[[Jamaica Inn (film)|Jamaica Inn]]'' (1939) as Lord George
*''[[Secret Journey (1939 film)|Secret Journey]]'' (1939) as Reggie
*''[[The Four Just Men (1939 film)|The Four Just Men]]'' (1939) (uncredited)
*''[[The Girl Who Forgot]]'' (1940) as Mr. Barradine
*''[[She Couldn't Say No (1939 film)|She Couldn't Say No]]'' (1940) as Lord Pilton
*''[[Spies of the Air]]'' (1940) as Bill Madison
*''[[Just William (film)|Just William]]'' (1940) as Mr. Sidway
*''[[Girl in the News]]'' (1940) as Dr. Threadgrove
*''[[Night Train to Munich]]'' (1940) as Charters
*''[[The Flying Squad (1940 film)|The Flying Squad]]'' (1940) as Sederman
*''[[Room for Two (film)|Room for Two]]'' (1940) as Robert Spencer
*''[[Crook's Tour]]'' (1941) as Charters
* Save Rubber (1942) (government Information film short)
*''[[Flying Fortress (film)|Flying Fortress]]'' (1942) as Captain Wilkinson
*''[[The Next of Kin]]'' (1942, cameo, with Naunton Wayne) as Careless talker on train (last scene)
*''[[Unpublished Story]]'' (1942) as Lamb
*''[[London Scrapbook]]'' (1942) as Himself
*''[[Dear Octopus (film)|Dear Octopus]]'' (1943) as Kenneth
*''[[Millions Like Us]]'' (1943) as Charters
*''[[Twilight Hour]]'' (1945) as Lord Chetwood
*''[[The Way to the Stars]]'' (1945) as Tiny Williams
*''[[Dead of Night]]'' (1945) as George Parratt
*''[[The Captive Heart]]'' (1946) as Major Ossy Dalrymple
*''[[A Girl in a Million]]'' (1946) as Prendergast
*''[[The Winslow Boy (1948 film)|The Winslow Boy]]'' (1948) as Desmond Curry
*''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]'' (1948) as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
*''[[It's Not Cricket (1949 film)|It's Not Cricket]]'' (1949) as Major Bright
*''[[Passport to Pimlico]]'' (1949) as Gregg
*''[[Stop Press Girl]]'' (1949) as The Mechanical Type
*''[[Whisky Galore! (1949 film)|Whisky Galore!]]'' (1949) as Captain Paul Waggett
*''[[Helter Skelter (1949 film)|Helter Skelter]]'' (1949) as Maj. Bright (uncredited)
*''[[Chance of a Lifetime (1950 film)|Chance of a Lifetime]]'' (1950) as Dickinson
*''[[Ha'penny Breeze]]'' (1950) as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
*''[[The Galloping Major (film)|The Galloping Major]]'' (1951) as Major Arthur Hill (also based on a story written by Radford)
*''[[White Corridors]]'' (1951) as Retired Civil Servant (final film role)
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Charters and Caldicott films

==Selected stage appearances==
* ''[[Night Must Fall]]'' by [[Emlyn Williams]] (1935)
* ''[[Someone at the Door (play)|Someone at the Door]]'' by [[Campbell Christie]] (1935)
* ''[[Blondie White]]'' by [[Bernard Merivale]] and [[Jeffrey Dell]] (1937)
* ''[[The Innocent Party]]'' by [[H.M. Harwood]] (1938)
* ''[[Warn That Man!]]'' by [[Vernon Sylvaine]] (1941)
* ''[[The Blind Goddess (play)|The Blind Goddess]]'' by [[Patrick Hastings]] (1947)
* ''[[A Penny for a Song]]'' by [[John Whiting]] (1951)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0705509}}

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