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  1. Alfred Drayton. Alfred Drayton (1 November 1881 – 26 April 1949) was a British stage and film actor. [1] Drayton worked in a brewery when he was 18 but having a good deal of amateur dramatics experience decided to go on stage. His first appearance on stage was The Beloved Vagabond at Cardiff in 1908 and his London debut was at the Haymarket ...

  2. Alfred Drayton. Actor: The Squeaker. Stocky, bald and rather cold-eyed English character actor, who made a career of playing choleric, hectoring or exasperated authority figures. A former brewery worker, he first appeared in amateur dramatics and over the years built up a reputation as an incisive theatrical performer, both in stage farces and ...

    • January 1, 1
    • Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
    • January 1, 1
    • London, England, UK
  3. Alfred Drayton. Actor: The Squeaker. Stocky, bald and rather cold-eyed English character actor, who made a career of playing choleric, hectoring or exasperated authority figures. A former brewery worker, he first appeared in amateur dramatics and over the years built up a reputation as an incisive theatrical performer, both in stage farces and in dramatic roles. Drayton made his professional ...

    • November 1, 1881
    • April 26, 1949
  4. Things Happen at Night is a 1947 British supernatural ghost comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Gordon Harker, Alfred Drayton, Robertson Hare and Garry Marsh. [2] The film is based upon a stage play, The Poltergeist, by Frank Harvey. It was shot at Twickenham Studios. Despite the film's comparatively large budget it ended up ...

  5. Alfred Drayton was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Drayton began his career with a role in "It's a Boy" (1933) with Edward Everett Horton. Drayton next focused his career on film ...

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    Wilfred Prescott (Character)
    1948
    58%
    Wackford Squeers (Character)
    1947
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    Mr. Knight (Character)
    1945
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    William Oakley (Character)
    1944
  6. actor. 67 years biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age, Date of Death. «Things Happen at Night» (1948), «The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby» (1946), «They Knew Mr. Knight» (1946), «Don't Take It to Heart» (1944), «The Halfway House» (1944)...

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  8. 88 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Banana Ridge is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Walter C. Mycroft and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Isabel Jeans. [1] The film is based on a 1938 stage play of the same name by Ben Travers. It was made at Welwyn Studios. Michael Denison accompanied his wife Dulcie Gray ...