Naunton Wayne, well-known British actor who plays the role of Leslie, one of the club friends of of Henry Garnet (Basil Radford) in ‘The Facts of Life’, one of the four Somerset Maugham stories comprising ‘Quartet’, Sydney Box’s new production for Gainsborough Pictures

Naunton Wayne

(1901–70)

British actor (died aged 69) | The Lady Vanishes (1938), Passport to Pimlico (1949), Millions Like Us (1943)

Mild-mannered British light comedy actor, on stage from 1920, films from 1931; became well known with Basil Radford in many films as Englishmen abroad

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Going Gay (1933)
Jim
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Caldicott
A Girl Must Live (1939)
Hugo Smythe
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Caldicott
Crook’s Tour (1940)
Caldicott
The Next of Kin (1942)
Careless talker on train
Millions Like Us (1943)
Caldicott
A Girl in a Million (1945)
Fotheringham
Dead of Night (1945)
Larry Potter
Quartet (1948)
Leslie
It’s Not Cricket (1949)
Capt Early
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Straker
Stop Press Girl (1949)
The Mechanical Type
Obsession (1949)
Supt Finsbury
Highly Dangerous (1950)
Mr Hedgerley
Trio (1950)
Mr Ramsey
Double Confession (1950)
Inspector Tenby
Circle of Danger (1951)
Reggie Sinclair
The Happy Family (1952)
Mr. Filch
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Eustace Mills
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Blakeworth
Operation Bullshine (1959)
Major Pym
Double Bunk (1961)
1st Thames Conservancy Officer
Nothing Barred (1961)
Lord Whitebait
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