Richard Haydn Overview:

Character actor, Richard Haydn, was born George Richard Haydon on Mar 10, 1905 in Camberwell, London. Haydn died at the age of 80 on Apr 25, 1985 in Los Angeles, CA .

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Tall, angular, aloof-looking English character actor who cornered the market in prissy professors in the Hollywood of the forties. A former dancer and revue artist, he became an inveterate scene-stealer in comic cameos, and also scored in the occasional serious role, such as his schoolmaster in The Green Years. Also a writer (as Edwin Carp) and director.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Richard Haydn Quotes:

Max: How many have I had?
Maid: Two.
Max: Make it an uneven three.


Caterpillar: Recite.
Alice: Oh. Yes sir. How doth the little bumblebee improve each...
Caterpillar: Stop. That is not spoken correctically. It goes: How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail. And pour the waters of the Nile, on every golden scale. How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws. And welcomes little fishes in, with gently smiling jaws.
Alice: Well, I must say, I've never heard it that way before.
Caterpillar: I know. I have improoooved it.


Alfred North: For a critic that first step is the first printed joke. It gets a laugh and a whole new world opens up. He makes another joke, and another. And then one day along comes a joke that shouldn't be made because the show he's reviewing is a good show. But, as it so happens, it's a good joke. And you know what? The joke wins.


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Richard Haydn Fact
Engaged for several months of 1943 to Maria Riva, daughter of Marlene Dietrich.

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