Will Hay Overview:

Actor, Will Hay, was born William Thomson Hay on Dec 6, 1888 in Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland. Hay died at the age of 60 on Apr 18, 1949 in Chelsea, London .

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William Porter: [going into danger, reassuringly] I'm behind yer.
Jeremiah Harbottle: Do you want to go in front?
William Porter: No, I can see all right from here.


William Porter: Well, I can't give you the exact number at the moment.
William Porter: [pauses to think] But in rough figures I would say quite a lot.


[William Porter is wheel-tapping a train]
Managing director's wife: You may think me a little stupid but why do they tap them?
William Porter: Well, you see madam, it's like this. If I tap the wheel with this hammer and the wheel goes clang, then I know that the wheel's there.
Managing director: But supposing that the wheel doesn't go clang?
William Porter: Well, then I know that the train's gone!


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Will Hay Facts
Buried in Artists Corner of Streatham Cemetery, South London, amongst hundreds of music hall stars.

Off stage he had a great interest in flying and was one of the first private aircraft owners in the United Kingdom.

In 1918 he joined the Fred Karno comedy troupe. Will Hay played Nosey Parker in the Karno revue Nosey Knows which toured Britain until the end of 1918. Will Hay then starred in the Karno revue Moonstruck which toured Britian from December 1918 to March 1920.Other former members of the Karno troupe include Stan Laurel and Charles Chaplin, both of whom left the company in 1913.

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