Born August 21, 1908· Forest Gate, London, England, UK
† Died August 31, 1995
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Emerging from a journalistic background in Forest Gate, Essex, he left school at fourteen, became a newspaper assistant editor by seventeen, and earned a BA through night classes while nurturing a passion for amateur theatre. After an eighteen-month tour beginning in 1932, he entered film with a supporting part in the musical Head Over Heels (1937) and quickly progressed to leading roles in wartim…
