Arthur Basil Radford was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably best remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as one half of Charters and Caldicott, two cricket-obsessed Englishmen who appeared in several films from 1938 to 1949, most famously in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
Basil Radford Biography / Wiki
| Name | Basil Radford |
| Also Know | Arthur Basil Radford |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Chester, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1897-06-25 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 55 |
| Deathday | 1952-10-20 |
Basil Radford Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Chance of a Lifetime | Dickinson | 1950-04-24 | The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out…. |
| Whisky Galore! | Captain Paul Waggett | 1949-06-16 | Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, hea… |
| Crook’s Tour | Hawtrey Charters | 1940-09-03 | Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of G… |
| It’s Not Cricket | Maj. Bright | 1949-04-01 | Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. ” This is the regettab… |
| The Galloping Major | Major Arthur Hill | 1951-05-07 | A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try… |
| Quartet | Henry Garnet | 1948-10-26 | Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: “The Facts of Life,” “The Alien Corn,” “The Kite,” and “The Colonel’s Lady.”… |
| Just William | Mr. Sidway | 1940-07-20 | A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two j… |
| London Scrapbook | Himself | 1942-09-30 | Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II…. |
| Unpublished Story | Lamb | 1942-08-10 | Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings…. |
| The Winslow Boy | Desmond Curry | 1948-09-24 | In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial…. |
| Stop Press Girl | The Mechanical Type | 1949-06-02 | A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn’t know is that she has inherited a strange abili… |
| A Girl in a Million | 1946-10-28 | A man gets divorced from a nagging wife meets a girl in a million. Or is she?… | |
| Night Train to Munich | Charters | 1940-08-31 | Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England;… |
| Let’s Be Famous | Watson | 1939-03-22 | An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show…. |
| The Flying Squad | Sederman | 1940-10-12 | Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London…. |
| Spies of the Air | Bill Madison | 1939-03-30 | Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released i… |
| The Girl Who Forgot | Mr. Barradine | 1940-02-24 | A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con a… |
| Barnum Was Right | Standish | 1929-09-22 | Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there’s pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building…. |
| The Lady Vanishes | Charters | 1938-10-07 | On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befrien… |
| Millions Like Us | Charters | 1943-06-01 | Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Port… |
| Girl in the News | Doctor Threadgrove | 1940-08-28 | An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later … |
| Flying Fortress | Captain Wilkinson | 1942-12-05 | Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!… |
| Convict 99 | Deputy Governor | 1938-09-26 | A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened crimi… |
| Broken Blossoms | Mr. Reed | 1936-05-20 | A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith’s Masterpiece…. |
| Climbing High | Reggie Baird | 1938-10-31 | Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering… |
| The Way to the Stars | ‘Tiny’ Williams | 1945-06-16 | Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in… |
| She Couldn’t Say No | Lord Pilton | 1939-04-20 | A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it…. |
| A Southern Maid | Tom | 1934-03-01 | A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure…. |
| Young and Innocent | Erica’s Uncle Basil | 1937-11-01 | Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to … |
| Leave It to Smith | Sir John Moynton | 1933-09-13 | A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles…… |
| Seven Days’ Leave | Corporal | 1930-01-24 | While a Canadian soldier recovers in London, a nurse tells him that a Scottish widow believes he is her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees … |
| Dear Octopus | Kenneth | 1943-09-20 | Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothi… |
| Jump for Glory | Defending Counsel | 1937-01-01 | A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner…. |
| Dishonour Bright | Henry Crane | 1936-09-21 | A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court…. |
| Trouble Brewing | Guest at Madame Berdi’s | 1939-03-01 | Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing … |
| Foreign Affaires | Basil Mallory | 1935-11-21 | An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!… |
| Jamaica Inn | Lord George | 1939-05-11 | In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an inkeepe… |
| Passport to Pimlico | Gregg | 1949-10-26 | When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part o… |
| Dead of Night | George Parratt (Segment “The Golfing Story”) | 1945-09-09 | Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. D… |
| There Goes the Bride | Rudolph (uncredited) | 1932-10-25 | A businessman’s daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a … |
| Ha’penny Breeze | Shopkeeper (uncredited) | 1950-01-01 | A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yach… |
| The Captive Heart | Major Ossy Dalrymple | 1946-04-29 | A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of… |
| The Four Just Men | (uncredited) | 1939-06-01 | The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren’t above a bit of murder or sa… |
| The Next of Kin | Careless Talker on Train | 1942-06-15 | Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning “Be like Dad, Keep Mum”. A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi sp… |
| Helter Skelter | Maj. Bright | 1949-01-07 | A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can’t seem to stop hiccuping…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Galloping Major | Idea | 1951-05-07 | A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try… |
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