Richard Haydn
Richard Haydn ( born March 10, 1905 in London, † April 25, 1985 in Pacific Palisades ) was a British actor and film director.
Life and work
Haydn worked for a time on a banana plantation in Jamaica and adorned this side as a makeup -Man, the actors of the film Drums in the Night, which was being filmed in Jamaica. Back in London, he began his theater career as a ticket seller and entered the 1930s at various stages revue. Here he gained some popularity since 1936 in his role of Edwin Carp, a nasal, pinched and preferably fish mimicking idiot.
1939 Haydn came to the United States, where he appeared on Broadway. Since 1939, the film, he was here regularly set to Carp similar, stilted and patriarchal types. In Billy Wilder's comedy I Kiss Your Hand, Madame, he embodied Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Between 1948 and 1950 Haydn attempted three times as a film director. In 1966 he retired from acting and appeared only once when Mr. Falkenstein in the horror comedy Young Frankenstein front of the camera.