![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: November 2, 1908 in York, England, UK Death: June 26, 1965 in Bovine England Biography:British actor/writer "Reginald Beckwith" was a playwright and film critic in the years before the war. From 1941 through 1945, Beckwith was a BBC war correspondent; coincidentally, his first film as an actor was the 1940 flag-waver "Freedom Radio". His best known play was the serio-comedy "Boys in Brown", concerning a British borstal (boys' reformatory) and its kindhearted headmaster; apparently Beckwith had written the latter role with himself in mind, though it would be played by "Jack Warner" in the film version. From the late 1940s onward, "Reginald Beckwith" was a full-time character actor, playing variations on the fussy, nervous upper-class and executive types so popular in British films of the period. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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