| birth_place = [[Pietermaritzburg]], [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]] ...ptember 1925 aged 76</ref>), known as '''Stratford Johns''', was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as

| birth_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], South Africa | medium = Stage, television, film

Jeffries was born in [[Forest Hill, London|Forest Hill]], [[south London]].<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=102888|title=Jeffries, Lionel Char ...9.<ref name="Telegraph"/>) He also served as a captain in the [[Royal West African Frontier Force]].<ref name="Telegraph"/>

...il 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor. He is most known for his stage acting and his portrayal of [[Humphrey Appleby|Sir Humphrey Appleby]], the ...2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ucs-FWpTjp8C ''Nigel Hawthorne on Stage''], Univ. of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield {{ISBN|978-1-90280-629-7}}</ref

| birth_place = [[w:Cape Town|Cape Town]], [[w:Cape Province|Cape Province]], South Africa | occupation = {{hlist|Actor (radio, stage, television and film)|comedian|vaudevillian}}

...collecting]]. The first stamp he collected was the [[Siege of Ladysmith]], South Africa.<ref name="TelgObit"/><ref name="IndpObit"/> ...89c29-dbce-4e32-83b0-d64ed4dffdf4/|title='The Wild Geese': Betrayal of the African Mercenaries|first=Gary|last=Arnold|date=14 November 1978|newspaper=The Wash

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...screen." In his autobiography, ''Responsible Gentleman'', Morley said his stage career started with managements valuing his appearance for playing "substan ...r=1979 }}</ref> His mother came from a German family that had emigrated to South Africa. Morley attended [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]

...|English]] in an accent he called "London-Welsh" after the family moved to south London when he was four.<ref name="aberdeen">{{cite journal |last1=Samuel | Bennett debuted on stage in the role of Ophelia in a [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] production

...), of 217 Cromwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname w Hawtrey made his first appearance on the stage in [[Boscombe]], a suburb of [[Bournemouth]], as early as 1925. At the age

...ir elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and [[Theatrical producer|stage producer]] as [[Peter Cotes]]; he was the original director of ''[[The Mous ...ne|title=An Autobiography of British Cinema: As Told by the Filmmakers and Actors who Made it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2WdZAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|pu

...'''John'''; 18 February 1899{{spaced ndash}}6 September 1992) was a Welsh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British films dur ...rt, where he graduated in 1924 with a gold medal.<ref name="Benedick"/> On stage and screen, he was known as "Mervyn Johns".

...ation|demobilisation]], he starred in ''Piccadilly Hayride'' on the London stage and was the star of the first comedy series on British television, ''[[How ...rtly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which raised suffi

...known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, [[Novelty song|comical songs]], usually p ...became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started

...errible noise, and everything so cold and grey." After moving to Brockley, south east London from the age of 12 in 1931, he attended Brownhill Road School ( ...ley's British Union of Fascists, who were gaining support near his home in South London.

...ned [[J. Arthur Rank]]'s "[[The Company of Youth|Charm School]]" for young actors, subsequently appearing in many of their films.<ref name=Bret/> The Charm S ...> In September she was in ''[[A Boy, a Girl and a Bike]]'' (1949) by which stage her fee was £30 a week; she says that the movie took six months to shoot.<

===Actors=== ...ying [[Promiscuity#Male promiscuity|womaniser]] who spoke with a hip urban African-American accent.