Peter Haddon

Peter Haddon (31 March 1898 – 7 September 1962) was an English actor.

Personal life

Haddon was born Peter Haddon Tildsley in Rawtenstall, Lancashire. He was the son of Alfred and Mary Tildsley; he had a brother, Vincent Harvey (born 1894), and two sisters, Edna and Mary. His father was a clergyman.

In 1925, he married Rosaline Jane Courtneidge (1903–1926), a daughter of Robert Courtneidge; her eldest sister was Cicely Courtneidge. Peter and Rosaline Tildsley had a daughter, Rosaline (1926–2011). In 1932, as a widower, he married divorcee Edith Ralston Hicks Lyon, née Huxtable. By 1945 she had remarried.

Career

He first became associated with the theatre as a member of the Footlights Dramatic Society while reading medicine at Caius College, Cambridge. His first professional appearance was at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1920, and he went on to appear at almost every London theatre. Among his stage credits in the 1920s were Charlot's Revue (1925 and 1927, with Beatrice Lillie and Gertrude Lawrence) and Good Morning, Bill (1928), in which his understudy was William Hartnell. His 1930s credits included Paulette, Tell Her the Truth (with Bobby Howes and Alfred Drayton), That's a Pretty Thing, Who's Who, Anything Goes (Palace Theatre, London, 1935), Love and Let Love (with Claire Luce), No Sleep for the Wicked and Under Your Hat (with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge).

He entered films in the mid-1920s, wrote several plays,

Filmography The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1952) – Sir George Orreyed Moulin Rouge (1952) (uncredited) Helter Skelter (1949) – Major Basil Beagle Over the Moon (1939) – Lord Petcliffe Good Morning, Bill (1939) (TV) – Bill Kate Plus Ten (1938) – Boltover The House of the Spaniard (1936) – David Grey The Beloved Vagabond (1936) – Major Walters Mother, Don't Rush Me (1936) – Adolphe Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936/I) – Richard Trelawny The Secret of Stamboul (1936) – Peter No Monkey Business (1935) – Arthur The Silent Passenger (1935) – Lord Peter Wimsey Who's Your Father (1935) – Frank Steadley Death at Broadcasting House (1934) – Guy Bannister Alf's Button (1930) – Lieutenant Allen Greek Street (1930) – Businessman Oxford Bags (1926) – The Golfer The Clicking of Cuthbert (1924) – Cuthbert Lizzie's Last Lap (1924) – Fibs-Gerald

Early TV

Good Morning, Bill!(4 jun 1939) A comedy by P. G. Wodehouse Author P. G. Wodehouse Producer Royston Morley Bill Peter Haddon Lord Tidmouth Michael Shipley Sir Hugo Drake Brefni O'Rorke