Man From UNCLE Episode 18 Guest Star: Richard Haydn



George Richard Haydn (10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985), known as Richard Haydn, and born as George Richard Haydon, was an English comic actor in radio, films and television. Some of his better known performances include Ball of Fire (1941) as Professor Oddley, No Time for Love (1943) as Roger, And Then There Were None (1945) as Thomas Rogers, The Emperor Waltz (1948), Alice in Wonderland(1951) as the Caterpillar, as Baron Popoff in The Merry Widow (1952), as William Brown in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and The Sound of Music (1965) as Max Detweiler.

Haydn was born on 10 March 1905 in London. After working as a music hall entertainer and overseer of a Jamaican banana plantation, he joined a touring British theatre troupe, and then moved into television and film.

In the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks said that Haydn eschewed the Hollywood lifestyle, and that he used gardening and horticulture as a means of escape. Following a heart attack, Haydn died on 25 April 1985 in Los Angeles, California.

He is particularly notable for his performance as the voice of the Caterpillar in the 1951 Disney animated adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, and for his small role of Herr Falkstein in the 1974 Mel Brooks classic comedy Young Frankenstein. Haydn was also memorable as the manservant Rogers in the 1945 adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. He is also well remembered for his role as William Brown in Mutiny on the Bounty.Perhaps his most acclaimed role, however, was in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1965 film musical The Sound of Music, in which he played the Von Trapps' family friend Max Detweiler.

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