Alexander Archdale

Alexander Archdale
Alexander Archdale in 1960's Village of the Damned
Born	Alexander Mervvn Archdale 26 November 1905 Jhansi, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died	13 May 1986 (aged 80) Sydney, Australia
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Actor, manager, theatre producer
Family	Betty Archdale (sister)

Alexander Mervyn Archdale (26 November 1905 – 13 May 1986) was a British actor, manager and theatre producer.^[1] He had a very long career in both the theatre and in film, stretching from the 1930s to the 1980s.^[2] He spent the latter part of his life and career in Australia.^[3]

Biography

He was born Alexander Mervyn Archdale in Jhansi, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India, to British parents Theodore Montgomery Archdale and Helen Alexandra Russell^[3] His younger sister was the educationalist and cricketer Betty Archdale.^[4]

In 1934 he was in a Broadway production of The Wind and the Rain at the Ritz Theatre, New York City.^[5]

In 1937 he acted in Jeffrey Dell's play Night Alone at the Embassy Theatre in London, with Richard Bird, Julian Somers, and Anna Konstam in the cast. In the same year he acted in J. B. Priestley's play Time and the Conways at the Duchess Theatre in London, with Jean Forbes-Robertson, Raymond Huntley, Barbara Everest, Mervyn Johns, Helen Horsey, Eileen Erskine, Wilfred Babbage, Molly Rankin, Rosemary Scott, and Irene Hentschel in the cast.^[6]

He appeared in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, for instance Lucky Days and House of Darkness (with a young Laurence Harvey) before going on to appear in TV series such as Ivanhoe, No Hiding Place and Emergency Ward 10.^[7]

Later in his career he was a regular on Australian television performing in Hunter, Skippy and Division 4.^[8]^[9]

He was Sir Charles in Newsfront, a 1978 film directed by Phillip Noyce, which tells the story of rival companies making newsreels in the pre-television Australia of the late 1940s and 1950s.^[10]

He played the part of retired Professor B. C. Simmonds in the 1981 Australian thriller The Killing of Angel Street, which won an Honourable Mention at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1982.^[11]^[12]

His last credited appearance was in Runaway Island, which was set in 1830s Sydney.^{[citation needed]}

He died on 13 May 1986 at the age of 80 in Sydney.^[3]

Selected filmography

Film

Lucky Days (1935) as Alec
House of Darkness (1948) as John
Floodtide (1949) as 2nd Director
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
Three in One (1957) as Firbank
The Scapegoat (1959) as Gamekeeper
The Headless Ghost (1959) as Randolph
Marriage of Convenience (1960) as Governor
Village of the Damned (1960)
Invasion Quartet (1961) as Brigadier, War Office
I Have Been Here Before (TV movie, 1964) as Walter Ormond
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
The Night the Prowler (1978)
Newsfront (1978) as Sir Charles
The Killing of Angel Street (1981) as B.C. Simmonds
Runaway Island (TV movie, 1982)

Television

The Twelve Pound Look (1956)^[13]
Redheap (1972, TV series)
Hunter as regular cast
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo as regular cast
Division 4 as regular cast
Ivanhoe (1970)
No Hiding Place
Emergency Ward 10

Theatre

The Mews (1932) at Arts Theatre Club
The Wind and the Rain (1934) at Ritz Theatre, New York
Night Alone (1937) at Embassy Theatre, London
Time and the Conways (1937) at Duchess Theatre, London
Charley's Aunt (1953) (also director) at St James' Hall with Mercury Theatre
Night on Bald Mountain (1964) as Professor Hugo Swire
No Man's Land (1977) with The Actors' Company

References

^ "Alexander Archdale". Archived from the original on 8 December 2017.
^ "Alexander Archdale – Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c McPherson, Ailsa. Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
^ "Betty Archdale". 16 February 2000 – via www.theguardian.com.
^ League, The Broadway. "The Wind and the Rain – Broadway Play – Original – IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
^ "Production of Time and the Conways – Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
^ "Alexander Archdale". www.aveleyman.com.
^ "Australian Television: Skippy: episode guide: series 1". www.australiantelevision.net.
^ TV.com. "Alexander Archdale". TV.com.
^ "Newsfront (1978)". Archived from the original on 28 April 2020.
^ "The Killing of Angel Street (1981)". Archived from the original on 5 May 2019.
^ "The Killing of Angel Street (1981) – Donald Crombie – Awards – AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ Vagg, Stephen (30 January 2022). "Forgotten Australian Television Plays: The Twelve Pound Look". Filmink. Retrieved 13 August 2024.

External sources

Alexander Archdale at the Internet Movie Database
Alexander Archdale at the Internet Broadway Database
Photos of Alexander Archdale at Aveleyman
A Who's who of Australian and New Zealand Film Actors: The Sound Era h
Theatre Australia (un)limited: Australian Theatre Since the 1950s h
The importance of Marian Street Theatre – images of Alexander Archdale http://www.savemariansttheatre.com/a-brief-history/

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