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Alexander Archdale (26 November 190513 May 1986) was an English actor who had a very long career in both the theatre and in film, stretching from the 1930s to the 1980s. He spent the latter part of his life and career in Australia. ==Biography== He was born Alexander Mervyn Archdale in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. His younger sister was the educationalist Betty Archdale. In 1934 he was in a Broadway production of ''The Wind and the Rain'' at the Ritz Theatre, New York. In 1937 he acted in Jeffrey Dell's play ''Night Alone'' at the Embassy Theatre in London, England 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. He appeared in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, for instance ''Lucky Days'' and ''House of Darkness'' (with a young and as yet undiscovered Laurence Harvey) before going on to appear in TV series such as ''Ivanhoe'', ''No Hiding Place'' and ''Emergency Ward 10''. Later in his career he was a regular on Australian television performing in ''Hunter'', ''Skippy'' and ''Division 4''. 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. 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. His last credited appearance was in ''Runaway Island'' which was set in 1830s Sydney. He died on 13 May 1986 at the age of 80 in Sydney.〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Archdale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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