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Character actor, Naunton Wayne, was born Henry Wayne Davies on Jun 22, in Llanwonno, Wales....
Charters and Caldicott
Fictional characters
For the television series, see Charters and Caldicott (TV series).
Fictional character
Charters and Caldicott started out as two supporting characters in the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes.
The pair of cricket-obsessed characters were played by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford. The characters were created by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat.
A comic entertainer in Wales for the first eight years of his career, he arrived in London in and was utilized as an emcee and quipster in a number of West.
The duo became very popular and were used as recurring characters in subsequent films and in BBC Radio productions. Charters and Caldicott have also been played by other actors, and they eventually had their own BBC television series.
Radford and Wayne's appearances
In their first appearance, in the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, Charters and Caldicott are single minded cricket enthusiasts, whose only initial concern is to get back to England to see the last days of a Test match.
They proved so popular with audiences that they returned in the Gilliat-and-Lau