Tom Walls
Birthday: 1883-02-18 | Place of Birth: Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UKFrom Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time. In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Inspector
as Mr. Clayton
as Uncle Joshua Howard
as Nehemiah
as Christopher Child
as Net Pomeroy
as Capt. Meadows
as Tom Tanner
as Kossan Petrovitch
as Jack Drake
as Tommy Blythe
as Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
as John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
as Sir Duncan Craggs
as Fred Tutt
as Sir Hector Benbow
