Sydney Howard(1885-1946)

Actor

Born in the Yeadon district of Leeds the concert party comedian (Once descried as a 'slow witted droll) made the transition from the old wooden Peeps (the Peoples Hall on the football field at Yeadon to the world of sound film., With his fluttering fingers and catch phrase 'What's to do' and once described as ;a slow witted droll took the Football Field tradition into films being cast as the rattle waving supporter in 'Up For the Cup(1933). He was a big hit as the tipsy photographer in the film version of J B Priestley's When "We Are Married (21942)

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Tilly of Bloomsbury

Samuel Stillbottle

1931

Tilly of Bloomsbury

Samuel Stillbottle

1940

Shipyard Sally

6.5

Major Fitzgerald

1939

When We Are Married

7.6

Henry Ormonroyd

1943

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Actor

Flight from Folly
- Dr. Wylie
- 1945
When We Are Married
7.6
- Henry Ormonroyd
- 1943
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
5.8
Short
- Mr. Proudfoot
- 1941
Once a Crook
6.8
- Hallelujah Harry
- 1941
Tilly of Bloomsbury
- Samuel Stillbottle
- 1940
Shipyard Sally
6.5
- Major Fitzgerald
- 1939
What a Man!
- Samuel Pennyfeather
- 1939
Oh! Letty
TV Movie
- Mr. Simmons
- 1938
Splinters in the Air
- George Metcalfe
- Sydney Metcalfe
- 1937
Chick
- Chick Beane
- 1936
Fame
5.5
- Oswald Bertwhistle
- 1936
The Hope of His Side
- Alf Scodger
- 1935
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
6.3
- Dan Campbell
- 1934
Girls Please!
- Trampleasure
- 1934
It's a Cop
- PC Robert Spry
- 1934

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Height
- 1.78 m
Born
- August 7, 1885
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
- June 12, 1946
- London, England, UK(heart attack)
Spouse
- Dora Elizabeth Mills WhiteApril 17, 1911 - ?
Other works
He acted in Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood's play, "Night of the Garter," at the Strand Theatre in London, England with Angela Baddeley, Connie Ediss, Austin Melford, Jane Welsh, and Marjorie Brooks in the cast.
Publicity listings
- 4 Articles

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Trivia
Chubby, balding British comic actor, on stage from 1912 and in films from 1930. A major star of the West End stage in the 20's and 30's, hardly remembered now.