Ralph Clifford Lynn (8 March 1882 – 8 August 1962) was an English actor who had a 60-year career, and is best remembered for playing comedy parts in the Aldwych farces first on stage and then in film.
Lynn became an actor at the age of 18 and very soon began to be cast in knut or "silly ass" roles. He played such parts as a supporting actor for more than two decades until 1922, when he was cast in the lead of a new West End farce, Tons of Money, in which he achieved immediate stardom. After the success of this play, its co-producer, the actor-manager Tom Walls, leased the Aldwych Theatre in London, where for the next ten years he and Lynn co-starred in a series of successful farces, most of which were written for them by Ben Travers.
Many of the Aldwych farces were made into films starring Lynn and Walls, and the two were ranked among the most popular British film actors of the 1930s. He continued his stage career during and after the Second World War, scoring another hit in London and on tour with Is your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1944). He continued to play in both new works by Travers and others, and in revivals of his earlier successes, and made his last London appearance in 1958.
Ralph Clifford Lynn (8 March 1882 – 8 August 1962) was an English actor who had a 60-year career, and is best remembered for playing comedy parts in the...
alongside Dora Bryan and Robin Bailey.[citation needed] Lynn was a grand niece of the comedy actor RalphLynn. She married Anthony Newley in August 1956. They...
child he had frequently been taken to the West End of London to watch RalphLynn and Tom Walls perform in the series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre....
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She starred with Peter Coke in the 1938 thriller Death on the Table and RalphLynn at Aldwych in the 1940 comedy Nap Hand. She was a semi-regular on the...
that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star RalphLynn were among the most popular British actors of their time. In addition...
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the farce The Party Spirit in the West End alongside Robertson Hare and RalphLynn. His first credited screen role was in the film Radio Cab Murder (1954)...
army, Hare got his big break. He was cast in a long-running farce with RalphLynn and Tom Walls. His meek and put-upon character was repeated in various...
Ben Travers. Members of the regular company for these farces included RalphLynn, Tom Walls, Ethel Coleridge, Gordon James, Mary Brough, Winifred Shotter...
farces, nearly all written by Ben Travers, starring Walls and his co-star RalphLynn, who specialised in playing "silly ass" characters. Walls assembled a...
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is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring RalphLynn, Winifred Shotter and Kenneth Kove. The screenplay was written by Ben...
plays were presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls and starred Walls and RalphLynn, supported by a regular company that included Robertson Hare, Mary Brough...
of the Ben Travers' Aldwych farce Dirty Work with Robertson Hare and RalphLynn and appeared in Herbert Wilcox's Peg of Old Drury with Anna Neagle before...
and Busman's Honeymoon) his looks are compared to those of the actor RalphLynn. Wimsey also possesses considerable intelligence and athletic ability...
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