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Henry James Hayter (23 April 1907 – 27 March 1983) was a
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actor of television and film. He is best remembered for his roles as
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in the film ''
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'' (1952) and as
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in the film ''
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'' (1952), the latter earning him a BAFTA Award for Best British Actor nomination.


Early life

He was born in
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, India, and brought up in Scotland, attending Dollar Academy. He made his West End debut in the 1936 comedy ''
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'' at
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. His best remembered film roles include
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in the 1952 film ''
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'' (he reprised the same role in the 1967 film ''
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'') and
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in ''
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'' of the same year. His rotund appearance and fruity voice made him a natural choice for such roles.


Acting career

A pupil of
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, he became a graduate of the
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. His film career began in 1936 in ''Sensation'', but was interrupted by
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, during which he served in the
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. His 1946 television series ''
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, is recognised as the first real example of the half-hour
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format in the history of British television. In the film ''
Oliver! ''Oliver!'' is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before op ...
'', he played Mr Jessop, the bookshop owner. He appeared in scenes when Dodger steals a gentleman's wallet outside the bookshop and also when Oliver is in court charged with the robbery. Hayter was the Ministry doorman in the film ''
Passport to Pimlico ''Passport to Pimlico'' is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starring Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius and written by T. E. B. Clarke. The story concerns the unea ...
'' (1949). His later career included roles in TV series such as ''
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'' (1967) and ''
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''. He also appeared as Dickson Mccunn in bbc serial "Huntingtower", the book by John Buchan. Hayter also appeared in the long-running BBC department store sitcom ''
Are You Being Served? ''Are You Being Served?'' is a British sitcom created and written by executive producer David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes) and Jeremy Lloyd, with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC. Set in London ...
'' as senior salesperson Mr Tebbs in 1978. He was also the original narrator of the UK television advertisements for
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cakes. In fact, these adverts led to his departure from ''Are You Being Served?''; the cake company paid him a significant bonus to withdraw from the series, as they felt his reputation lent an air of dignity to their advertisements. "Who can blame an actor in his seventies for accepting money for staying at home? I, now 78, would jump at the chance!” wrote
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(Captain Peacock) in a letter to one of Hayter's eight children in 1999. He died in Spain in 1983, aged 75.


Partial filmography

* ''
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'' (1936) – Jock * ''
Aren't Men Beasts! ''Aren't Men Beasts!'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Billy Milton. Premise A number of people try to prevent a man getting married. Cast * Robertson Hare as Herbert Holly ...
'' (1937) – Minor Role (uncredited) * ''
Big Fella ''Big Fella'' is a 1937 British musical drama film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch and Roy Emerton. It is loosely based on the novel ''Banjo'' by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay. Plot ''Big Fella'' ...
'' (1937) – Chuck * '' Marigold'' (1938) – Peter Cloag * ''
Murder in Soho ''Murder in Soho'' is a 1939 British crime film directed by Norman Lee and starring Jack La Rue, Sandra Storme, Googie Withers and Bernard Lee. It concerns a murder in the Central London district of Soho. It was released in the U.S. as ''Murder ...
'' (1939) – Nick Green * '' Come On George!'' (1939) – Barker * ''
Band Waggon ''Band Waggon'' was a comedy radio show broadcast by the BBC from 1938 to 1940. The first series featured Arthur Askey and Richard "Stinker" Murdoch. In the second series, Askey and Murdoch were joined by Syd Walker, and the third series added ...
'' (1940) – Minor Role (uncredited) * ''
Sailors Three ''Sailors Three'' (released in the US as ''Three Cockeyed Sailors'') is a 1940 British war comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Carla Lehmann. This was cockney music hall comedian Trinder's debut ...
'' (1940) – Hans * ''
The Laughing Lady ''The Laughing Lady'' is a 1946 British Technicolor musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth and Francis L. Sullivan. Based on a play by Ingram D'Abbes, its plot follows a young aristocrat who mak ...
'' (1946) – Ostler, Turk's Head * ''
School for Secrets ''School for Secrets'' (also known as ''Secret Flight'') is a 1946 British black-and-white film written and directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Ralph Richardson. In leading supporting roles were David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Finlay Currie ...
'' (1946) – Warrant Officer * ''
Nicholas Nickleby ''Nicholas Nickleby'' or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (or also ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the ...
'' (1947) – Ned Cheeryble / Charles Cheeryble * '' Captain Boycott'' (1947) – Music Hall Comic (uncredited) * '' The October Man'' (1947) – Garage Man * ''
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square ''The Ghosts of Berkeley Square'' is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the 1944 novel '' No Nightingales'' by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired b ...
'' (1947) – Capt. Dodds (uncredited) * '' The End of the River'' (1947) – Chico * ''
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'' (1947) – Dr. White * ''
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'' (1948) – Bandmaster * ''
My Brother Jonathan ''My Brother Jonathan'' is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold French and starring Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Ronald Howard and Beatrice Campbell. It is adapted from the 1930 novel ''My Brother Jonathan'' by Francis Brett Young, lat ...
'' (1948) – Tom Morse * ''
A Song for Tomorrow ''A Song for Tomorrow'' is a 1948 second feature drama film directed by Terence Fisher in his directorial debut. It stars Evelyn Maccabe and Ralph Michael. The screenplay concerns a World War II fighter pilot who suffers amnesia. It was made at ...
'' (1948) – Nicholas Klausmann * '' The Fallen Idol'' (1948) – Perry * '' Woman Hater'' (1948) – Mr. Burrell * ''
No Room at the Inn ''No Room at the Inn'' is a 1945 play by Joan Temple that became a 1948 film directed by Daniel Birt. Both play and film are presented in flashback mode and share the same subject matter – cruelty, neglect and mental and physical abuse meted ...
'' (1948) – Councilor Trouncer * ''
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'' (1948) – Foreman of the Jury (segment "The Alien Corn") * ''
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'' (1948) – Kingsburgh * ''
Once a Jolly Swagman ''Once a Jolly Swagman'' is a 1949 British film starring Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Thora Hird and Sid James. It is centred on the sport of motorcycle speedway racing, which was at its peak of popularity at the time. It was relea ...
'' (1949) – Pa Fox * ''
Silent Dust ''Silent Dust'' is a 1949 British drama/thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Sally Gray, Stephen Murray, Derek Farr and Nigel Patrick. The title comes from lines in Thomas Gray's ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' ''Can ...
'' (1949) – Pringle * '' The Blue Lagoon'' (1949) – Doctor Murdoch * ''
All Over the Town ''All Over the Town'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Derek N. Twist and starring Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill (actress), Sarah Churchill and Cyril Cusack. It was based on the 1947 novel by R. F. Delderfield. Premise After serving ...
'' (1949) – Councillor Baines * ''
Passport to Pimlico ''Passport to Pimlico'' is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starring Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius and written by T. E. B. Clarke. The story concerns the unea ...
'' (1949) – Commissionaire * ''
For Them That Trespass ''For Them That Trespass'' is a 1949 British crime film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett and Stephen Murray (actor), Stephen Murray. It is an adaptation of the 1944 For Them That Trespass (novel), novel ...
'' (1949) – John Craigie 'Jocko' Glenn * ''
Don't Ever Leave Me ''Don't Ever Leave Me'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley. Produced by Betty Box during her stint at Gainsborough Pictures, it wa ...
'' (1949) – Man with Summons * '' Helter Skelter'' (1949) – Inn landlord (uncredited) * '' Dear Mr. Prohack'' (1949) – Carrell Quire * '' The Spider and the Fly'' (1949) – Mayor * '' Your Witness'' (1950) – Prouty, Trial Witness * ''
Morning Departure ''Morning Departure'' (released as ''Operation Disaster'' in the United StatesNight and the City ''Night and the City'' is a 1950 film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers. It is based on the Night and the City (novel), novel of the same name by Gerald Kersh. Shot on location in Londo ...
'' (1950) – Figler, King of the Beggars (uncredited) * '' Waterfront'' (1950) – Ship's captain * '' Trio'' (1950) – Albert Foreman – (segment The Verger) * ''
The Woman with No Name ''The Woman with No Name'' is a 1950 British drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Richard Burton and James Hayter. In the United States it was released as ''Her Panelled Door''. Pl ...
'' (1950) – Capt. Bradshawe * '' Flesh and Blood'' (1951) – Sir Douglas Manley * ''
Calling Bulldog Drummond ''Calling Bulldog Drummond'' is a 1951 British crime film directed by Victor Saville and featuring Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson and Bernard Lee.''Harrison's Reports'' film review; 20 October 1951, page 167. ...
'' (1950) – Bill * ''
Tom Brown's School Days ''Tom Brown's School Days'' (sometimes written ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'', also published under the titles ''Tom Brown at Rugby'', ''School Days at Rugby'', and ''Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby'') is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes. The stor ...
'' (1951) – Old Thomas * ''
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men ''The Story of Robin Hood'' is a 1952 action-adventure film produced by RKO- Walt Disney British Productions, based on the Robin Hood legend, made in Technicolor and filmed in Buckinghamshire, England. It was written by Lawrence Edward Watkin and ...
'' (1952) –
Friar Tuck Friar Tuck is one of the legendary Merry Men, the band of heroic outlaws in the folklore of Robin Hood. History The figure of the jovial friar was common in the May Games festivals of England and Scotland during the 15th through 17th centur ...
* ''
I'm a Stranger ''I'm a Stranger'' is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Brock Williams and starring Greta Gynt, James Hayter and Hector Ross. In the film, various different parties search for a missing will which leaves a fortune to a stranger from Calcutt ...
'' (1952) – Horatio Flowerdew * ''
The Crimson Pirate ''The Crimson Pirate'' is a 1952 British-American international co-production Technicolor tongue-in-cheek comedy-adventure film from Warner Bros. produced by Norman Deming and Harold Hecht, directed by Robert Siodmak, and starring Burt Lancaste ...
'' (1952) – Prof. Elihu Prudence * ''
The Pickwick Papers ''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'' (also known as ''The Pickwick Papers'') was Charles Dickens's first novel. Because of his success with ''Sketches by Boz'' published in 1836, Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to s ...
'' (1952) – Samuel Pickwick * ''
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'' (1953) – Joe Lawson * '' Four Sided Triangle'' (1953) – Dr. Harvey * '' Always a Bride'' (1953) – Dutton * '' Will Any Gentleman...?'' (1953) – Dr. Smith * ''
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'' (1953) – Fred Collins * '' For Better, for Worse'' (1954) – The Plumber * ''
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'' (1954) – Mortimer * '' The Awakening'' (1954) - The Chief * '' See How They Run'' (1955) – Bishop of Lax * ''
Land of the Pharaohs ''Land of the Pharaohs'' is a 1955 American epic historical drama film in Cinemascope and WarnerColor from Warner Bros., produced and directed by Howard Hawks, that stars Jack Hawkins as Pharaoh Khufu, also known as Cheops, and Joan Collins as ...
'' (1955) – Mikka, Vashtar's Servant * '' Touch and Go'' (1955) – Kimball * ''
Keep It Clean ''Keep It Clean'' is a 1956 British black-and-white comedy film directed by David Paltenghi and starring Ronald Shiner as Bert Lane and Joan Sims as Violet Tarbottom. Plot Advertising agent Bert Lane (Ronald Shiner) plans to market his brother- ...
'' (1956) – Mr. Bouncenboy * ''
Port Afrique ''Port Afrique'' is a 1956 British drama film based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Bernard Victor Dryer (1918–1995). The colour film was directed by Rudolph Maté and the adapted screenplay was written by John Cresswell. The film w ...
'' (1956) – Nino * '' It's a Wonderful World'' (1956) – Bert Fielding * ''
Seven Waves Away ''Seven Waves Away'' (alternate U.S. titles: ''Abandon Ship!'' and ''Seven Days From Now'') is a 1957 British adventure film directed by Richard Sale and starring Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, and Stephen Boyd. When his ship go ...
'' (1957) – 'Cookie' Morrow * '' Carry On Admiral'' (1957) – Member of Parliament (uncredited) * ''
The Heart Within ''The Heart Within'' is a 1957 British drama film directed by David Eady and starring James Hayter, Clifford Evans and David Hemmings. Its plot involves a Jamaican dockside worker who goes on the run in London suspected of the murder of anoth ...
'' (1957) – Grandfather Willard * ''
Gideon's Day ''Gideon's Day'' is the first in a series of police procedural novels by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric. Published in 1955, it features a day in the professional life of Detective Superintendent George Gideon of the C.I.D., Scotland ...
'' (1958) – Robert Mason * ''
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'' (1958) – Mr. Frith * '' I Was Monty's Double'' (1958) – Sgt. Adams * ''
The Captain's Table ''The Captain's Table'' is a 1959 Cinema of the United Kingdom, British comedy film directed by Jack Lee (film director), Jack Lee based upon a novel by Richard Gordon (English author), Richard Gordon. It stars John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Pegg ...
'' (1959) – Earnshaw * '' The 39 Steps'' (1959) – Mr. Memory * ''
The Boy and the Bridge ''The Boy and the Bridge'' is a 1959 British drama film produced and directed by Kevin McClory. It featured Ian Maclaine, Liam Redmond, James Hayter, Geoffrey Keen, and Arthur Lowe. The film was shot during the summer of 1958 and set around L ...
'' (1959) – Tugboat Skipper * ''
The Moonstone ''The Moonstone'' (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. The story was serialised in Charles Di ...
'' (1959) – Gabriel Betteredge * '' Go to Blazes'' (1962) – Pipe Smoker * ''Out of the Fog'' (1962) – Tom Daniels * ''
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'' (1962) – Arab Sheik at Council (uncredited) * '' Stranger in the House'' (1967) – Harry Hawkins * ''
A Challenge for Robin Hood ''A Challenge for Robin Hood'' is a 1967 British adventure film directed by C. M. Pennington-Richards and starring Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe and John Arnatt. Plot When the father of the De Courtenay family dies, the brothers argue about th ...
'' (1967) – Friar Tuck * ''
Oliver! ''Oliver!'' is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before op ...
'' (1968) – Mr. Jessop * ''
Song of Norway ''Song of Norway'' is an operetta written in 1944 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Edvard Grieg and the book by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran. A very loose film adaptation with major changes to both the book ...
'' (1970) – Butler to Berg * ''
The Horror of Frankenstein ''The Horror of Frankenstein'' is a 1970 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions that is both a semi-parody and semi-remake of the 1957 film '' The Curse of Frankenstein'', of Hammer's ''Frankenstein'' series. It was produced and direct ...
'' (1970) – Bailiff * ''
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'' (1970) – (uncredited) * '' The Firechasers'' (1971) – Inspector Herman * ''
The Blood on Satan's Claw ''The Blood on Satan's Claw'' is a 1971 British supernatural horror film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, and Barry Andrews. Set in early 18th-century England, it follows the residents of a rural village w ...
'' (1971) – Squire Middleton * '' Burke & Hare'' (1972) – Dr. Selby * ''
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones ''The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones'' is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard and Terry-Thomas. It is an adaptation of the 1749 novel ''Tom Jones'' by Henry Fielding, which follows the main ...
'' (1976) – Briggs


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayter, James 1907 births 1983 deaths Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Scottish male film actors Scottish male television actors People educated at Dollar Academy British Army personnel of World War II 20th-century Scottish male actors British male comedy actors Royal Armoured Corps soldiers