Clifford Severn (September 21, 1925 – June 4, 2014) was an American cricketer and child screen actor. Clifford Severn was the son of Dr. Clifford Brill Severn (1890–1981). His parents emigrated from South Africa to Los Angeles after he was born. He had seven siblings who were all child actors:

Venetia Severn Venetia may refer to: Places * Veneto or Venetia, a modern Italian region * Adriatic Venetia (tribal region), an ancient tribal region of Adriatic Veneti * Venetia et Histria, an administrative region of ancient Roman Italy * Byzantine Venetia, a ...

, Yvonne Severn,

Raymond Severn Raymond Chesterton Shaw Severn (June 19, 1930 – November 3, 1994) was an American cricketer and child screen actor. He had seven siblings who were all child actors: Venetia Severn, Clifford Severn, Yvonne Severn, Ernest Severn, Christopher Seve ...

Ernest Severn Ernest Severn (3 May 193327 November 1987) was an American child screen actor. He was born Ernest Hubbard Smuts Severn, son of Dr. Clifford Brill Severn (1890–1981) and his South African wife Rachel Malherbe (1897–1984). His parents emigr ...

Christopher Severn Christopher Aubrey Reginald Severn (born 21 August 1935 in Los Angeles) is an American former screen actor. Severn is the son of Dr. Clifford Brill Severn (1890-1981). His parents had emigrated from South Africa to Los Angeles shortly before he ...

William Severn William Severn (Los Angeles, 17 January 1938Ventura County, 26 March 1983) was an American child screen actor. He had seven siblings who were all child actors: Venetia, Clifford, Yvonne, Raymond, Ernest, Christopher, and Winston Severn. I ...

and

Winston Severn Winston Franklin Severn (born Los Angeles, November 30, 1942) is an American former cricketer and child screen actor. Severn was the youngest son of Dr. Clifford Brill Severn (1890-1981). His parents had emigrated from South Africa to Los Angeles ...

. He died in Los Angeles in 2014 at age 88. Like his brothers Winston and Raymond, Clifford Severn played for the US national cricket team. As Clifford Severn (in 1940 films as Clifford Severn Jr), he appeared notably in the films ''

A Christmas Carol ''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the ...

'' and the war film '' They Live in Fear''.

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* 1925 births 2014 deaths American male child actors American male film actors American people of South African descent South African emigrants to the United States Cricketers from Johannesburg 20th-century American actors Cricketers from Los Angeles American cricketers {{US-cricket-bio-stub