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 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 ...

, Clifford Severn, Yvonne Severn,

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 ...

. Like his brothers Cliff and Winston, Raymond Severn played for the U.S. national cricket team. Raymond Severn played

Paul Muni Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of ...

's son in the 1939 film ''We Are Not Alone''. Raymond and his brothers Ernest and Christopher all acted in the 1943 film ''

The Man from Down Under ''The Man from Down Under'' is an American 1943 drama film starring Charles Laughton as an Australian man who raises two war orphans. Plot After the end of World War I, Australian soldier Jocko Wilson (Charles Laughton) admires the spirit of a d ...

''. He died in Granada Hills in 1994.

Selected filmography

* ''The Story of Dr. Jenner'' (Short) (1939) - Little Jim Phipps * '' We Are Not Alone'' (1939) - Gerald Newcome * ''

Foreign Correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...

'' (1940) - bit part * '' The Reluctant Dragon'' (1941) - Baby Weems (voice only) * '' On the Sunny Side'' (1942) - Boots, Kids Club member * '' This Above All'' (1942) - Jackie Harvey * ''

A Yank at Eton ''A Yank at Eton'' is an American comedy-drama film directed by Norman Taurog for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter, and Peter Lawford. Released in 1942, it is a kind of junior thematic sequel to MGM's British-made film ...

'' (1942) - 'Inky' Weeld * ''

'' (1943) - 'Nipper' at age 12 * ''

A Guy Named Joe ''A Guy Named Joe'' is a 1943 American supernatural romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The film was produced by Everett Riskin and stars Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson. The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and Fre ...

'' (1943) - Cyril, English boy * ''

The Lodger The Lodger may refer to: * ''The Lodger'' (novel), a 1913 horror novel about a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes ** '' The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'', a 1927 British silent film by Alfred Hitchcock *** "Th ...

'' (1944) - boy * ''

The Hour Before the Dawn ''The Hour Before the Dawn'' is a 1944 American drama war film directed by Frank Tuttle starring Franchot Tone and Veronica Lake. It was based on the 1942 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Plot In 1923 in England, General Hetherton is instructi ...

'' (1944) - Jim as a boy * '' The Suspect'' (1944) - Merridew

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* * American male child actors American male film actors American people of South African descent 1930 births 1994 deaths People from Granada Hills, Los Angeles 20th-century American male actors Cricketers from Johannesburg Cricketers from Los Angeles American cricketers {{US-cricket-bio-stub