British actor
An artist of great versatility he also crossed over into the world of theatre criticism with both The Spectator and Time and Tide.
Chubby, curly-haired British character actor and playwright, as well as movie and theatre critic. Worked as a BBC correspondent during the war years, afterwards alternating comic and dramatic performances as nervously befuddled businessmen, clergy, upper-class toffs or military officers. Had a hit play with "Boys in Brown".
Father: Percival C. Beckwith; Mother: Clara A. Dempsey.
