Harold Siddons Biography

Actor from Northern Ireland

Publicity still of Siddons in Gift Horse (1952), by photographer Eric Gray

William Harold Henry Siddons (17 September 1922:– 4 November 1963) was a British film and television actor, appearing in Genevieve, The Dam Busters, Appointment in London, They Who Dare, The Purple Plain, Quaterm* and the Pit, A Night To Remember and The Wrong Arm of the Law. He served in Bomber Command during the Second World War as a flight engineer, latterly with 582 Squadron as the Flight Engineer Leader on its formation in April 1944 and is a descendant of Sarah Siddons.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 17 September 1922, he was found dead in his car on 4 November 1963 aged 41, apparently by suicide. He was buried in the parish churchyard of Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, with the motto Per ardua ad astra on his gravestone.

Selected filmography

  • Angels One Five (1952) - Pimpernel Pilot
  • Gift Horse (1952) - Ship's Doctor
  • Appointment in London (1953) - Saunders
  • Genevieve (1953) - Policeman (uncredited)
  • Malta Story (1953) - Matthews, Bomber Pilot (uncredited)
  • The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953) - Naval Intelligence Officer (uncredited)
  • They Who Dare (1954) - Lieut. Stevens R.N.
  • The Good Die Young (1954) - Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
  • Conflict of Wings (1954) - Flight Lt. Edwards
  • The Purple Plain (1954) - Navigator Williams (uncredited)
  • The Dam Busters (1955) - Group Signals Officer
  • I Am a Camera (1955) - Editor at Party
  • The Blue Peter (1955) - Hughes
  • The Baby and the Battleship (1956) - Whiskers
  • The Last Man to Hang? (1956) - Cheed's Doctor
  • Man in the Shadow (1957) - Colin Wells
  • The Mark of the Hawk (1957) - 1st Officer
  • The Silent Enemy (1958) - Army Interrogation Officer
  • Dunkirk (1958) - Doctor (uncredited)
  • A Night to Remember (1958) - Second Officer Herbert Stone - Californian
  • Battle of the V-1 (1958) - Master Bomber
  • Harry Black (1958) - British Officer
  • Danger Within (1959) - Capt. 'Tag' Burchnall
  • The White Trap (1959) - Harry (uncredited)
  • The Guns of Navarone (1961) - British Officer (uncredited)
  • The Man in the Back Seat (1961) - Angry Resident (uncredited)
  • Out of the Shadow (1961) - Newspaper Editor
  • The Piper's Tune (1962) - Sergeant
  • The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) - PC in Ba*t Garage (uncredited)

References

    External links

    • Harold Siddons at IMDb

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