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Harold Siddons

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Northern Irish actor (1922–1963)

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, Quatermass 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

References

  1. bfi Film and TV Database Siddons, Harold
  2. Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ "ulsteractors.com". Archived from the original on 20 July 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
  4. Daily Mirror, 5 November 1963 "TV Actor Found Dead"
  5. William Harold Henry Siddons, findagrave.com

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