Tom Walls

Biography

From Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time. In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.

Most Known For

Rookery Nook

as Clive Popkiss

Undercover

as Kossan Petrovitch

Stormy Weather

as Sir Duncan Craggs

They Met in the Dark

as Christopher Child

The Halfway House

as Capt. Meadows

Me and Marlborough

as John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough

While I Live

as Nehemiah

Johnny Frenchman

as Net Pomeroy

This Man Is Mine

as Philip Ferguson

Dishonour Bright

as Stephen Champion

Crackerjack

as Jack Drake

The Interrupted Journey

as Mr. Clayton

Foreign Affaires

as Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore

Maytime in Mayfair

as Inspector

Love Story

as Tom Tanner

Strange Boarders

as Tommy Blythe

Lady in Danger

as Richard Dexter

Leap Year

as Sir Peter Trallion

A Cuckoo in the Nest

as Maj. George Bone

Fighting Stock

as Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley