![]() On April 1, 1964, he reprised his character of Edwin Carp in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show which saluted several old-time radio performers. Bartlett Finchley, a quirky, self-absorbed, technophobe who is confronted by every machine in his home. In the 1960 The Twilight Zone episode " A Thing About Machines", he portrayed Mr. Summerlee in 1960's The Lost World, and in the same year, played opposite Doris Day in Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Haydn performed as the nosy neighbour and gossip in Sitting Pretty with Clifton Webb and Maureen O'Hara in 1948, using his over-nasal voice. He was acclaimed for his role in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1965 film musical The Sound of Music, in which he played the Von Trapps' family friend Max Detweiler. Haydn was the manservant Rogers in the 1945 adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, and William Brown in the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Notable performances included the voice of the Caterpillar in the 1951 Disney animated adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, and his small role of Herr Falkstein in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein. Much of his stage delivery was done in a deliberate over-nasalized and over-enunciated manner. Music, 1950), Richard Rancyd ( Miss Tatlock's Millions, 1948) and Stanley Stayle ( Dear Wife, 1949). Haydn was known for playing eccentric characters, such as Edwin Carp, Claud Curdle ( Mr. ![]() Haydn as Thomas Rogers in the 1945 film And Then There Were None His body was found in his home in Pacific Palisades, California, and was donated to the University of California, Los Angeles. Haydn died on April 25, 1985, at the age of 80 following a heart attack. In the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks said that Haydn eschewed the Hollywood lifestyle and that he used gardening and horticulture as a means of escape. Haydn never married nor had children, although he was engaged to the actress Maria Riva for several months in 1943. After working as a music hall entertainer and overseer of a Jamaican banana plantation, he joined a touring British theatre troupe, and then moved into television and film. Haydn was born on March 10, 1905, in Camberwell. Some of his better known performances include his roles as Professor Oddley in Ball of Fire (1941), Roger in No Time for Love (1943), Thomas Rogers in And Then There Were None (1945), Emperor Franz Joseph in The Emperor Waltz (1948), the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1951), Baron Popoff in The Merry Widow (1952), William Brown in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music (1965). Richard Haydn (born George Richard Haydon, 10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985) was a British-American comedy actor.
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