• Alfred Drayton (1 November 1881 – 26 April 1949) was a British stage and film actor. Drayton worked in a brewery when he was 18 but having a good deal...
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  • British comedy film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gracie Fields, Alfred Drayton and Douglas Wakefield. The film is notable for featuring an appearance...
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  • Nickleby Stanley Holloway as Vincent Crummles Alfred Drayton as Wackford Squeers Cyril Fletcher as Alfred Mantalini Bernard Miles as Newman Noggs Derek...
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  • comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Gordon Harker, Alfred Drayton, Robertson Hare and Garry Marsh. The film is based upon a stage play...
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  • directed by Fred W. Durrant and starring Owen Nares, Madge Titheradge and Alfred Drayton. It was shot at Isleworth Studios. A clerk's service as subaltern spoils...
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  • Happen at Night (1947), a poltergeist comedy he co-starred in with Alfred Drayton and Robertson Hare. His last major screen role was as the wily waiter...
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  • comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and George Sanders. It is adapted from the 1922 play So This Is London...
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    Rhodes, Alexander Roos, George Devey and John Alfred Gotch. It sits in a park of about 200 acres known as Drayton Park. It has passed only by inheritance since...
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  • British comedy film directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Richard Greene, Alfred Drayton, Patricia Medina, Moore Marriott and Richard Bird. It was shot at the...
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  • comedy film directed by Walter C. Mycroft and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Isabel Jeans. The film is based on a 1938 stage play of the same...
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  • Frank Cellier as Sir Murray Keith Isabel Jeans as Elisabet von Eyben Alfred Drayton as Count Brandt Nicholas Hannen as Guldberg, the Prime Minister Ruby...
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  • crime film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Hugh Wakefield, Alfred Drayton, and Niall MacGinnis. It is based on the 1922 novel The Crimson Circle...
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  • Hare, Alfred Drayton and Billy Milton. A number of people try to prevent a man getting married. Robertson Hare as Herbert Holly Alfred Drayton as Thomas...
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  • by the British writer Vernon Sylvaine and featured Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Judy Kelly in its original cast. It ran at the Strand Theatre in...
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  • Royce and Alfred Drayton. Fanny Tittell-Brune as Margaret Brand Sydney Fairbrother as Mrs. O'Connor Julian Royce as Martin Brand Alfred Drayton as Frank...
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  • Maine, causing a tree to crash through the lakeside home of artist David Drayton, his wife Stephanie, and their eight-year-old son, Billy. The next morning...
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  • Huntington and starring Aldwych Theatre farceurs Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton, with Polly Ward and Joyce Heron. It was made at Welwyn Studios and...
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    run, with du Maurier again in the cast along with Mabel Terry-Lewis, Alfred Drayton, Ronald Squire and Joyce Carey. The theme of the play is whether it...
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  • directed by Millard Webb and starring George Barraud, Daphne Courtney and Alfred Drayton. Its plot concerns a father who deserted his family some years before...
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  • Harry Hughes and starring Douglass Montgomery, Betty Ann Davies and Alfred Drayton. It was based on the novel Bunga-Bunga by Stephen King-Hall. A series...
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  • 1948 to February 1950. The cast originally included Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton, who had appeared together in several of Sylvaine's farces and their...
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  • Broadway at the Fulton Theatre, where ran for 144 performances, with Alfred Drayton and Frederick Kerr from the London cast. In 1930 it was adapted into...
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  • Theatre in London's West End. The original cast included Cyril Maude, Alfred Drayton, Marion Lorne, Joyce Kennedy, Stella Arbenina, George Bellamy, O.B....
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  • into a film of the same title starring Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton. Hare and Drayton starred in two further adaptations of his plays A Spot of Bother...
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  • 1945 and February 1946. The original cast included Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Paul Demel. In 1951 the play served as a loose basis for a film...
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  • Ernest Thesiger reprised his stage success as Bertram Tully, as did Alfred Drayton (Dr. Bigland) and Stanley Lathbury (Nixon Trippet). The play was filmed...
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  • Francoise Rosay) Esmond Knight as David Davies Guy Middleton as Fortescue Alfred Drayton as Oakley Valerie White as Jill French Richard Bird as Sqn. Ldr. French...
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  • comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Sandra Storme and Kathleen Joyce. The film is a farce in which a bishop...
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  • West Musical comedy Banana Ridge Walter C. Mycroft Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton Comedy The Big Blockade Charles Frend Leslie Banks, John Mills World...
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  • film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Nancy O'Neil, Alfred Drayton and Sam Wilkinson. Its plot follows a humble seaman who falls in love...
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