{{Short description|American actor and songwriter (1895–1973)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} '''James Dyrenforth''' (January 31, 1895–December 26, 1973) was an American actor and songwriter.
Dyrenforth appeared in ''A Night to Remember'' (1958), ''Fiend Without a Face'' (1958), and ''Lolita'' (1962),<ref name="McDougal2003">{{cite book|author=Stuart Y. McDougal|title=Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uwj5qK-RUj0C&pg=PA155|date=7 July 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-57488-4|pages=155–}}</ref> and co-wrote "A Garden in the Rain", a song which was covered by Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan, among others. He wrote lyrics for ''The Golden Year'', a BBC television play of 1951.
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1957|| ''Confess, Killer'' || Doctor || |- |1958|| ''A Night to Remember'' || Col. Archibald Gracie || |- |1958|| ''Fiend Without a Face'' || Mayor || |- |1958|| ''Floods of Fear'' || Mayor || |- |1959|| ''Carlton-Browne of the F.O.'' || Admiral || Uncredited |- |1960|| ''Never Take Sweets from a Stranger'' || Dr. Stevens || |- |1960|| ''The City of the Dead'' || Garage Attendant || |- |1962|| ''Lolita'' || Frederick Beale Sr. || |- |1963|| ''The Girl Hunters'' || Bayliss Henry || |- |1964|| ''The Secret Door'' || Prison Warden || |- |1969|| ''The Magic Christian'' || Socialite in Sotheby's || Uncredited |- |1970|| ''The Revolutionary'' || Guest at Party #2 || |}
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0245982}} *{{IBDB name|67399}}
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