{{Short description|English actor (1901–1987)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox person | image = Actor_Patrick_Waddington.jpg | name = Patrick Waddington | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1901|8|19|df=y}} | birth_place = York, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1987|2|4|1901|8|9|df=y}} | death_place = York, England | yearsactive = }}
'''Patrick William Simpson Waddington''' (19 August 1901{{spaced ndash}}4 February 1987) was an English actor, educated at Gresham's School at Holt in Norfolk.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f72d16d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917034356/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f72d16d|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 September 2018|title=Patrick Waddington|publisher=}}</ref> He was born and died in York, England.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/patrick-waddington-63683|title=Patrick Waddington – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB|first=The Broadway|last=League|website=www.ibdb.com}}</ref>
==Biography== Waddington was the grandson of William Waddington, the piano manufacturer who also took over the management of the Theatre Royal York.<ref name=borthwick>{{cite web|url=https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/pwad|title=Autobiography of Patrick Waddington - Borthwick Catalogue|website=borthcat.york.ac.uk}}</ref> After Gresham's School and St John's College, Oxford,<ref>''Who's who in the Theatre'', Volume 17 (1981), p. 684</ref> he started his career singing, and in the 1930s was in ''That Certain Trio'' with Peggy Cochrane.<ref name=mcfarlane>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&dq=patrick+waddington+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA791|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111975|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/that-certain-trio|title=That Certain Trio|first=British|last=Pathé|website=www.britishpathe.com}}</ref> On stage from 1924, often in upper-class roles, his theatre work included the original West End run of Patrick Hamilton's ''Rope'' in 1929; a lengthy tour of ''My Fair Lady'', as Colonel Pickering, in 1963–1965; and the musical ''Kean'' on Broadway, in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/2zh/rope/production/6qh|title=Production of Rope - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref name=mcfarlane/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://birminghamhippodromeheritage.com/bh_chronology/my-fair-lady-6/|title=My Fair Lady – Hippodrome Heritage|website=birminghamhippodromeheritage.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/m7s/patrick-waddington|title=Patrick Waddington - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/kean-2897|title=Kean – Broadway Musical – Original - IBDB|first=The Broadway|last=League|website=www.ibdb.com}}</ref> Film and TV included ''The Wooden Horse'' (1950), ''A Night to Remember'' (1958), and two episodes of ''Dad's Army'', as 'The Brigadier'.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=23735|title=Patrick Waddington|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref>
In 1951 he became General Secretary of TACT (The Actors Charitable Trust) and was headmaster of its children's home, Silverlands, until 1953.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.noelcoward.net/pdfs/Noel%20Coward%20and%20the%20Actors%20Orphanage.pdf | title=The Importance of Happiness: Noel Coward and the Actors Orphanage | first=Elliot | last=James | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918012258/http://www.noelcoward.net/pdfs/Noel%20Coward%20and%20the%20Actors%20Orphanage.pdf | archive-date=2018-09-18}}</ref><ref name=mcfarlane/> A plaque to commemorate him can be seen in the Courtyard entrance to the Merchant Adventurers' Hall in York. He was a member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York from 1933 to his death in 1987.<ref name=borthwick/> In 1986, he self-published his autobiography, ''Patrick: Or, That Awful Warning''.<ref name=borthwick/>
== Filmography == {{Div col}} * ''If Youth But Knew'' (1926) - Arthur Noel-Vane * ''Loyalties'' (1933) - Augustus Borring * ''The Loves of Madame Dubarry'' (1935) - René * ''The Black Tulip'' (1937) - Cornelus Van Baerle * ''Journey Together'' (1945) - Flight Lt Mander * ''Gaiety George'' (1946) - Lt Travers * ''School for Secrets'' (1946) - Group Captain Aspinall * ''The Clouded Crystal'' (1948) - Jack * ''It's Not Cricket'' (1949) - Valentine Christmas * ''That Dangerous Age'' (1949) - Rosley * ''Stop Press Girl'' (1949) - Airline Director (uncredited) * ''The Wooden Horse'' (1950) - Senior British Officer * ''The fire lake where the old man walks'' (1956) * ''Wideawake'' (1957) - Male, senior * ''The White Cliffs Mystery'' (1957) - Matrion * ''O.S.S.: Operation Big House'' (1957) - German Ambassador * ''Rx Murder'' (1958) - Sir George Watson * ''The Moonraker'' (1958) - Lord Dorset * ''A Night to Remember'' (1958) - Sir Richard * ''Battle of the V-1'' (1958) - Air Marshal (uncredited) * ''Play of the Week: Mary Stuart'' (1960) - Leicester * ''Naked City: The Man Who Bit a Diamond in Half'' (1960) - Mitcham * ''The Jazz Age: The Outstation'' (1968) - Lord Hollington * ''Armchair Theatre: The Mandarins'' (1969) - Sir Henry * ''Dad's Army: The Showing Up of Corporal Jones'' (1968) - The Brigadier * ''Dad's Army: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker'' (1969) (Lost) - The Brigadier * ''Department S: Who Plays the Dummy?'' (1969) - NATO General {{div col end}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book |last=Waddington |first=Patrick S. |year=1986 |title=Patrick: Or, That Awful Warning |publisher=Self-published |isbn=0-951132601}}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|0905352|Patrick Waddington}} *{{IBDB name|63683}}
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