Will Hay
Birthday: 1888-12-05
Place of Birth: Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Thomson "Will" Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, film director and amateur astronomer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Hay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Ask a Policeman
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and J...
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Oh, Mr. Porter!
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in ...
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
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Convict 99
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the ...
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Good Morning, Boys!
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s s...
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Where There's a Will
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to fin...
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My Learned Friend
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the lis...
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Boys Will Be Boys
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby publi...
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Old Bones of the River
Hay plays Professor Benjamin Tibbetts, representative of the Teaching & Welfare Institution for the ...
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Windbag the Sailor
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coa...
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The...
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Where's That Fire
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels....
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a ...
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Dandy Dick
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, wi...
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The Goose Steps Out
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by Brit...
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Those Were the Days
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern...
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Hey! Hey! USA
While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. U...
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Radio Parade of 1935
One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadca...
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The Big Blockade
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early y...
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Go to Blazes
Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat...
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Camera Interviews: Will Hay
Will Hay – the schoolmaster laughter-maker at the recent Command Performance. When the cat's away th...
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Will Hay and the Stars
As well as being one of Britain's most popular stage and screen comedians, Will Hay was an avid astr...
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Thora Hird Tribute
Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron an...
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