Randle Ayrton was a British actor, producer and director.

Career

Ayrton was educated at the King's School in Chester and Geneva University. In 1890 he made his stage debut at the Old Avenue Theatre in London and has been successful on stage in London and in America into the late 1930s. In 1913 he began his film career with the old London Film Company, going from silent to talkie films in a number of companies. He has produced and directed several films also.

Selected filmography

• Profit and Loss (1917)
• The Hanging Judge
  The Hanging Judge (film)
  The Hanging Judge is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edwards, Chrissie White and Hamilton Stewart. The son of a notorious judge is put on trial for murder. It was based on a play by Tom Gallon and Leon M...
  
  (1918)
• Chu-Chin-Chow
  Chu-Chin-Chow (1925 film)
  Chu-Chin-Chow is a 1925 British-German adventure film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Betty Blythe, Herbert Langley and Randle Ayrton....
  
  (1923)
• Southern Love
  Southern Love
  Southern Love is a 1924 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Betty Blythe, Herbert Langley and Randle Ayrton. It is based on the poem The Spanish Student by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is known by the alternative title Woman's Secret...
  
  (1924)
• The Little People (1926)
• One of the Best
  One of the Best (film)
  One of the Best is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Walter Byron and Eve Gray. It was based on a play by Seymour Hicks...
  
  (1927)
• His House in Order
  His House in Order (1928 film)
  His House in Order is a 1928 British silent film directed by Randle Ayrton. Based on the play His House in Order by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero...
  
  (1928)
• High Seas
  High Seas (film)
  High Seas is an early 1929 British adventure film directed by Denison Clift and starring Lillian Rich, James Carew, John Stuart, Randle Ayrton and Winter Hall...
  
  (1929)
• The Feather
  The Feather
  For the Touched by an Angel episode see List of Touched by an Angel episodesThe Feather is a 1929 British romantic drama film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Jameson Thomas, Véra Flory, Randle Ayrton and Mary Clare....
  
  (1929)
• The Manxman
  The Manxman
  The Manxman is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on an 1896 romantic novel The Manxman by Hall Caine, the director began work on the film just two weeks after the birth of his daughter, Patricia Hitchcock...
  
  (1929)
• The Great Game (1930)
• Dreyfus
  Dreyfus (1931 film)
  Dreyfus is a 1931 British film on the Dreyfus affair, translated from the play by Wilhelm Herzog and Hans Rehfisch and the 1930 German film Dreyfus.-Cast:*Cedric Hardwicke - Capt. Alfred Dreyfus*Charles Carson - Col. Picquart...
  
  (1931)
• Jew Suss
  Jew Suss (1934 film)
  Jud Süß is a 1934 British historical romantic drama film. Directed by Lothar Mendes, the film stars German actor Conrad Veidt in the role of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer. British censors did not allow a film to openly criticize the persecution of Jews, since it would have appeared as an attack on German...
  
  (1934)
• Me and Marlborough
  Me and Marlborough
  Me and Marlborough is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1935)
• Debt of Honour
  Debt of Honour
  Debt of Honour is a 1936 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Leslie Banks, Will Fyffe, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Garry Marsh.-Plot:A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts...
  
  (1936)
• Talk of the Devil (1936)

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044024/. imdb Randle Ayrton.
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044024/otherworks. imdb Randle Ayrton other works.