Graham Moffatt

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Graham Moffatt
Born	Graham V. H. Moffatt 6 December 1919(1919-12-06) Hammersmith, London
Died	2 July 1965 (aged 45) Bath, Somerset
Cause of death	Myocardial infarction / Heart attack
Occupation	Comedy actor
Spouse	Joyce

For the playwright, see Graham Moffat

Graham Moffatt (6 December 1919 – 2 July 1965) was a British character actor and comedian.

Born in Hammersmith, London ^[1], he is best know for a number of films where he appeared with Will Hay and Moore Marriott as 'Albert': an insolent, overweight, overgrown-schoolboy type character, loosely reminiscent of Billy Bunter.

His first film with Will Hay was Where There's a Will (1936) in which he plays an office boy. In his next film with Hay, Windbag the Sailor (1936), he is joined by Moore Marriott and his character has become 'Albert'. He is known by this name in all his later films with Hay and Marriott: Oh, Mr Porter! (1937), Old Bones of the River (1938), Ask a Policeman (1939) and Where's That Fire? (1940). Still as Albert, he appeared again with Moore Marriott in a series of films starring Arthur Askey: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940), I Thank You (1941), and Back Room Boy (1942). His later films include Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going!, before he semi-retired from show business to become a publican with his wife Joyce. Together, they ran the Swan Inn at Braybrooke (near Market Harborough) followed by The Englishcoombe Inn at Bath. In March 1952 he had to be admitted to hospital in Kettering after two weeks of hiccoughing. He still made occasional film appearances until his death from a heart attack in 1965 ^[2]. His ashes were scattered at sea.

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• Graham Moffatt at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Will Hay Feature Films Those Were the Days  · Radio Parade of 1935  · Dandy Dick  · Boys Will Be Boys  · Windbag the Sailor  · Where There's a Will  · Oh, Mr Porter!  · Good Morning, Boys  · Hey! Hey! USA!  · Old Bones of the River  · Ask a Policeman  · Convict 99  · The Big Blockade  · Where's That Fire?  · The Ghost of St. Michael's  · Go to Blazes  · The Goose Steps Out  · The Black Sheep of Whitehall  · My Learned Friend  · Actors Moore Marriott  · Graham Moffatt  · John Mills  · Charles Hawtrey  · Directors William Beaudine  · Marcel Varnel  · Basil Dearden  · Distributors Gainsborough Pictures  · Ealing Studios  ·

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NAME	Moffatt, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Moffat, Graham
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Comedy actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1919-12-06
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hammersmith, London
DATE OF DEATH	1965-07-02
PLACE OF DEATH	Bath, Somerset