Graham Moffatt

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name = Graham Moffatt


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birth_name = Graham V. H. Moffatt
birth_date = birth date|1919|12|6|df=y
birth_place = Hammersmith, London
death_date = death date and age|1965|7|2|1919|12|6|df=y
death_place = Bath, Somerset
death_cause = Myocardial infarction / Heart attack
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occupation = Comedy actor
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footnotes = : "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 [GRO Register of Births: MAR 1920 1a 433 HAMMERSMITH - Graham V. H. Moffatt] , 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 [GRO Register of Deaths: SEP 1965 7c 38 - Graham V. H. Moffatt, aged 45] . His ashes were scattered at sea.

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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