Biography
Harry Welchman (24 February 1886 – 3 January 1966) was an English actor best known as a leading performer in musical theatre on the London stage between the wars. Born in Barnstaple, Devon, he began his stage career in the early 1900s and appeared in numerous musical comedies, including long-running productions such as The Arcadians (1909).
Welchman made around nineteen films between 1915 and 1954. His screen roles included Major Davies in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Captain Ferrier in The Gentle Sex (1943), and parts in The Common Touch (1941), This Was Paris (1942), Waltz Time (1945) and Lisbon Story (1946). He later lived in Penzance, Cornwall, where he died.
