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name: "Naunton Wayne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/naunton-wayne"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 June 1901"
died: "17 November 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:42:49.233187+00:00"
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# Naunton Wayne

Actor. Born 22 June 1901 in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Died 17 November 1970.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 June 1901, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- **Died:** 17 November 1970
- **Also known as:** Henry Wayne Davies

## Biography

Naunton Wayne (born Henry Wayne Davies) was a Welsh character actor. Born in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, he was educated at Clifton College and changed his name by deed poll in 1933. He began in stage and music hall work before moving into film in the 1930s.

He is best known for playing Caldicott, one half of a pair of cricket-obsessed Englishmen, opposite Basil Radford as Charters. The characters first appeared in *The Lady Vanishes* (1938) and were repeated in *Night Train to Munich* (1940), *Crook's Tour* (1941), *Millions Like Us* (1943), *Dead of Night* (1945), *It's Not Cricket* (1949) and *Passport to Pimlico* (1949).

Wayne's other film roles include *Obsession* (1949) and *The Titfield Thunderbolt* (1953). He worked in film and on stage until the late 1960s and died in 1970.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Lady Vanishes* (1938), Fi1m 88, as Caldicott — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lady-vanishes.md)

## Also known for

- *Dead of Night* (1945), Larry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")
- *Passport to Pimlico* (1949), Straker
- *Night Train to Munich* (1940), Caldicott
- *The Titfield Thunderbolt* (1953), George Blakeworth
- *Obsession* (1949), Supt. Finsbury

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