Roy Royston

Roy Royston
Born	(1899-04-05)5 April 1899 London, England
Died	7 October 1976(1976-10-07) (aged 77) Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1912 – 1966

Roy Royston (5 April 1899 – 7 October 1976) born in London, was an English actor who appeared in a large number of films between 1912 and 1966, beginning as a child actor. Most of his motion pictures were silent films made before the First World War.

Beyond his early career in silent films, Royston worked also in musical theatre. From February to April 1923 he appeared in The Cousin from Nowhere at the Prince's Theatre, London, and he played the leading role of Jack Lloyd in the C. B. Cochran London production of Little Nellie Kelly between 1923 and 1924.

After a break in his film career of some thirty years, Royston played a clergyman in the Hammer Horror movie The Plague of the Zombies (1966).

Selected filmography

• The Pony Who Paid the Rent (1912) (short) — Boy
• Repaying the Debt (1912) (short) — Boy
• A Day in the Country (1912) (short) — The Boy
• Children of the Forest (1912) (short) — The Boy
• A Double Life (1912) (short) — Gray
• A Bore of a Boy (1913) (short) — Bob
• The Girl Next Door (1913) (short) — Bobby
• A Day on Rollers (1913) (short) — Roy
• Algy's Tormentor (1913) (short) — Bob
• Daddy's Darlings (1913) (short) — Boy
• Little Willie's Apprenticeships (1913) (short) — Willie
• Three Little Vagabonds (1913) (short) — Willie
• Freddy's Dumb Playmates (1913) (short) — Freddy

• When the Hurricanes Visited the Doughnuts (1913) (short) — Buster
• When the Hurricanes Visited the Sawmills (1914) (short) — Buster
• When the Hurricanes Took Up Farming (1914) (short) — Buster
• When the Hurricanes Bought the Lino (1914) (short) — Buster
• The Loosened Plank (1914) (short) — The Boy
• One Summer's Day (1917)
• Mr. Wu (1919) — Basil Gregory
• The Magistrate (1921) — Farringdon
• The Shaming of the True (1930) (short) — Sir Frederick Fincke
• Just for a Song (1930) — Jack
• The Big Splash (1935) — Jack Trent
• The Plague of the Zombies (1966) — Vicar

External links

• Roy Royston at BFI Film & TV Database
• Roy Royston filmography at Internet Movie Database