Danny Green (actor)

English actor (1903–1973)

Danny Green
Green in The Ladykillers (1955)
Born	26 May 1903 (1903-05-26) London, England
Died	1973(1973-00-00) (aged 69–70)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1929–1969

Danny Green (26 May 1903 – 1973^[1]) was an English character actor. He was best known for his role as the slow-witted ex-boxer "One-Round" Lawson in The Ladykillers.^[2]

He worked regularly in film, television and on the stage, including playing comic gangsters in the original London productions of Guys and Dolls (1953) and Do Re Mi (1961).^[3]^[4]

One of his last roles was as Lord Surrey in the Randal and Hopkirk episode Just for the Record in 1969.^[5]

Filmography

The Crooked Billet (1929) - Rogers
Atlantic (1929) - Passenger
The Fire Raisers (1934) - Stedding's Henchman (uncredited)
Wild Boy (1934) - Driver (uncredited)
Things Are Looking Up (1935) - Big Black Fox
Crime Over London (1936) - Klemm
Silver Blaze (1937) - Barton, Moriarty's Henchman (uncredited)
Midnight Menace (1937) - Socks, American Henchman
Gangway (1937) - Shorty
Jericho (1937) - Sergeant (uncredited)
The Squeaker (1937) - Safecracker (uncredited)
Non-Stop New York (1937) - Gangster (uncredited)
Hey! Hey! USA (1938) - McGuire - Cop (uncredited)
Sailors Three (1940) - Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
Welcome, Mr. Washington (1944) - Hank (uncredited)
Fiddlers Three (1944) - Lictor
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) - Scorpi
The Echo Murders (1945) - Carl
The Man Within (1947) - Smuggler
Dancing with Crime (1947) - Sid (uncredited)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) - Flyn
On the Spot (1948, TV film) - Con O'Hara
Good-Time Girl (1948) - Smiling Billy
Helter Skelter (1949) - Liftman (uncredited)
Someone at the Door (1950) - Price
Once a Sinner (1950) - Ticker James
State Secret (1950) - Taxi Driver
The Lady Craved Excitement (1950) - Boris
Her Favourite Husband (1950) - Angel Face
Mister Drake's Duck (1951) - Truck driver
A Tale of Five Cities (1951) - Levinsky
Whispering Smith Hits London (1952) - Cecil
Little Big Shot (1952) - Big Mo
Laughing Anne (1953) - Nicholas
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) - Bully Bason
The Ladykillers (1955) - One-Round
Jumping for Joy (1956) - Plug Ugly
Assignment Redhead (1956) - Yotti Blum
Seven Waves Away (1957) - Joe Woolsek
Interpol (1957) - Second Bartender
Wideawake (1957, TV film) - 'Professor' Hagen
A Santa for Christmas (1957, TV film)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958) - Grave Robber (uncredited)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) - Karim
Hidden Homicide (1959) - Cliff Darby
Beyond This Place (1959) - Roach
In the Wake of a Stranger (1959) - Barnes
Girls of the Latin Quarter (1960) - Hodgson
Surprise Package (1960) - Nicky Canfield (uncredited)
The Barber of Stamford Hill (broadcast 28th. July, 1960) - Mr. O - (ITV Television Playhouse, series 5, episode 47)
Man in the Moon (1960) - Lorry driver
The Fast Lady (1963) - Bandit
The Old Dark House (1963) - Morgan Femm
A Stitch in Time (1963) - Ticehurst, Man With Beard.
Kiss Me Kate (1964, TV film) - Gangster
Doctor in Clover (1966) - Ashby (uncredited)
Smashing Time (1967)
The Fixer (1968) - The Giggler (uncredited)

References

^ McFarlane, Brian (28 February 2014). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. p. 305; ISBN 9781526111968
^ "Danny Green". Archived from the original on 31 May 2017.
^ "Danny Green - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
^ "Guys and Dolls Original West End Cast - 1953 West End". broadwayworld.com.
^ "Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): S1". aveleyman.com.