Trivia

Solidly-built veteran British character actor, on stage from 1900. Toured Australia, Canada and the U.S. with various theatrical companies and had entered films by at least 1910. Busier on screen from 1934 to 1950, usually cast as benevolent, crusty or wily old men, or as hard-working, cloth-capped lower-class types. During the First World War, Rigby was awarded the Military Cross while serving with the Royal Field Artillery.

Father: William Harriott Coke; Mother: Mary Elizabeth Rigby.

He was originally going to be a farmer but took to the stage.

After WW1 he went to America and spent 10 years on the stage there.

Educated at Haileybury School.

Made his first theatre appearance was in 1900. in 'Tocket of Leave Man' at the Grand Theatre in Fulham.