David Langton(1912-1994)
- Actor
His father, a wine importer loved the theatre and encouraged his acting
ambitions and got him his first job at 16 touring with a Shakespearean
company painting scenery and doing walk on parts. His mother
disapproved thinking it wasn't a job for a respectable middle class
young man. By 1939 he'd graduated to leading roles but then the war
came. He joined the army and rose through the ranks to become a major.
Within four days of leaving the service he was back in the theatre in a
play 'Fifty Fifty' and the 'Seagulls Over Sorento' which ran five
years.
