| Biography | John Blythe was an English character actor.
He entered films as a stage hand aged sixteen and made his film debut with Goodbye Mr. Chips in 1939 as one of the schoolboys. His second film role was the much more substantial role of Reg Gibbons, son of Robert Newton's and Celia Johnson's Frank and Ethel, in Noël Coward's and David Lean's This Happy Breed (1944). He had a brief part, too, as Jane Hylton's boyfriend in Dear Murderer, in 1947. He went on to specialise in playing spivs and fast talking wide boys, particularly during the late 'forties and early 'fifties when he enjoyed memorable roles in films such as Holiday Camp (1947), A Boy, a Girl and a Bike, Diamond City, Boys in Brown (all 1949) and Lili Marlene (1950). He was also the garage owner Gowan in the three Huggett films, Here Come the Huggetts (1948), Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad. |