Will Hay

WILL HAY d1949. English comedian film actor director and amateur astronomeur. He worked at the British film studios of Elstree / Gainsborough and Ealing during the 1930s. His best known role being on the railway film "Oh Mr Porter" (1937) with its catchphrase, 'The next train's gone!', spoken by Marriott as the decrepit old deputy stationmaster. Hay decided to break up the partnership with Moffatt and Marriott and brought in Claude Hulbert as his side-kick for The Ghost of St Michaels (1941) and The Goose Steps Out (1942). His 1943 film My Learned Friend again with Hulbert, is considered a masterpiece of black comedy ....... He died following a stroke aged 60 in 1949.