Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1949)

Will Hay

English comedian, actor, and film director (1888–1949)

William Thomson Hay was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a schoolmaster sketch that later transferred to the screen, where he also played other authority figures with comic failings. His film Oh, Mr Porter! (1937), made by Gainsborough Pictures, is often cited as the…