Laidman Browne
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Laidman Browne (13 September 1896 – 11 September 1961) was an English stage, radio and television actor.[1]
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1896, he was a founder member of the Newcastle Repertory Company in 1925, playing leading parts there until 1931.[2] Later, in 1939, he was a founder member of the BBC Radio Repertory Company, with whom he remained for 12 years, reputedly playing 2,126 roles.[3] In 1949 he was the narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', the first book read on the BBC's long-running series A Book at Bedtime.[4] His stage credits included seasons at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, together with such West End plays as 1066 and All That (1935-36) and A Dead Secret (1957).[5]
He died in Bournemouth in 1961, aged 64.
