Roy Leywood
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Roy Leywood | |
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| Occupation | Radio producer & Actor |
| Years active | 1956–1989 |
| Works | Under the Mountain Erebus: The Aftermath |
Roy Leywood is a New Zealand actor, director, and radio producer who began his career in the 1950s working on New Zealand radio dramas.
He began his career in 1956 directing radio plays for the Wellington Repertory Theatre. One of his earlier works was "The Desperate Hours" which was broadcast between 28 April and 2 May 1959. He later produced and directed "Radio Play #137" which was broadcast on 3 November 1965. During the broadcast, Leywood was the director for the segment "The Cause of Something", written by Stephen Rose.[1] Leywood would also star in the Australian radio show "The Frigate Captain", a fifteen-minute multi-part series, in which Leywood played the character of "Doctor Guthrie".[2]
One of his last known radio works was as a voice actor on the radio program "Voices of Gallipoli".[3]