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Name
  
Cliff Severn

Role
  
Child actor

Movies
  
Gaucho Serenade, Jalna


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Siblings
  
Christopher Severn, Winston Severn, William Severn, Ernest Severn, Venetia Severn, Yvonne Severn, Raymond Severn

Similar People
  
Christopher Severn, William Severn, Raymond Severn, William Keighley, William Dieterle

Cliff Severn (Johannesburg, September 21, 1925 – Thousand Oaks, June 4, 2014) was an American cricketer and child screen actor.

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Clifford Severn was the son of Dr. Clifford Brill Severn (1890-1981). His parents emigrated from South Africa to Los Angeles after he was born. He had seven siblings who were all child actors: Venetia Severn, Yvonne Severn, Raymond Severn, Ernest Severn, Christopher Severn, William Severn and Winston Severn. He died in Los Angeles, California, in 2014.

Like his brothers Winston and Raymond, Cliff Severn played for the US national cricket team.

As Clifford Severn (in 1940 films as Clifford Severn Jr), he appeared notably in the films A Christmas Carol and the war film They Live in Fear.

Selected filmography

  • Jalna (1935) - Wakefield 'Wake' Whiteoaks
  • The Perfect Gentleman (1935) released in UK as The Imperfect Lady - Johnny
  • Quality Street (1937) - Arthur
  • The Prince and the Pauper (1937) - third urchin
  • Our Gang Follies of 1938 (Short) (1938) - Richard
  • Kidnapped (1938) - urchin
  • A Christmas Carol (1938) - Boy buying Scrooge's Christmas turkey
  • Man About Town (1939) - English bellboy
  • Gaucho Serenade (1940) - Ronnie Willoughby (as Clifford Severn Jr.)
  • Captain Caution (1940) - Travers (as Clifford Severn Jr.)
  • South of Suez (1940) - technical advisor (non-acting)
  • Man Hunt (1941) - cockney boy
  • How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Mervyn Phillips
  • Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) - Paddy
  • This Above All (1942) - lift boy
  • Atlantic Convoy (1942) - Sandy Brown
  • Random Harvest (1942) - Albert
  • Forever and a Day (1943) - Nelson Trimble, Bill and Susan's son
  • They Live in Fear (1944) - Paul Graffen
  • References

    Cliff Severn Wikipedia