Hay Petrie

Hay Petrie was born on Jul 16, 1895 in UK. Hay Petrie's big-screen debut came with The Wandering Jew directed by Maurice Elvey in 1933, strarring Palermo Merchant (uncredited). Hay Petrie is known for A Canterbury Tale directed by Michael Powell, Eric Portman stars as Thomas Colpeper, JP and Sheila Sim as Alison Smith. The upcoming new movie Hay Petrie plays is The Queen of Spades which will be released on Jun 30, 1949.

Diminutive Scots character actor of quirky personality and gift of gab. As a drama student at St. Andrews, he first performed in productions staged by the university's dramatic society. He served with the Royal Scots during World War I, then forged a career playing comic roles on the Shakespearean stage, where he was often billed as 'D.Hay Petrie'. With the Old Vic from 1920, he was much acclaimed for his performances as Sly in "The Taming of the Shrew" and as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The screen saw him as eccentric personae, well-cast in period drama and in Dickensian parts (such as the malevolent debt-collector Quilp, in The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) and as the corn-chandler Uncle Pumblechook in Les grandes espérances (1946)). An inveterate scene-stealer, Petrie was able to slip with consummate ease from genre to genre and from comical to villainous.He is perhaps best remembered as The MacLaggan in Fantôme à vendre (1935) and as the evil Dr. Fosco in Meurtres à la maison noire (1940). To his ever-lasting regret, he missed out on the two parts he most coveted: that of Sancho Panza in Feodor Chaliapin Sr.'s film version of Don Quichotte (1933) and as Quasimodo in Quasimodo (1939). Petrie died suddenly, just two weeks after his 53rd birthday, from undisclosed causes.