Hayford Hobbs

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Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 - 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film The Third Generation and appeared in his last film High Treason in 1929. The following year he directed his first film, a documentary about London. [1]

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  1. "Hayford Hobbs | BFI". ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2016.