Old Photograph Jack Buchanan Scotland

Old photograph of Jack Buchanan who was born 2 April 1891 in Helensburgh, Scotland. Jack was the son of Walter John Buchanan, died 1902, and his wife, Patricia, née McWatt, died 1936. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy. After a brief attempt to follow his late father's profession as an auctioneer and a failure at acting in Glasgow, he went to London and became a music-hall comedian under the name of Chump Buchanan and first appeared on the West End in September 1912 in the comic opera The Grass Widow at the Apollo Theatre. Hardship dogged him for a while before he became famous whilst on tour in Tonight's the Night. He produced and acted in his own plays both in London and New York. Buchanan's Hollywood films included Paris, The Show of Shows, 1929, Monte Carlo, 1930, The Band Wagon, 1953. His British films included Yes, Mr Brown, Good Night, Vienna, That's a Good Girl, Brewster's Millions, Come Out of the Pantry, When Knights Were Bold, This'll Make You Whistle , Smash and Grab, The Sky's the Limit, Break the News, The Gang's All Here, The Middle Watch, Bulldog Sees It Through , As Long as They're Happy, and Josephine and Men. He made one French film, The Diary of Major Thompson. Buchanan died in London in 1957 when he was 66 years old.

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