Ramsay Hill

Ramsay Hill
Born	Cyril Seys Ramsay-Hill (1889-11-30)November 30, 1889 Georgetown, Guyana
Died	February 3, 1976(1976-02-03) (aged 86) Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Valhalla Memorial Park
Occupation(s)	Actor, technical advisor
Years active	1928–1961

Ramsay Hill (born Cyril Seys Ramsay-Hill; November 30, 1889 – February 3, 1976)[1] was a British radio and film actor, and a former British and Egyptian army officer, whose military experience and multilingual proficiency helped make him a much-in-demand technical advisor and dialogue coach in Hollywood.

Early life and career

Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Ramsay Hill was the child of John Ramsay-Hill and Rosalie Vansolsman.[2][3] He obtained a degree in Chemistry from Brighton Technical School in 1909,[4] and served with the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars in World War I.[5]

Speaking more than two decades after his death, actor Parley Baer—who had appeared with Ramsay Hall at least once on one of the most popular old-time radio anthology series[6]—recalled that his late colleague was "a good actor who put a lot of imagination into the parts he was given."[7] Regarding his performance as John, Prince of England in Cecil B. DeMille's The Crusades, Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph critic George Seibel wrote that, amidst the film's many romantic episodes and spectacular combat sequences, the "best acting of the spectacle" is done by Ramsay Hill and Joseph Schildkraut—as the Marquis of Montferrat—while playing a game of chess.[8]

In contrast to his film career, consisting primarily of small, often uncredited roles overshadowed by his crucial and relatively well-publicized contributions as a technical consultant,[9] Ramsay-Hill had a lengthy radio acting career including many substantial roles, some of the most notable being Roderick Usher (from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"),[10] Godfrey Ablewhite (in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone),[11] Merlin in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,[12] and the title character in the NBC University Theatre production of Eric Knight's short story "The Old General."[13]

Personal life and death

Ramsay-Hill became a naturalized United States citizen on May 23, 1952, at the age of 62.[14] He was married at least four times,[15] the second being to Edith Mary Agnes Hughes (née Maude), beginning on November 22, 1924, and continuing until their divorce on Jun 18, 1928.[16] The third marriage, commencing on December 17, 1930, was to Patsey Morris[3] (daughter of writer Gouverneur Morris[17]), with whom Ramsay-Hill had one son, John,[18] and to whom he remained married at least until February 1949, at which time it was reported that the couple resided on Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena.[19] The younger Ramsay-Hall had a brief career as a child actor on radio before committing suicide in 1957 at age 19,[20][21] reportedly due to a failed love affair.[22] By that point, Ramsay-Hill and Morris had evidently divorced, as the Los Angeles Mirror lists the deceased's parents as Cyril Ramsay-Hill and Patsy Splane.[23]

On February 3, 1976, having fallen seriously ill more than two months prior,[24] Ramsay-Hill died of undisclosed causes at the Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, survived by his wife Polly Ramsay-Hill.[5][24] His remains are interred at Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood.[5]

Radio

Date(s)	Program	Role	Notes
September 20, 1937	Lux Radio Theatre Ep. "The Outsider"	NA
October 5, 1944	Suspense Ep. "Dateline Lisbon"	Judge	[25]
October 12, 1944	Suspense Ep. "The Merry Widower"	Doctor	[25]
January 28, 1945	The Pacific Story Ep. "The Andaman Islands"	NA
June 25, 1945	Cavalcade of America Ep. "DDT"	NA
August 27, 1945	Lux Radio Theatre Ep. "Practically Yours"	NA
November 19, 1945	Lux Radio Theatre Ep. "Keys of the Kingdom"	NA
February 18, 1946	Cavalcade of America Ep. "Young Major Washington"	NA
March 11, 1946	Cavalcade of America Ep. "The Doctor With Hope in His Hands"	NA
September 2, 1946	Cavalcade of America Ep. "With Cradle and Clock"	NA
October 21, 1946	Cavalcade of America Ep. "Mr. Conyngham Sweeps the Seas"	NA
December 3, 1946	Favorite Story Ep. "Wuthering Heights"	NA
February 17, 1947	Lux Radio Theatre Ep. "Devotion"	NA
October 22, 1947	Escape Ep. "The Fall of the House of Usher"	Roderick Usher	[10]
December 1, 1947	Lux Radio Theatre Ep. "The Ghost and Mrs Muir"	NA
January 4, 1948	The Ronald Colman Show Ep. "The Phantom Rikshaw"	NA	Rudyard Kipling story, starring William Conrad and Eric Snowden[26]
February 7, 1948	Escape Ep. "The Vanishing Lady"	Hotel manager / cab driver	Alexander Woollcott story, adapted by William N. Robson[27]
March 12, 1948	Favorite Story Ep. "The Light That Failed"	Doctor	[28]
April 3, 1948	Suspense Ep. "Suspicion"	Dr. Maysbury	Dorothy L. Sayers story, adapted by Irving Ravetch, starring Sam Jaffe, Lurene Tuttle[29]
May 16, 1948	Tell It Again Ep. "A Tale of Two Cities"	NA
June 25, 1948	Favorite Story Ep. "The Moonstone"	Godfrey Ablewhite / Bharu	Adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel, narrated by Ronald Colman[11]
July 5, 1948	Let George Do It Ep. "Murder Me Twice"	Jonathan Thorpe	[30]
October 17, 1948	NBC University Theatre Ep. "The History of Mr. Polly"	Narrator	[31]
October 31, 1948	NBC University Theatre Ep. "Justice"	NA
November 21, 1948	NBC University Theatre Ep. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"	NA
December 19, 1948	Tell It Again Ep. "The Prince and the Pauper"	NA
January 23, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "The Ministry of Fear"	NA	Graham Greene's novel, adapted by Ernest Kinoy
February 13, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "Tom Jones"	Narrator
February 24, 1949	Suspense Ep. "Where There's a Will"	Hopkinson	Agatha Christie story, adapted by William Fifield[32]
February 27, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "The Heart of Midlothian"	NA
March 18, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "The Pickwick Papers"	NA
April 18, 1949	Let George Do It Ep. "The Elusive Hundred Grand"	NA
April 23, 1949	Escape Ep. "The Great Impersonation"	NA
April 24, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "The Way of All Flesh"	NA	From Samuel Butler's novel, starring Tom Conway
July 9, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"	Narrator	[33]
July 14, 1949	Escape Ep. "Drums of the Fore and Aft"	Colonel	Rudyard Kipling's story, adapted by Les Crutchfield, narrated by Ben Wright as Kipling[34]
August 6, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "The Death of a Heart"	NA
August 27, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "1984"	Narrator
September 3, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "Precious Bane"	NA
November 6, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "Dodsworth"	NA
November 20, 1949	NBC University Theatre Ep. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"	Fernando	Hemingway novel, adapted by Ernest Kinoy[35]
January 1, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "Great Expectations"	NA
January 10, 1950	Escape, ep. "Vanishing Lady"	NA
January 17, 1950	Escape, ep. "The Sure Thing"	NA
January 19, 1950	Maisie, ep. "Lord Deveridge and Lady Revere"	NA
March 12, 1950	NBC University Theatre ep. "There Is No Conversation"	Etienne	[36]
April 2, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "Mrs. Dalloway"	NA	Adaptation of Virginia Woolf novel
April 7, 1950	Escape, ep. "The Ambassador of Poker"	NA
April 30, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "Sons and Lovers"	NA
May 14, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "Prater Violet"	NA
May 24, 1950	Dangerous Assignment, ep. "Burmese Witnesses"	NA
May 28, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "Imperial Palace"	NA
May 29, 1950	The Adventures of Christopher London, ep. "Pattern for Murder"	NA
June 16, 1950	Escape, ep. "Serenade for a Cobra"	Brent	[37]
August 6, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"	Merlin	[12]
August 15, 1950	Presenting Charles Boyer, ep. "Claude De Vol's Unfinished Rhapsody"	NA
August 18, 1950	Escape, ep. "The Footprint"	NA
August 20, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "A High Wind in Jamaica"	Narrator	Richard Hughes' novel, adapted by Jane Speed, starring Anne Whitfield, Herbert Rawlinson, Dawn Bender[38]
September 10, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "Lost Horizon"	Narrator	[39]
September 17, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "Portrait in the Mirror"	NA
November 19, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "The Baron of Grogzwig"	Narrator	From Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby[40]
December 27, 1950	NBC University Theatre, ep. "The Gambler"	Croupier	[41]
January 7, 1951	Escape Ep. "Conquest"	NA
January 11, 1951	Screen Guild Players Ep. "Brief Encounter"	Stephen	Starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr[42]
February 14, 1951	NBC University Theatre, ep. "The Withered Arm"	Lodge	Thomas Hardy story, adapted by Ernest Kinoy[43]
March 17, 1951	The Man Called X Ep. "University of Leiden"	NA	Starring Herbert Marshall; other supporting players inc. Maria Palmer, Peggy Webber, Will Wright, and Harry Bartell[44]
April 22, 1951	Mr. and Mrs. Blandings, ep. "Lily Lamar" aka "The Old Friend"	NA
April 30, 1951	Star Playhouse, ep. "The Long Way Back"	Ashford	[45]
May 3, 1951	Screen Director's Playhouse, ep. "Captain of Castile"	The Marquis	[46]
June 18, 1951	Lux Radio Theatre, ep. "Edward, My Son"	NA
August 5, 1951	The New Theatre, ep. "Rebecca"	NA	Daphne du Maurier's novel, adapted by Earl Hamner, with Arnold Moss as Maxim de Winter[47]
October 14, 1951	The Silent Men, ep. "The Big Sneak"	NA
November 5, 1951	Suspense Ep. "The Trials of Thomas Shaw"	Judge File	[48]
December 31, 1951	Suspense ep. "Rogue Male"	Officer	Geoffrey Household novel adapted by Silvia Richards, starring Herbert Marshall[49]
January 25, 1952	NBC Presents: Short Story Ep. "The Hut"	Colonel Fayze	Geoffrey Household's story, adapted by Ernest Kinoy[50]
May 9, 1952	NBC Presents: Short Story Ep. "The Old General"	The General	Hill stars as title character in Eric Knight's story, with Alma Lawton, Norma Varden, and John Dodsworth[13]
September 22, 1952	Suspense Ep. "Jack Ketch"	Barkeeper	[51]
January 12, 1953	Suspense, ep. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Part II"	Mr. Datchery	[52]
May 16, 1953	Space Patrol, ep. "Secret of Sub–Level 7"	NA
July 18, 1953	Space Patrol, ep. no. 42	NA
March 22, 1955	Suspense Ep. "The Cellar"	Mr. Forepaugh	[53]
May 17, 1955	Suspense Ep. "Lili and the Colonel"	Colonel Julian Abernathy	Written by John Dehner, co-starring Hill and Paula Winslowe[54]
November 15, 1955	Suspense Ep. "Once a Murderer"	Judge File	[55]
October 9, 1956	Suspense Ep. "The Digger"	Carton	[56]
October 26, 1956	The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial Ep. "De Santre Affair" aka "The Fatal Charm"	Doctor	[57]
February 10, 1957	Suspense Ep. "Door of Gold"	Dr. Clayton	[58]
April 7, 1957	Suspense Ep. "Vanishing Lady"	Jacques the coachman / Waiter	[59]
October 5, 1958	Suspense Ep. "The Man Who Won the War"	Ainsley / Lieutenant	Robert Buckner story adapted by William N. Robson, starring Herbert Marshall[60]
February 22, 1959	Suspense Ep. "Star Over Hong Kong"	Captain	[61]

Film and television

Acting

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1928	Moderne Piraten	James Morton, Marine-Offizier	as Cyril de Ramsay
1931	Dishonored	Grinning Officer	Uncredited
1932	Crooner	Nightclub Patron	Uncredited
1932	Washington Merry-Go-Round	Hotel Desk Clerk	Uncredited
1934	Riptide	Sir Geoffrey Mapel	Uncredited
1934	The World Moves On	British Officer	Uncredited
1934	Down to Their Last Yacht	Geoffrey Colt-Stratton, Jr.	Uncredited
1934	We Live Again	Dancing Russian Officer	Uncredited
1935	L'Homme des Folies Bergère	Christian de Guntherson
1935	Mad Love	Actor as 'Duke'	Uncredited
1935	The Crusades	John - Prince of England
1935	The Last Outpost	Captain	Uncredited
1935	The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo	Usher	Uncredited
1935	A Tale of Two Cities	Aristocrat	Uncredited
1936	Everybody's Old Man	Earl of Spearford
1936	House of Secrets	Police Inspector	Uncredited
1937	Espionage	Kronsky Aide	Uncredited
1937	Old Louisiana	James Madison
1937	Café Metropole	Gambler	Uncredited
1937	Parnell	House of Commons Member	Uncredited
1937	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Conspirator	Uncredited
1937	The Firefly	French Officer	Uncredited
1937	Conquest	Bertrand	Uncredited
1937	Live, Love and Learn	First Gallery Salesman	Uncredited
1937	Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo	Casino Patron	Uncredited
1938	Lord Jeff	Jewelry Clerk	Uncredited
1938	Marie Antoinette	Major Domo	Uncredited
1947	The Exile	Cavalier Officer	as C.S. Ramsey-Hill
1947	Forever Amber	Major-Domo	Uncredited
1947	If Winter Comes	Chemin-de-Fer Player	Uncredited
1948	Letter from an Unknown Woman	Colonel Steindorf	Uncredited
1949	The Fighting O'Flynn	British Officer	Uncredited
1949	Oboler Comedy Theater (TV) Ep. "Love, Love, Love"	Air Officer
1951	The Prince Who Was a Thief	Hedjah	Uncredited
1951	When Worlds Collide	French U.N. Representative	Uncredited
1951	The Last Half Hour: The Mayerling Story (TV movie)	Minister of State
1952	The Unexpected (TV) Ep. "The Perfect Mrs. Clesney"	Partner	as Ramsey Hill
1952	Caribbean	Townsend
1952	The Iron Mistress	Malot	Uncredited
1952	Bwana Devil	Major Parkhurst
1952	Battles of Chief Pontiac	Gen. Sir Jeffrey Amherst	as Ramsey Hill
1953	Rogue's March	British Colonel	Uncredited
1953	Space Patrol (TV) Ep. "The Stolen Evidence"	Governor Marin
1953	The Golden Blade	Beggar	Uncredited
1953	King of the Khyber Rifles	Cavalry Officer	Uncredited
1954	Trader Tom of the China Seas	British Colonel	as Ramsey Hill
1954	The Black Shield of Falworth	Sir Charles	Uncredited
1954	Bengal Brigade	Maj. Jennings	Uncredited
1955	Panther Girl of the Kongo	Stanton
1955	The Whistler Ep. "Borrowed Byline"	NA
1955	East of Eden	English officer	Uncredited
1955	Damon Runyon Theater Ep. "A Light in France"	NA
1955	The King's Thief	Lord	Uncredited
1955	Screen Director's Playhouse Ep. "The Titanic Incident"	Mr. Ogden
1956	I Love Lucy (TV) Ep. "Paris at Last"	Police Sgt.
1956	Telephone Time (TV) Ep. "The Man Who Believed in Fairy Tales"	NA
1956	The Ten Commandments	Korah
1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie (TV) Ep. "The Return of the Alcibiade"	Jean Baptiste Plachel
1957	The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna	Martine
1960	Midnight Lace	Blind Man	Uncredited
1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	Television Announcer, Labrador (voice)
1961	Susan Slade	John Brecker	Uncredited
1964	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Lord Simon Pimdale	Uncredited[5][62]

Additional crew

Year	Title	Job	Notes
1938	Suez	technical advisor	Aside from maintaining regional and period authenticity,[63] advice in this instance included teaching supporting actor J. Edward Bromberg Arabic for his role as Prince Said.[64]
1939	The Sun Never Sets	technical advisor	as Major C.S. Ramsay-Hill[65][66]
1940	Swiss Family Robinson	technical advisor	as Major C.S. Ramsay-Hill[67]
1942	Cairo	technical advisor	as Major C. S. Ramsay-Hill[68]
1943	Assignment in Brittany	technical advisor for commando sequence	as Major Ramsey-Hill[69][68]
1943	Forever and a Day	technical advisor	Uncredited[70]
1943	Madame Curie	technical director	Uncredited[71]
1944	The White Cliffs of Dover	technical advisor	as Major Cyrl Seys Ramsay-Hill [sic][72]
1946	Temptation	technical direction	as C.S. Ramsay-Hill[73][74]
1947	Lured	technical advisor	Uncredited[75]
1951	The Prince Who Was a Thief	technical adviser	as C.S. Ramsay-Hill[76]
1952	Son of Ali Baba	equestrian technical advisor	Uncredited[77]
1952	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	technical advisor	Uncredited[78]
1952	Bwana Devil	technical advisor	as Major Ramsay Hill[79]
1953	King of the Khyber Rifles	technical advisor	^[citation needed]
1954	Tanganyika	technical advisor	Uncredited[80]
1954	Bengal Brigade	technical advisor	Uncredited[81]
1956	Back from Eternity	dialogue coach	Uncredited[82]

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77. "Five Experts on 'Ali'". The Hollywood Reporter. 13 August 1951. p. 4. ProQuest 2338128757. Five technical experts have been assigned by U-I on 'Son of Ali Baba.' They include Fred Cavens, fencing; Matilda Blitzenburger, archery; Ramsay Hill, equestrian; Otto Gumbile, Persian music; Hal Belfer, Persian dancing.
78. "Snows of Kilimanjaro' Now a Movie: Gregory Peck Stars In Hemingway Story". New York Herald Tribune. 14 September 1952. p. D3. ProQuest 1313651843. The movie raised some unusual problems. When the witch-doctor turns to Gregory Peck in the closing sequences, for instance, and remarks, 'Mimi nafanya dawa kali sana ka Bwana mkubwa,' he is speaking excellent Swahili. To keep the witch-doctor and other actors portraying African 'natives' linguistically correct, the studio hired Maj. Ramsay Hill, an expert on the Dark Continent.
79. "Studio Briefs". Los Angeles Times. June 25, 1952. p. 17.
80. McClay, Howard (April 13, 1954). "Foreign Locations Pay Off, Says Director Robson; Safari So Good". New York Daily News.
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82. Carroll, Harrison (March 23, 1956). "Behind the Scenes in Hollywood". Greensburg Daily News. p. 8.

Further reading

• "When Patsy and the Lonely Major Were Marooned on the Island of Love". Minneapolis Star Tribune. February 8, 1931. p. 58.
• "An Accuser". New York Daily News. p. 25C.

External links

• Ramsay Hill at IMDb
• Ramsay Hill at Old Time Radio Researchers
• John Ramsay Hill at Old Time Radio Researchers