1. William Reginald Gardiner was an English actor on the stage, in films and on television.
13 Facts About Reginald Gardiner
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Reginald Gardiner's parents wanted him to be an architect, but he insisted on a career as an actor.
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Reginald Gardiner started as a super on stage and eventually became well known on the West End stage.
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Reginald Gardiner was well known to radio listeners, and was known on the air for his amusing train and car noises.
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Reginald Gardiner started film work in crowd scenes, making his big film break in 1927 the silent film The Lodger, by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Reginald Gardiner made numerous guest appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s, including an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Fess Parker's ABC series, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, and Stanley Holloway's Our Man Higgins.
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In 1966, Reginald Gardiner was featured on Green Acres as orchestra conductor Sir Geoffrey in the first-season episode "Culture".
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Reginald Gardiner recorded a curious and eccentric classic called "Trains", which was regularly played on the 1950s British radio programme Children's Favourites.
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Reginald Gardiner first married Wyn Richmond, a British actress, but they divorced.
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Reginald Gardiner and Nadia Petrova had a son Peter Robert Reginald Gardiner, born on April 25,1949.
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Gardiner had a son out of wedlock with Jane Bagnato in Toronto, Canada: Reginald James "Jamie" Gardiner was born January 1,1939.
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Reginald Gardiner left Jane and his son after three years to marry Nadia.
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Reginald Gardiner died of a heart attack at his home in Westwood, California, on 7 July 1980.