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After Several Years Retirement...Richard Haydn To Guest On Bewitched7 EpisodeRichard Haydn, who retired from his motion picture and stage career several years ago, plays a guest role on ABC TV’s “Bewitched,” Thursday, April 11, in an episode titled “A Majority of Two,” 18:30 9 p.m , EST).For Haydn, retirement is a sometime thing. “If you’re bornwith a little ham in you, you just can’t stay out of show business,” he explained on the set. “If I do not get into make-up and experience the excitement of working on a sound stage from time to time, I begin feeling ‘shut off.’ ”Mr. Mishimoto, the Japanese businessman in “A Majority of Two,” was a good enough reason for Haydn to leave his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and forget about retirement for a few days.“When I read the part, 1 liked the challenge of the role,” Haydn explained. “Because I am not Oriental, it is up to me to assume the attitudes of the polished. well - traveled Mishimoto, to make viewers believe that I am Japiuie.se.“On the stage in London manyyears ago I played a Chinese ina production of ‘The Letter,” and a Japanese role later in a repertory company. But theseare my only other Oriental roles. Mishimoto is literally something new for me.”Haydn first came to the United States to play a part in Noel Coward’s “Set to Music” in 1938. lie began his stage career in his native England 44 years ago, but did not make his motion picture debut until he came to the United States. He directed three films at Paramount Pictures in his early days in Hollywood, but soon realized he was a better actor than director. “I think what 1 did not like about directing was the trouble you frequentlyhave with the front office. An actor's life is simpler.”Reminiscing, Haydn said that his favorite role was in “Cluney Brown in 1947, though in recent years he has had featured parts in such motion pictures as “Mutiny on the Bounty” and“The Souit of Music.”He puts into practice. his theory about enjoying life as you live it, i.e., doing what you like to do as you go along. “Too many people live far ahead in the ‘someday’ — a day thatnever comes for most of us.”
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Kittanning Leader Times
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Apr 06, 1968
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