Danny Green (actor)

{{Short description|English actor (1903–1973)}}

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| name = Danny Green

| image = Actor Danny Green.jpg

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| caption = Green in The Ladykillers (1955)

| birth_date = {{birth-date|26 May 1903}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{date of death and age|1973|26 May 1903}}

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| other_names =

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1929–1969

}}

Danny Green (26 May 1903 – 1973McFarlane, Brian (28 February 2014). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. p. 305; {{ISBN|9781526111968}}) was an English character actor. He was best known for his role as the slow-witted ex-boxer "One-Round" Lawson in The Ladykillers.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba25c6673|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531043943/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba25c6673|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 May 2017|title=Danny Green}}

He worked regularly in film, television and on the stage, including playing comic gangsters in the original London productions of Guys and Dolls (1953) and Do Re Mi (1961).{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/sk6/danny-green|title=Danny Green - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/cast.php?showid=4931|title=Guys and Dolls Original West End Cast - 1953 West End|website=broadwayworld.com}}

One of his last roles was as Lord Surrey in the Randal and Hopkirk episode Just for the Record in 1969.{{cite web|url=http://aveleyman.com/TVEpisode.aspx?FilmID=282&Episode=8|title=Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): S1|website=aveleyman.com}}