Yvon Saxby

(b. Lewisham, Kent, 20/07/1891 – d. Cape Town, South Africa, 27/10/1950). British-born actor, broadcaster. Yvon Harry Saxby played Tom Spencer, Madge Fabian’s faithless lover in Fallen Leaves (1919), directed by Dick Cruikshanks. According to Thelma Gutsche, he came out to South Africa with the Allen Doone and Madge Fabian-Frank Cellier dramatic companies and later became a radio announcer and producer, first with the Schlesinger-owned African Broadcasting Company and later with the South African Broadcasting Corporation. He was the narrator of Joseph Albrecht and A.M. Miller’s documentary The Blue and Silver Way (1938), made for South African Airways. (FO)

Sources

Stage & Cinema, 25 January 1919

Gutsche, Thelma - The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa 1895-1940

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