Wallas Eaton
Date of birth: 1917-02-18
Place of birth: Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Wallace Eaton, Wallis Eaton
Biography
Wallas Eaton (18 February 1917 – 3 November 1995) was an English film, radio, television and theatre actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his voice roles between 1949 and 1960 in the BBC radio-comedy serial Take It from Here. Eaton's favourite pastime was sailing, and he made a trip to Australia in 1975 to pursue his interest, after which he settled there permanently. He featured in the Australian soap The Young Doctors in 1979 as Roland Perry, a rich friend of principal character Ada Simmonds. He also made a few appearances in later episodes of the television drama serial A Country Practice.
Movie Credits
Let's Go Crazy
1951-05-01
Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969-03-29
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Around the World in 80 Days
1988-11-25
English Lord Phileas Fogg has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, he h
Do Be Careful Boys
1964-01-01
A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns t
Nicholas Nickleby
1985-03-16
One twenty-year old boy, driven by what is right and just, overcomes the forces of unconscionable gr
Oliver Twist
1982-12-15
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv
Operation Cupid
1960-04-01
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a luc
Robin Hood
1985-01-01
With good King Richard away at war, the greedy Sheriff has forced the residents of Nottingham to pay
Horror of Darkness
1965-03-10
A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an un
Wind in the Willows
1988-12-12
Based on Kenneth Grahame's classic children's yarn, this charming animated tale follows four colorfu
The Old Curiosity Shop
1984-01-01
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of d
The Last of the Mohicans
1987-07-31
An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French and In
Treasure Island
1987-01-01
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of
Mad Dog Morgan
1976-07-09
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the
O Lucky Man!
1973-03-25
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to
Plunge Into Darkness
1978-01-01
An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murde
Inspector Clouseau
1968-07-19
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland
The Man in the Iron Mask
1985-12-31
Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current co
This Sporting Life
1963-02-07
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a
Springtime for Samantha
1965-05-21
Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.
Deathcheaters
1976-12-16
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a to
Demolition
1979-06-21
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-
The Last Wave
1977-12-15
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learn
A Clean Sweep
1958-01-01
George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never
A Man's Affair
1949-01-01
A miner, played by Scottish singer Hamish Menzies, meets a holidaying secretary on the Kent coast an
Two-Way Stretch
1960-12-20
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a dar
Isadora
1968-09-14
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal
Adventure in the Hopfields
1954-06-06
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it
Kidnapped
1986-06-21
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Minnamurra
1989-08-17
Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fa
Deadline
1982-01-01
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the
Goodbye Paradise
1983-07-21
The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael
Chelsea Story
1951-07-30
Fletcher Gilchrist offers £100 to anyone who will break into a house. Journalist Mike Harvey accepts