Colin Keith-Johnston

Colin Keith-Johnston MC (8 October 1896 – 3 January 1980) was a British actor.

[3] He played hero Mr. Darcy in Helen Jerome's Broadway-hit adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the Music Box Theatre in 1935.

[4] This was a notable role, the first to make Darcy a central part of the love story and to emphasize throughout the play the character's passion for and physical attraction to heroine Elizabeth Bennet.

[5] Colin married Margaret Cookson (cousin of actors Marjorie Browne and Joy Launor Heyes) and their son Hugo Keith-Johnston born in 1954 was a successful child actor who appeared in Not In Front of the Children (1968) for BBC Television with Ronald Hines and Wendy Craig.

[6] He fought in World War One as an officer in the Bedfordshire Regiment and was awarded an MC in the 1917 New Year Honours.