Robert Burnard (actor)

Raoul Sabine "Robert" Burnard (c. 1902 – 8 November 1950) was an English stage and radio actor best known for starring in several Crawford Productions radio plays in Australia.

[1] Burnard attended Haileybury College and Cambridge University, after which he worked with the diplomatic corps in China, Persia, and Japan.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he co-starred with Marie Tempest and Maurice Moscovitch in the West End theatre.

He later went to Hollywood and served as an assistant director to Eric von Stroheim.

[1] Another character he played was Sylvanus Haythorpe, from Old English by John Galsworthy.