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Reginald Denny birth name Reginald Leigh Dugmore born November 20, 1891 Richmond, Surrey England died June 16, 1967 California, USA was an English stage, film, and television actor who began his film career in 1915 and made films both in the US and England until the 1960's. He came from a theatrical family who came to the US in 1912 to appear in the stage production Quaker Girl. Denny was a well known actor in silent films and with the advent of Talkies he became a character actor and later made frequent appearances in television during the 1950's and 60's. His last role was in Batman: The Movie (1966) as Commodore Schmidlapp.

Aviation career

In the 1920's he performed as a stunt pilot and also served as a pilot in WW1 in the Royal Air Force. In the early 1930's Denny became interested in radio controlled model planes. He and his business partners formed Reginald Denny Industries and opened a model plane shop in 1934 known as Reginald Denny Hobby Shops. Denny bought a plane design from Walter Righter in 1938 and began marketing it as the Dennymite. In 1940, Denny and his partners won an Army contract for their radio controlled target drone plane. They manufactured nearly fifteen thousand drones for the army during WW2. The company was bought by Northrop in 1952. The Hobby shop business was closed in the 1960's.

Death

Reginald Denny died June 16, 1967 of cancer and is interred at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

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