Aidan Harrington

Aidan Harrington was born in London, England, the older of seven children, born to the late Theodore and Anna Harrington. He was a 1946 graduate of The Latymer School and later the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1950. He began his entertainment career singing in the chorus of the historic Palace Theatre where he was discovered in 1952 by film director David Lean and his wife, the actress Ann Todd, who arranged a motion picture contract for him via London Film Productions where he made his screen debut in The Sound Barrier. He was so well received in his first professional performance that he later appeared in 10 other films that same year one of which was the costume epic Ivanhoe directed by Richard Thorpe and parred him alongside such luminaries as Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, and Elizabeth Taylor. Deemed to be one of Britian's "Stars of Tomorrow" during the mid-1950s, he later was seen in such features as Doctor In The House (1954), Dark Avenger (1955), Village of the Damned (196