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Fictional characters

For the television series, see Charters and Caldicott (TV series).

Fictional character

Charters and Caldicott started out as two supporting characters in the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes.

The pair of cricket-obsessed characters were played by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford.

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The characters were created by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. The duo became very popular and were used as recurring characters in subsequent films and in BBC Radio productions. Charters and Caldicott have also been played by other actors, and they eventually had their own BBC television series.

Radford and Wayne's appearances

In their first appearance, in the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, Charters and Caldicott are single minded cricket enthusiasts, whose only initial concern is to get back to England to see the last days of a Test match.

They proved so popular with audiences that they returned in the Gilliat-and-Lau