Michael Darbyshire
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| Born | 1917 |
| Died | 1979-11-20 |
Michael Darbyshire (1917 - 20 November 1979) was a British television actor most famous for his portrayal of Hubert Davenport, the Victorian ghost in the long-running BBC TV children's comedy series Rentaghost. The series continued after Darbyshire's death. Darbyshire also played one of the eccentric inventors in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and appeared in the musical Pickwick (1965), and in the films Vengeance Is Mine (1949), The Slipper and the Rose (1976) and Lock Up Your Daughters (1969).
Darbyshire died in 1979 aged 62 years.
