Rudall Hayward

Rudall Charles Victor Hayward was born in Wolverhampton on 4 July 1900, the son of actors in a touring company, and arrived in New Zealand as a child. A projectionist, he made himself a camera at the age of twelve, shot his first comedy in 1920 and, at the end of the twenties, twenty-three comedies with inhabitants of the towns he visited. Married in 1943 to Ramai Te Miha, he worked in England after the war, was made an MBE and died in Dunedin on 29 May 1974, while on tour.

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• CinemaRewi's Last StandRudall Hayward · 1940Cinema