Ivor Barnard

Ivor Barnard was an English stage, radio and film actor. He was an original member of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where he was a notable Shylock and Caliban. He played the Water Rat in the first London production of A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall. In 1929 he appeared as Blanquet, in Bird in Hand at the Morosco Theatre in New York] after a successful run in London's West End. The part had been specially written for him by John Drinkwater.