
John Longden was a West Indian-born English screen, stage, and television actor. He appeared in dozens of films from 1926 to 1964, including five (Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Longden appeared in numerous television series.

A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Anna Karenina
1948 · as Gen. Serpuhousky

Young and Innocent
1937 · as Det. Insp. Kent

Jamaica Inn
1939 · as Captain Johnson (uncredited)

Blackmail
1929 · as Detective Frank Webber

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 · as Raven (uncredited)

Quatermass 2
1957 · as Chief Inspector Lomax

The Skin Game
1931 · as Charles Hornblower

The Magic Box
1952 · as Speaker in Connaught Rooms

Innocent Sinners
1958 · as Admiral

Juno and the Paycock
1930 · as Charles Bentham

The Elusive Pimpernel
1950 · as The Abbot

Q Planes
1939 · as John Peters, a Pilot

Pool of London
1951 · as DI Williams

Piccadilly
1929 · as Man from China (uncredited)

The Silver Fleet
1943 · as Jost Meertens

Elstree Calling
1930 · as Himself

Alias John Preston
1955 · as Richard Sandford