- Born
- Died
- Birth nameBasil Muir Langton-Dodds
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- David Langton's father, a wine importer, loved the theatre and encouraged his son's acting ambitions. He helped him get his first job at 16 touring with a Shakespearean company, painting scenery and playing walk-on parts. His mother disapproved, thinking it wasn't a job for a respectable middle-class young man. By 1939, David had graduated to leading roles but then the war came. He joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become a major. Within four days of leaving the service, he was back in the theatre in the plays 'Fifty Fifty' and 'Seagulls Over Sorento', the latter of which ran for five years.
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- SpousesClaire Green(May 1975 - April 25, 1994) (his death)Mona Rosemary Copeman(1940 - 1966) (divorced, 3 children)
- His son, Simon, is a TV director and directed him in two episodes of 'Upstairs Downstairs'.
- He was born one day after the sinking of the "Titanic".
- He was the father of three sons, including the director Simon Langton.
- Upon his death, his remains were cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium in Putney Vale, London, England.
- He married Claire Wilson in 1975, shortly after her divorce from Hughie Green.
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