Peter Lawford

b. Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen, 7 September 1923, London, England, d. 24 December 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA. The son of actor Sidney Lawford, Peter made his screen debut in Poor Old Bill (1931). In Hollywood in 1938 he played a small role in Lord Jeff and in 1942/3 appeared in more than 20 films. From 1944 he had a succession of supporting roles in musicals including Two Sisters From Boston (1946, with June Allyson and Kathryn Grayson) and It Happened In Brooklyn (1947, starring Frank Sinatra and Grayson and in which Lawford sang Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's ‘Whose Baby ...