Stanley Morgan

Stanley Morgan was an English thriller and comedy author and actor from Liverpool who is credited with writing more than 40 works of fiction between 1968 and 2006. Morgan was born in 1929 to Thomas Morgan who managed a logistics company and his wife Annie. The Liverpool native went to the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys and then got a job on Merseyside as a bank clerk. A restless spirit, he was soon bored with his job and started traveling heading first to Southern Rhodesia and then on to Canada. During this time, he worked a range of jobs that included book-keeper on a tobacco farm, debt collector and salesman. He credits his former employee at the farm for leading him onto his career path as he was the one that sponsored his return to London to try his hand at acting. In London, He joined an amateur theatre society and was soon performing in radio plays. During the 60s he got several minor roles in British films such as “Konga” the classic low budget film, the 1964 film “Séance on a Wet Afternoon” and his most notable film “Dr. No,” where he was the casino concierge that introduced James Bond to the world. He also became a familiar voice as he got several contracts as a voice-over artist for company adverts. In 1970 a short documentary for Mullard that he voiced made the shortlist for a Bafta. It was during the long downtimes of his acting career that he began to write.