Reginald Switz

Once a highly popular English comedian Reggie Switz, born around the mid 1880's in Yorkshire?. not much is known about this comic performer. Personality mime comic from the music halls who starred in more than 50 short comedy films in 1914-15, his most popular films was the knock-about comedies 'Winky' series directed by Cecil Birch and he was most often teamed up with husband and wife comics Lily Ward and Alf 'Scottie' Scott at the Bamforth Cine Company Ltd of Holmfirth which is based in Bradford, Yorkshire, Reggie made his film debut with 'Winky Learns a Lesson in Honesty' which became very popular with the British public and so many more where made at least one a fortnight. The First World War caused Bamforth & Co Ltd to cease film production in late 1915, it was never to return to the field of entertainment with all resources now being concentrated on postcard production.