Character
Like David Niven, Buchanan was renowned for his portrayal of the quintessential Englishman on stage and screen, despite being a Scot. Buchanan also provided financial backing for another Scot, John Logie Baird, in Logie's work to develop mechanical television. Buchanan was legendary among his colleagues for his financial generosity to less prosperous actors and chorus performers. Sandy Wilson recalled that, each year during the running of the annual Grand National horse race, Buchanan would cancel that day's performance of his current musical and would charter an excursion train to the racetrack and back, supplying meals for the entire cast and crew of his show ... and even giving them £5 each for a "flutter" on the horse of their choice!
Buchanan died in London in 1957 from spinal cancer, when he was 66 years old.
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