British actor and designer, in Canada from 1920. He was stage manager and designer at Hart House Theatre, 1926 to March 1928, designed sets
and costumes for Jack Arthur at the Uptown Theatre on Yonge Street, Toronto, and toured Canada as stage manager and designer with the Maurice Colbourne Company. He acted in films and on the British stage and in films under the name of Launce Maraschal, also writing radio and television scripts.