Harry Lavington

Although Harry Lavington's acting career spanned four decades on stage and screen, he is probably best known for a single role: that of baker and family man Ken Paget, on long-running New Zealand soap Close to Home.

Versatile Harry Lavington can always be counted on to give a good performance, and this time excelled himself with a faultless comic portrayal. A Wellington newspaper critic on Harry Lavington as Luther Billis in stage musical South Pacific, March 1968