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Payn moved with his family to England when he was about ten years old (circa 1928). He became a boy soprano in concerts and in boy's choirs. He made his first stage appearance at thirteen at the Palladium , as "Curly" in '' Peter Pan ''. At the age of fourteen he appeared in Noel Coward's revue '' Words And Music ''.

In 1945, Coward wrote a leading role in '' Sigh No More '' specifically for Payn.

Payn appeared nearly continuously in the West End for the next twenty years of his life. He appeared on '', and in films including '' The Italian Job ''.

Payn died at the couple's home in Switzerland , aged 87 on 4 November , 2005 .


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After Coward's death in 1973, with Sheridan Morley and Cole Lesley, Payn wrote ''Noel Coward and His Friends'' (1979) and was one of the editors of ''The Noel Coward Diaries'' that he dedicated to Lesley. Graham Payn wrote his own autobiography in 1994.


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