Oliver Wilsford — Went the Day Well? Character Profile

About Oliver Wilsford

The village squire and secret German collaborator. He betrays the villagers, stabs the local constable during a storm, and attempts to let the invading German forces into a barricaded house. He is ultimately shot dead by Nora Ashton when his treachery is discovered.

Oliver Wilsford — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Leslie Banks

Appears in

Went the Day Well? (1942)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (2)

• Oliver Wilsford — Conflict Enemy — Ivy (Thora Hird)

  Oliver's betrayal conflicts with Ivy's armed resistance.

  Oliver betrays the villagers to the German force, while Ivy escapes captivity and helps defend the barricaded position.

• Oliver Wilsford — Conflict Enemy — Peggy (Elizabeth Allan)

  Oliver's collaboration places him on the opposite side from Peggy's resistance.

  Oliver is revealed as a German collaborator, while Peggy escapes captivity, arms herself, and fights the German forces.

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More characters from Went the Day Well?

• Peggy (Elizabeth Allan)
• Tom Sturry (Frank Lawton)
• Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter (Basil Sydney)
• Nora Ashton (Valerie Taylor)
• Charlie Sims (Mervyn Johns)
• Bill Purvis (Edward Rigby)
• Mrs. Collins (Muriel George)
• Lieutenant Jung (David Farrar)
• Mrs. Dolly Fraser (Marie Lohr)
• The Vicar Ashton (C. V. France)
• Jim Sturry (Norman Pierce)
• Ivy (Thora Hird)