Editing Michael Wilding (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[Leigh-on-Sea]], [[Essex]], England, and educated at [[Christ's Hospital]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Flint |first1=Peter |title=Michael Wilding, British Movie Star |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/07/09/michael-wilding-british-movie-star/535b8c0f-8fab-43c5-bf97-44cfd0bdbabb/?noredirect=on |access-date=10 April 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=9 July 1979}}</ref> Wilding left home at age 17 and trained as a commercial artist. He went to Europe when he was 20 and supported himself in Europe by doing sketches.<ref name="michael">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225449324 |title=Michael Wilding Reached The Top The Hard Way |newspaper=[[Weekly Times]] |issue=4204 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 January 1950 |access-date=29 August 2017 |page=46 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He wanted to get into designing sets for films and approached a London film studio in 1933 looking for work. They invited him to come to work as an extra.<ref name="wilding">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222140187 |title=English To The Core |newspaper=[[The Voice (Tasmanian newspaper)|The Voice]] |volume=23 |issue=34 |location=Hobart |date=26 August 1950 |access-date=29 August 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>