Claud Allister
Born: 1888-08-02 in London, England, UK
Died: 1970-07-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Claud Allister (3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor. After his education at Felsted, in Essex, he appeared in 74 films between 1929 and 1955. He was born William Claud Michael Palmer in London, England and died in Santa Barbara, California. His interment was located in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He began his career as a stockbroker's clerk but gave it up and made his stage debut in 1910. He toured England playing minor parts till the war started. He served in WWI and in 1924 went to America to act on the stage. In 1929 he made his film debut where he featured in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claud Allister, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2004
- Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 as Sir Giles (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1955
- Meet the Governor as Cyril
1954
- The Black Shield of Falworth as Sir George
1953
- Kiss Me Kate as Paul
1952
- Hong Kong as Hotel Manager
1949
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad as Rat (voice)
- The Wind in the Willows as Rat (voice)
1948
- The First Gentleman as Manservant
- Quartet as 1st. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
1946
- Gaiety George as Archie
1945
- Don Chicago as Lord Piccadilly
- Kiss the Bride Goodbye as Adolphus Pickering
1944
- The Hundred Pound Window as Hon. Freddie
1941
- The Reluctant Dragon as Sir Giles (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
- A Yank in the R.A.F. as Officer-Motorist (uncredited)
- Charley's Aunt as Spectator
- Confirm or Deny as William (scenes deleted)
1940
- Pride and Prejudice as Mr. Beck
- Lillian Russell as Arthur Sullivan
1939
- Captain Fury as Suco
1938
- Storm Over Bengal as Redding
- Blond Cheat as Lord Basil Sheldon (uncredited)
- Kentucky Moonshine as Lord Boffingwell (uncredited)
- Arrest Bulldog Drummond as Sir Basil Leghorne
- Men Are Such Fools as Rudolf
1937
- The Awful Truth as Lord Fabian (uncredited)
- Danger – Love at Work as Gun salesman
- Bulldog Drummond at Bay as Algy Longworth
- Oh, What a Knight!
- Let's Make a Night of It as Monty
1936
- Dracula's Daughter as Sir Aubrey
- Lady Luck as Briggs
- Three Live Ghosts as Lord 'Spoofy' Brockton
1935
- The Dark Angel as Lawrence Bidley
- Every Night at Eight as Mr. Vernon (uncredited)
1934
- The Private Life of Don Juan as The Duke, as Dukes Go
- The Lady Is Willing as Brevin
- The Return of Bulldog Drummond as Algy Longworth
- Those Were the Days as Capt. Horace Vale
1933
- The Private Life of Henry VIII as Cornell
- The Medicine Man as Hon. Freddie Wiltshire
- Excess Baggage as Colonel Murgatroyd R.S.V.P.
- Sleeping Car as Baron Delande
1932
- The Unexpected Father as Claude
- The Midshipmaid as Chinley
- Diamond Cut Diamond as Joe Fragson
- Two White Arms as Dr. Biggash
- The Return of Raffles as Bunny
1931
- Platinum Blonde as Dawson - the Valet
- On the Loose as Mr. Loder's friend
- The Sea Ghost as Percy Atwater
- Captain Applejack as John Jason
- I Like Your Nerve as Archie Lester
- Meet the Wife as Victor Staunton
1930
- The Florodora Girl as Lord Rumblesham
- Reaching for the Moon as Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
- Slightly Scarlet as Albert Hawkins
- Such Men Are Dangerous as Fred Wyndham
- Murder Will Out as Alan Fitzhugh
- The Czar of Broadway
- In the Next Room as Parks (butler)
- Monte Carlo as Prince Otto von Liebenheim
- Ladies Love Brutes as Tailor (uncredited)
1929
- Charming Sinners as Gregson
- Bulldog Drummond as Algy Longworth