Frederick Worlock
Born: 1886-12-14 in London, England, UK
Died: 1973-08-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
Frederick Worlock was a British-American actor. He is known for his work in various films during the 1940s and 1950s, and as the voice of Horace in One Hundred and One Dalmatians. On stage, he made his début in 1906 in Henry V in Bristol and acted in four productions in London before moving to the United States in the 1920s, where he appeared in Broadway productions between 1923 and 1954. From 1938 to 1966, Worlock appeared as a supporting actor in films including Man Hunt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, How Green Was My Valley, The Imperfect Lady, Singapore, The Lone Wolf in London, Love from a Stranger, Ruthless, Joan of Arc, Spartacus, One Hundred and One Dalmatians (voice-over), and Spinout. He appeared in a number of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone in the 1940s. The diginfied-looking British actor often portrayed "professorial roles, some benign, some villainous". Worlock died from cerebral ischemia in 1973, at the age of 86.
Filmography
1982
- Disney's Halloween Treat as Horace (voice) (archive footage)
1968
- Elizabeth the Queen as Lord Burghley
1966
- Spinout as Blodgett
1965
- Strange Bedfellows as Mr. Martindale (Lawyer) (uncredited)
1963
- The Invincible Mr. Disraeli as Lord Derby
1962
- The Notorious Landlady as Elderly Colonel (uncredited)
1961
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians as Horace / Inspector Craven (voice)
1960
- Spartacus as Laelius
1957
- Perry Mason as Judge
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Gus Harrison
- MGM Parade
1953
- King Lear as Earl of Gloucester
1949
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as Lord Mayor (uncredited)
1948
- Studio One
- Joan of Arc as Duke of Bedford, England's Regent
- Johnny Belinda as Prosecutor (uncredited)
- A Woman's Vengeance as Judge (uncredited)
- Ruthless as J. Norton Sims
1947
- The Macomber Affair as Clerk
- A Double Life as Actor in "Othello"
- Forever Amber
- Singapore as Cadum
- Love from a Stranger as Inspector Hobday
- Last of the Redmen as Gen. Webb
1946
- Terror by Night as Prof. William Kilbane
- Dressed to Kill as Colonel Cavanaugh
- The Locket as Doctor (uncredited)
- She-Wolf of London as Park Patrol Constable-in-Charge Ernie Hobbs
- The Imperfect Lady as Henderson
1945
- The Woman in Green as Dr. Onslow
- Pursuit to Algiers as Prime Minister
- Captain Kidd as Landers - Newgate Prison Governor (uncredited)
- Hangover Square as Supt. Clay (uncredited)
- The Fatal Witness as Sir Humphrey Mong
- Scotland Yard Investigator as John Brent
1944
1943
- Jane Eyre as Sam--Waiter at Inn
- Sahara as Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
- Air Raid Wardens as Otto
- Madame Curie as Businessman (uncredited)
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death as Geoffrey Musgrave
- Passport to Suez as Sir Roger Wembley
- Secret Service In Darkest Africa as Sir James Langley
- London Blackout Murders as Eugene Caldwell (as Frederic Worlock)
- The Mantrap as Patrick Berwick
- Appointment in Berlin as Von Ritter - Ministry of Information (uncredited)
1942
- The Black Swan as Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
- Keep 'Em Sailing as Hugo Stregel
- Pacific Rendezvous as Dr. Jackwin
- Captains of the Clouds as President of Court Martial
- Eagle Squadron as Grenfall
- Madero of Mexico as Aristocratic Landowner (uncredited)
1941
- How Green Was My Valley as Dr. Richards
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Heath
- Man Hunt as Lord Gerald Risborough
- Rage in Heaven as Solicitor-General
- International Lady as Sir Henry
- A Yank in the R.A.F. as Canadian Major
1940
- The Sea Hawk as Darnell
- Northwest Passage as Sir William Johnson
- Strange Cargo as Grideau, the Prison Head
- Murder Over New York as Insp. Hugh Drake
- South of Suez as Defense Counsel
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Communist President
- The Earl of Chicago as Lord Elfie (uncredited)
- Moon Over Burma as Stephen Harmon
- Hudson's Bay as English Governor
1939
- Lady of the Tropics as Colonel Demassey
- Balalaika as Ramensky
- Miracles for Sale as Dr. Cesar Sabbatt