Holmes Herbert

Born: 1882-07-30 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Died: 1956-12-26

Known For: Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952. Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s. Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955. He died in 1956 at age 74.

Filmography

1952

The Wild North as Magistrate (uncredited)
At Sword's Point
The Brigand as Archbishop

1951

Anne of the Indies as English Sea Captain
The Son of Dr. Jekyll as Constable (uncredited)
The Unknown Man as (uncredited)

1950

The Iroquois Trail as Gen. Johnson

1949

Canadian Pacific as Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)
Barbary Pirate as Thomas Jefferson
The Lost Tribe as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Post Office Investigator as James Seeley
South of St. Louis

1948

Sorry, Wrong Number as Wilkins (uncredited)
Johnny Belinda as Judge (uncredited)
The Wreck of the Hesperus as Pastor West
A Woman's Vengeance as Warder (uncredited)
Family Honeymoon as Rev. Miller (uncredited)
The Swordsman as Lord Glowan
Jungle Jim as Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden

1947

Ivy as Mulloy (uncredited)
Singapore as Rev. Barnes
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back as Inspector McIver
The Ghost Goes Wild as Judge
Over the Santa Fe Trail as Doc Henderson
Bulldog Drummond at Bay as Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar

1946

Dressed to Kill as Ebenezer Crabtree
Three Strangers as Sir Robert (uncredited)
The Verdict as Sir William Dawson
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy as Dr. White, Minister

1945

The House of Fear as Alan Cosgrave
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Confidential Agent as Lord Benditch
Swingin' on a Rainbow as Butler (uncredited)
Jealousy as Melvyn Russell

1944

The Uninvited as Charlie Jessup
The Mummy's Curse as Dr. Cooper
The Pearl of Death as James Goodram, courier
Enter Arsène Lupin as Jobson
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay as Captain (uncredited)
The Unwritten Code as McDowell (uncredited)

1943

Sherlock Holmes in Washington as Mr. Ahrens
Calling Dr. Death as Bryant, the Butler
Corvette K-225 as Commodore Ramsay
Two Tickets to London as Kilgallen

1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon as Sir Reginald
The Ghost of Frankenstein as Magistrate
This Above All as Dr. Mathias
Invisible Agent as Sir Alfred Spencer
Lady in a Jam as Man at Auction (uncredited)
The Undying Monster as Chief Constable (uncredited)
Danger in the Pacific as Commissioner
Strictly in the Groove as Commissioner

1941

Man Hunt as Saul Farnsworthy

1940

Foreign Correspondent as Asst. Commissioner
The Letter as Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
Boom Town as Doctor (uncredited)
Phantom Raiders as Sir Edward
The Earl of Chicago as Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited)
An Angel from Texas as Second Banker
South of Suez as Simpson
A Dispatch from Reuters as Member of Parliament (uncredited)

1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as Justice of the Court
The Little Princess as Doctor
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex as Majordomo (uncredited)
Juarez as Marshal Randon (uncredited)
Intermezzo: A Love Story as Doctor (Uncredited)
The Sun Never Sets as Colonial Official
Tower of London as Councilman (uncredited)
British Intelligence as Arthur Bennett
Stanley and Livingstone as Frederick Holcomb
Rulers of the Sea as Member of Naval Company (Uncredited)
The House of Fear as Minor Role
The Mystery of Mr. Wong as Prof. Ed Janney
Wolf Call as J.L. Winton
Hidden Power as Dr. Morley
We Are Not Alone as Police Inspector
Mr. Moto's Last Warning as Bentham (uncredited)
Trapped in the Sky as Fielding
Everything Happens at Night as Featherstone
20,000 Men a Year as Dean Norris
Mystery of the White Room as Hospital Administrator
Bad Boy as Mr. McNeil

1938

Marie Antoinette as Herald (uncredited)
The Buccaneer as Captain McWilliams
Kidnapped as Judge
The Black Doll as Dr. Giddings
Say It in French as Richard Carrington Sr.
Here's Flash Casey as Maj. Addison

1937

Slave Ship as Commander
The Prince and the Pauper as First Doctor
The Man Without a Country as Aaron Burr
The Thirteenth Chair as Governor Sir Roscoe Crosby
The Girl Said No as Charles Dillon (scenes deleted)

1936

Wife vs. Secretary as Frawley (uncredited)
Lloyd's of London as Spokesman
Champagne Charlie as Captain Dell
Brilliant Marriage as Mr. Rodney Allison
The White Angel as War Minister (uncredited)
15 Maiden Lane as Harold Anderson
The Gentleman from Louisiana as Chief Steward
The House of Secrets as Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary

1935

Captain Blood as Capt. Gardner
Mark of the Vampire as Sir Karell Borotyn
Cardinal Richelieu as Noble
Accent on Youth as Frank Galloway
One in a Million as Donald Cabot Sr.

1934

The House of Rothschild as Rowerth
The Pursuit of Happiness as Gen. Sir Henry Clinton
The Curtain Falls as John Scorsby
Beloved as Lord Landslake
Sons of Steel as Curtis Chadburne

1933

The Invisible Man as Chief of Police
Mystery of the Wax Museum as Dr. Rasmussen

1932

Miss Pinkerton as Arthur Glenn
Sister to Judas as Bruce Rogers
Central Park as Benefit Emcee (uncredited)
Shop Angel as James Walton Kennedy

1931

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. John Lanyon
Broadminded as John J. Hackett Sr.
Daughter of the Dragon as Sir John Petrie
Chances as Maj. Bradford
The Hot Heiress as Mr. Hunter
The Single Sin as Roger Van Dorn

1930

The Ship from Shanghai as Paul Thorpe

1929

Madame X as Noel
The Kiss as Lassalle
Careers as Carouge
Say It with Songs as Dr. Robert Merrill
Untamed as Howard Presley
The Thirteenth Chair as Sir Roscoe Crosby
The Careless Age as Sir John
The Charlatan as Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
Her Private Life as Rudolph Solomon

1928

The Terror as Goodman
Through the Breakers as Eustis Hobbs
The Sporting Age as James Driscoll
On Trial as Gerald Trask
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Henry Spoffard
Their Hour as Cora's Father

1927

One Increasing Purpose as Charles Paris
When a Man Loves as Jean Tiberge
Mr. Wu as Mr. Gregory
Slaves of Beauty as Leonard Jones
East Side, West Side as Gilbert Van Horn
The Silver Slave as Tom Richards
The Heart of Salome as Sir Humphrey
Lovers as Milton
The Gay Retreat as Charles Wright

1926

The Honeymoon Express as Jim Donaldson
Josselyn's Wife as Thomas Josselyn
The Fire Brigade as James Corwin

1925

The Wanderer as Prophet
A Woman of the World as Richard Granger
Up the Ladder as Robert Newhall
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Wreckage as Stuart Ames
Wildfire as Garrison

1924

The Enchanted Cottage as Major Hillgrove
Sinners in Heaven as Hugh Rochedale
Love's Wilderness as David Tennant
Her Own Free Will as Peter Craddock
Another Scandal as Pelham Franklin
I Will Repay as Sir Percy Blakeney
Week End Husbands as William Randall

1923

Toilers of the Sea as Sandro

1922

Divorce Coupons as Roland Bland
A Stage Romance as Prince of Wales
Any Wife as Philip Gray
Moonshine Valley as Dr. Martin
A Woman's Woman as John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Evidence as Judge Rowland

1921

Her Lord and Master as R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning
The Family Closet as Alfred Dinsmore
The Wild Goose as Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Heedless Moths as The Sculptor

1920

My Lady's Garter as Henry Van Derp, aka The Hawk
On with the Dance
The Right to Love as Lord Falkland
Black Is White as Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Lady Rose's Daughter as Jacob Delafield
Dead Men Tell No Tales as Squire John Rattray
His House in Order as Filmer Jesson
The Truth About Husbands as Dustan Renshaw

1919

The Divorcee as Sir Paradine Fuldes
Greater Than Love as James Bruton
The White Heather as Lord Angus Cameron
Other Men's Wives as Fenwick Flint
The Market of Souls as Temple Bane
The Rough Neck as A Half-Breed Indian
The ABC of Love as Harry Bryant

1918

A Doll's House as Thorvald Helmar
The Death Dance as Arnold Maitland

1917

The Man Without a Country as Lt. Philip Nolan
Her Life and His as Ralph Howard

1915

His Wife as John Dennys
The Fisherwoman as The Son