Halliwell Hobbes
Born: 1877-11-16 in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Died: 1962-02-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor. His stage debut was in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats. Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid-1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing there until late 1955. By 1950 he had moved to American television in the diverse playhouse format.
Filmography
1956
- Miracle in the Rain as Ely B. Windgate
1949
- That Forsyte Woman as Nicholas Forsyte
1948
- You Gotta Stay Happy as Martin
- The Black Arrow as Bishop of Tisbury
1947
- If Winter Comes as The Coroner
- Hollywood Wonderland as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
1946
- Canyon Passage as Clenchfield
1944
- Gaslight as Mr. Muffin
- Mr. Skeffington as Soames (uncredited)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as Cleghorn, the butler
- Casanova Brown as Charles, the Butler
- Information Please as Lt Eberhard
1943
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death as Alfred Brunton, the butler
- Forever and a Day as Doctor
- His Butler's Sister as Willebrandt
- Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1942
- To Be or Not to Be as Gen. Armstrong
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Purdy
- The Undying Monster as Walton the Butler
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley as Bennett
- Journey for Margaret as Mr. Barrie
1941
- That Hamilton Woman as Rev. Nelson
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Sisk
- Sunny as Johnson
1940
- Waterloo Bridge as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
- The Sea Hawk as Astronomer
- Lady with Red Hair as Divorce Judge (uncredited)
- The Earl of Chicago as Lord Chancellor
- Third Finger, Left Hand as Burton
1939
- Nurse Edith Cavell as British Chaplain
- The Hardys Ride High as Dobbs
- Naughty but Nice as Dean Burton, Winfield College
- Tell No Tales as Dr. Lovelake
- The Light That Failed as Doctor
- Remember? as Butler Williams
- Pacific Liner as Captain Mathews
1938
- You Can't Take It with You as DePinna
- A Christmas Carol as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
- The Jury's Secret as John, Butler
- Bulldog Drummond's Peril as Prof. Bernard Goodman
- Kidnapped as Dominie Campbell
- Storm Over Bengal as Sir John Galt
- Service de Luxe as Butler
1937
- The Prince and the Pauper as Archbishop
- Fit for a King as Count Strunsky
- Maid of Salem as Jeremiah
- Parnell as W.H. Smith
- Varsity Show as Dean Meredith
1936
- Dracula's Daughter as Hawkins
- Mary of Scotland as Man (uncredited)
- The White Angel as Lord Raglan
- The Story of Louis Pasteur as Dr. Lister
- Give Me Your Heart as Oliver Warren
- Here Comes Trouble as Professor Howard
- Love Letters of a Star as Hotchkiss
- Spendthrift as Beuhl - the Butler
- Hearts Divided as Cambaceres
- Changing of the Guard as Grandfather, the Colonel
1935
- Captain Blood as Lord Sunderland (uncredited)
- Folies Bergère de Paris as Monsieur Paulet
- Charlie Chan in Shanghai as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
- The Right to Live as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
- Millions in the Air as Theodore
- Vanessa: Her Love Story as Father of Little Girl
- Cardinal Richelieu as Father Joseph
- Jalna as Ernest Whiteoaks
1934
- We Live Again as Official
- Riptide as Bollard
- She Was a Lady as George Dane
- British Agent as Sir Walter Carrister
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back as First Bobby
- Father Brown, Detective as Sir Leopold Fischer
- Double Door as Mr. Chase
- Mandalay as Col. Dawson Ames
- The Key as General C.O. Furlong
- Menace as Skinner
1933
- Lady for a Day as Butler
- A Study in Scarlet as Malcolm Dearing
- Midnight Mary as Churchill
- If I Were Free as Burford-Gordon's butler
- I Am Suzanne! as Dr. Lorenzo
- Captured! as British Major General
- The Masquerader as Brock
- Looking Forward as Mr. James Felton
- Should Ladies Behave as Louis
1932
- Payment Deferred as A Prospective Tenant
- Lovers Courageous as Mr. Smith
- 6 Hours to Live as Baron Emil von Sturm
- Cynara as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
- Man About Town as Hilton
- Devil's Lottery as Lord Litchfield
- Love Affair as Kibbee
- The Menace as Phillips
- Week Ends Only as Martin
1931
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Roget
- Platinum Blonde as Smythe
- The Woman Between as Barton the Butler
- Five and Ten as Hopkins (uncredited)
- The Lady Refuses as Sir James (uncredited)
- The Bachelor Father as Larkin
1930
- The Right of Way as The Siegneur
- Grumpy as Ruddick
- Scotland Yard as Lord St. Arran
- Charley's Aunt as Stephen Spettigue
1929
- Jealousy as Rigaud
- Lucky In Love as Earl of Balkerry