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
- The Black Arrow as Bishop of Tisbury
- You Gotta Stay Happy as Martin
1947
- Hollywood Wonderland as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
- If Winter Comes as The Coroner
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
- Mr. Muggs Steps Out
- His Butler's Sister as Willebrandt
1942
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley as Bennett
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Purdy
- To Be or Not to Be as Gen. Armstrong
- Journey for Margaret as Mr. Barrie
- The Undying Monster as Walton the Butler
1941
- Sunny as Johnson
- That Hamilton Woman as Rev. Nelson
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Sisk
1940
- Waterloo Bridge as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
- Third Finger, Left Hand as Burton
- The Sea Hawk as Astronomer
- The Earl of Chicago as Lord Chancellor
- Lady with Red Hair as Divorce Judge (uncredited)
1939
- Remember? as Butler Williams
- Pacific Liner as Captain Mathews
- The Light That Failed as Doctor
- Nurse Edith Cavell as British Chaplain
- The Hardys Ride High as Dobbs
- Tell No Tales as Dr. Lovelake
- Naughty But Nice as Dean Burton, Winfield College
1938
- A Christmas Carol as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
- Kidnapped as Dominie Campbell
- You Can't Take It with You as Mr. DePinna
- Bulldog Drummond's Peril as Prof. Bernard Goodman
- Storm Over Bengal as Sir John Galt
- The Jury's Secret as John, Butler
- Service de Luxe as Butler
1937
- Varsity Show as Dean Meredith
- The Prince and the Pauper as Archbishop
- Parnell as W.H. Smith
- Maid of Salem as Jeremiah
- Fit for a King as Count Strunsky
1936
- Hearts Divided as Cambaceres
- Spendthrift as Beuhl - the Butler
- The Story of Louis Pasteur as Dr. Lister
- Dracula's Daughter as Hawkins
- The White Angel as Lord Raglan
- Love Letters of a Star as Hotchkiss
- Give Me Your Heart as Oliver Warren
- Here Comes Trouble as Professor Howard
- Mary of Scotland as Man (uncredited)
- Changing of the Guard as Grandfather, the Colonel
1935
- Captain Blood as Lord Sunderland (uncredited)
- Cardinal Richelieu as Father Joseph
- Folies Bergère as Monsieur Paulet
- Jalna as Ernest Whiteoaks
- The Right to Live as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
- Charlie Chan in Shanghai as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
- Millions in the Air as Theodore
- Vanessa: Her Love Story as Father of Little Girl
1934
- Double Door as Mr. Chase
- British Agent as Sir Walter Carrister
- Riptide as Bollard
- Menace as Skinner
- The Key as General C.O. Furlong
- Mandalay as Col. Dawson Ames
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back as First Bobby
- We Live Again as Official
- Father Brown, Detective as Sir Leopold Fischer
- She Was a Lady as George Dane
1933
- Looking Forward as Mr. James Felton
- Captured! as British Major General
- Midnight Mary as Churchill
- The Masquerader as Brock
- If I Were Free as Burford-Gordon's butler
- Lady for a Day as Butler
- I Am Suzanne! as Dr. Lorenzo
- A Study in Scarlet as Malcolm Dearing
- Should Ladies Behave as Louis
1932
- Lovers Courageous as Mr. Smith
- Payment Deferred as A Prospective Tenant
- Cynara as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
- The Menace as Phillips
- 6 Hours to Live as Baron Emil von Sturm
- Week Ends Only as Martin
- Man About Town as Hilton
- Devil's Lottery as Lord Litchfield
- Love Affair as Kibbee
1931
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Roget
- Platinum Blonde as Smythe
- Five and Ten as Hopkins (uncredited)
- The Woman Between as Barton the Butler
- The Lady Refuses as Sir James (uncredited)
- The Bachelor Father as Larkin
1930
- Grumpy as Ruddick
- Scotland Yard as Lord St. Arran
- The Right of Way as The Siegneur
- Charley's Aunt as Stephen Spettigue
1929
- Jealousy as Rigaud
- Lucky In Love