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