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