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)
- Casanova Brown as Charles, the Butler
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as Cleghorn, 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
- Naughty but Nice as Dean Burton, Winfield College
- Nurse Edith Cavell as British Chaplain
- The Hardys Ride High as Dobbs
- The Light That Failed as Doctor
- Tell No Tales as Dr. Lovelake
- 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)
- Kidnapped as Dominie Campbell
- Storm Over Bengal as Sir John Galt
- The Jury's Secret as John, Butler
- Bulldog Drummond's Peril as Prof. Bernard Goodman
- Service de Luxe as Butler
1937
- The Prince and the Pauper as Archbishop
- Maid of Salem as Jeremiah
- Fit for a King as Count Strunsky
- Parnell as W.H. Smith
- Varsity Show as Dean Meredith
1936
- Dracula's Daughter as Hawkins
- Mary of Scotland as Man (uncredited)
- The Story of Louis Pasteur as Dr. Lister
- Here Comes Trouble as Professor Howard
- The White Angel as Lord Raglan
- Spendthrift as Beuhl - the Butler
- Give Me Your Heart as Oliver Warren
- Hearts Divided as Cambaceres
- Love Letters of a Star as Hotchkiss
- 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
- Cardinal Richelieu as Father Joseph
- Millions in the Air as Theodore
- Vanessa: Her Love Story as Father of Little Girl
- The Right to Live as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
- Jalna as Ernest Whiteoaks
1934
- Riptide as Bollard
- British Agent as Sir Walter Carrister
- Double Door as Mr. Chase
- She Was a Lady as George Dane
- We Live Again as Official
- Mandalay as Col. Dawson Ames
- The Key as General C.O. Furlong
- Father Brown, Detective as Sir Leopold Fischer
- 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
- 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
- Devil's Lottery as Lord Litchfield
- Man About Town as Hilton
- The Menace as Phillips
- Cynara as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
- Love Affair as Kibbee
- Lovers Courageous as Mr. Smith
- Payment Deferred as A Prospective Tenant
- 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
- Platinum Blonde as Smythe
- Five and Ten as Hopkins (uncredited)
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Roget
- The Woman Between as Barton the Butler
- The Bachelor Father as Larkin
- The Lady Refuses as Sir James (uncredited)
1930
- Charley's Aunt as Stephen Spettigue
- Scotland Yard as Lord St. Arran
- The Right of Way as The Siegneur
- Grumpy as Ruddick
1929
- Lucky In Love as Earl of Balkerry
- Jealousy as Rigaud