Robert Morley

Born: 1908-05-26 in Semley, England, UK

Died: 1992-06-03

Known For: Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag". More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as a "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen." Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Morley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2018

Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself as Sir Ambrose Abercrombie in The Loved Ones (archive footage)

1989

Around the World in 80 Days as Wentworth
Istanbul as Atkins

1988

War and Remembrance as Alistair Tudsbury
The Lady and the Highwayman as Lord Chancellor

1987

The Trouble with Spies as Angus
Little Dorrit as Lord Decimus Barnacle

1986

The Wind as Elias Appleby

1985

Alice in Wonderland as King of Hearts

1984

Second Time Lucky as God

1983

High Road to China as Bentik
The Old Men at the Zoo as Lord Godmanchester

1982

The Deadly Game as Emile Carpeau

1981

The Great Muppet Caper as British Gentleman by Pond
Loophole as Godfrey

1980

Oh! Heavenly Dog as Bernie
Lady Killers

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Henry Knox
Scavenger Hunt as Bernstein
The Human Factor as Doctor Percival

1978

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Maximilian Van Devere

1976

The Blue Bird as Father Time

1974

Great Expectations as Uncle Pumblechook

1973

Theatre of Blood as Meredith Merridew

1971

When Eight Bells Toll as Uncle Arthur

1970

Cromwell as The Earl of Manchester
Twinky as Judge Roxborough
Song of Norway as Berg
Doctor in Trouble as Captain George Spratt

1969

Sinful Davey as Duke of Argyll
Some Girls Do as Miss Mary
Charge!

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
Luther as Papst Leo
Hot Millions as Caesar Smith

1967

Woman Times Seven as Dr. Xavier

1966

Tender Scoundrel as Lord Swift
The Trygon Factor as Hubert Hamlyn
Finders Keepers as Colonel Roberts
Way... Way Out as Harold Quonset
Hotel Paradiso as Henri Cotte

1965

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes as Lord Rawnsley
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics as Narrator (voice)
Genghis Khan as Emperor of China
The Loved One as Sir Ambrose Abercombie
A Study in Terror as Mycroft Holmes
The Alphabet Murders as Captain Hastings
Life at the Top as Tiffield
Call My Bluff

1964

Topkapi as Cedric Page
Of Human Bondage as Dr. Jacobs
Rhythm 'n' Greens as Narrator (voice)
Hot Enough for June as Col. Cunliffe

1963

The Danny Kaye Show as Self
Murder at the Gallop as Hector Enderby
The Old Dark House as Roderick Femm
Nine Hours to Rama as P.K. Mussardi
Ladies Who Do as The Colonel
Take Her, She's Mine as Mr. Pope-Jones

1962

The Road to Hong Kong as Leader of the 3rd Echelon
The Boys as Montgomery
Go to Blazes as Arson Eddie

1961

The Young Ones as Hamilton Black
Joseph and His Brethren as Potiphar

1960

The Battle of the Sexes as Robert Macpherson
Oscar Wilde as Oscar Wilde

1959

The Journey as Hugh Deverill
Libel as Sir Wilfred
The Doctor's Dilemma as Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington

1958

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw as Uncle Lucius
Law and Disorder as Judge Sir Edward Crichton

1954

Beau Brummell as King George III
The Good Die Young as Sir Francis Ravenscourt
The Rainbow Jacket as Lord Logan

1953

Melba as Oscar Hammerstein I
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan as William S. Gilbert
Beat the Devil as Peterson
The Final Test as Alexander Whitehead

1952

The African Queen as The Brother
Curtain Up as W.H. 'Harry' Derwent Blacker

1951

Outcast of the Islands as Elmer Almayer

1949

The Small Back Room as The Minister
Edward, My Son ... (Theatre Play)

1947

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square as Colonel "Bulldog" Kelsoe

1945

I Live in Grosvenor Square as Duke of Exmoor

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

1942

The Foreman Went to France as Mayor Coutare of Bivary
This Was Paris as Van Der Stuyl
The Young Mr. Pitt as Charles James Fox
Partners in Crime as Judge
The Big Blockade as Von Geiselbrecht

1941

Major Barbara as Andrew Undershaft
You Will Remember as Tom Barrett / Leslie Stuart

1938

Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI
Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)