Alan Mowbray

Born: 1896-08-17 in London, England, UK

Died: 1969-03-25

Known For: Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Mowbray MM, (18 August 1896 - 25 March 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He began as a stage actor, making his way to the United States where he appeared in Broadway plays and toured the country as part of a theater troupe. As Alan Mowbray, he made his motion picture debut in 1931, going on to a career primarily as a character actor in more than 140 films including the sterling butler role in the comedy Merrily We Live, and playing the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Colonel Flack. During World War II, he made a memorable appearance as the Devil in the Hal Roach propaganda comedy The Devil with Hitler. He appeared in some two dozen guest roles on various television series. Mowbray was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, with outside interests that led to membership in Britain's Royal Geographic Society. He played the title role in the television series Colonel Humphrey Flack, which first appeared in 1953-1954 and then was revived in 1958-1959. In the 1954-1955 television season Mowbray played Mr. Swift, the drama coach of the character Mickey Mulligan, in NBC's short-lived situation comedy The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan. Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Mowbray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

1993

Broken Highway ... (Armorer)

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)

1967

The Flying Nun as Father Duffy

1961

The Investigators as Cranshaw
A Majority of One as Captain Norcross

1960

Dante as Stewart Styles

1959

Startime as King Arthur
Fibber McGee & Molly

1958

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Carlson

1957

Maverick as Luke Abigor
Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
Blondie as Jack Bell
Meet McGraw as Osgood

1956

The Gale Storm Show as Hadley Dexter
Around the World in 80 Days as British Consul
The Man Who Knew Too Much as Val Parnell
The King and I as John Hay
Once Upon a Honeymoon as Gordon

1955

Matinee Theater
The Bob Cummings Show as Hawthorne
The King's Thief as Sir Gilbert Talbot

1954

Hey Mulligan as Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home as Alphonsus Mannering
The Steel Cage as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
Social Lion as Narrator

1953

1952

Four Star Playhouse as Albert
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Orville
The Ford Television Theatre
Chevron Theatre
Mr. & Mrs. North
Androcles and the Lion as Editor of Gladiators
Blackbeard, the Pirate as Noll
Just Across the Street as Davis

1951

The Red Skelton Show as Explorer Radccliffe
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Mayor Perkins
The Lady and the Bandit as Lord Charles Willoughby
Crosswinds as The Hon Cecil Daubrey

1950

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Professor Bradford
Robert Montgomery Presents
Lux Video Theatre as Carter
Wagon Master as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
The Jackpot as Leslie

1949

You're My Everything as Joe Blanton
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff as Melton
The Lovable Cheat as Justin
The Lone Wolf and His Lady as Jamison

1948

Every Girl Should Be Married as Mr. Spitzer
My Dear Secretary as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
The Prince of Thieves as The Friar
An Innocent Affair as Ken St. Clair
The Main Street Kid as The Great Martine

1947

Lured as Lyle Maxwell
Captain from Castile as Prof. Botello
Merton of the Movies as Frank Mulvaney
The Pilgrim Lady as Clifford Latimer

1946

My Darling Clementine as Granville Thorndyke
Terror by Night as Major Duncan-Bleek
Idea Girl as J. C. Crow

1945

The Phantom of 42nd Street as Cecil Moore
Earl Carroll Vanities as Grand Duke Paul
Men in Her Diary as Douglas Crane
Where Do We Go from Here? as General George Washington
Sunbonnet Sue as Jonathan
Bring on the Girls as August
Tell It to a Star as Col. Ambrose Morgan

1944

The Doughgirls as Breckinridge Drake
Ever Since Venus as J. Webster Hackett
My Gal Loves Music as Rodney Spoonyer

1943

Stage Door Canteen as Alan Mowbray
Slightly Dangerous as English Gentleman
Holy Matrimony as Mr. Pennington
His Butler's Sister as Buzz Jenkins
The Powers Girl as John Robert Powers
So This Is Washington as Chester W. Marshall

1942

Panama Hattie as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
Yokel Boy as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
Isle of Missing Men as Dr. Brown
The Devil with Hitler as Gesatan
We Were Dancing as Grand Duke Basil
A Yank at Eton as Mr. Duncan
The Mad Martindales as Hugo Martindale
Three Blonde Mice as Elmer Smith

1941

That Hamilton Woman as Sir William Hamilton
That Uncertain Feeling as Doctor Vengard
I Wake Up Screaming as Robin Ray
The Cowboy and the Blonde as Phineas Johnson
Ice-Capades as Pete Ellis
The Perfect Snob as Freddie Browning
Footlight Fever as Don Avery
French Fried Patootie
Moon Over Her Shoulder as Grover Sloan

1940

Scatterbrain as J.R. Russell
The Villain Still Pursued Her as Silas Cribbs
The Boys from Syracuse as Angelo
Music in My Heart as Charles Spencer Gardner III
The Quarterback as Professor Hobbs
Curtain Call as Donald Avery

1939

Never Say Die as le Prince Smirnov
Way Down South as Jacques Bouton
The Llano Kid as John Travers

1938

Merrily We Live as Grosvenor
Hollywood Hotel as Alexander Duprey
Topper Takes a Trip as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
There Goes My Heart as Penny E. Pennypepper

1937

Topper as Wilkins
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 as Henry Morgan
On the Avenue as Frederick Sims
Stand-In as Koslofski
The King and the Chorus Girl as Donald Taylor
Breakdowns of 1937 as Self
Music for Madame as Leon Rodowsky
On Such a Night as Prof. Richard Candle
Marry the Girl as Dr. Stryker
As Good as Married as Wally

1936

My Man Godfrey as Tommy Gray
Desire as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
Mary of Scotland as Throckmorton
Rose Marie as Premier
Ladies in Love as Paul Sandor
Fatal Lady as Uberto Malla
Rainbow on the River as Ralph Layton
Muss 'em Up as Paul Harding
Give Us This Night as Forcellini
The Case Against Mrs. Ames as Lawrence Waterson
Four Days Wonder as Archibald Fenton

1935

Becky Sharp as Rawdon Crawley
The Gay Deception as Lord Clewe
In Person as Jay Holmes
Night Life of the Gods as Hunter Hawk
She Couldn't Take It as Alan Bartlett
Lady Tubbs as Elyot Wembsleigh

1934

Little Man, What Now? as Franz Schlüter
The House of Rothschild as Prince Metternich
Embarrassing Moments as Aheam
One More River as Forsythe
Charlie Chan in London as Geoffrey Richmond
Where Sinners Meet as Nicholas
Cheaters as Paul Southern
Long Lost Father as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
The Girl from Missouri as Lord Douglas

1933

Roman Scandals as Majordomo
The World Changes as Sir Philip Ivor
A Study in Scarlet as Lestrade
Berkeley Square as Major Clinton
Midnight Club as Arthur Bradley
Voltaire as Count de Sarnac
Her Secret as Nils Norton
Peg o' My Heart as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent

1932

Jewel Robbery as Detective Fritz
Sherlock Holmes as Colonel Gore-King
The Man from Yesterday as Dr. Waite
Man About Town as Ivan Boris
The Phantom President as George Washington (uncredited)
Winner Take All as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
Lovers Courageous as Lamone
The Silent Witness as Arthur Drinton
Hotel Continental as Walter Underwood
Two Against the World as George 'Georgie' Walton
The Man Called Back as King's Counsel
The World and the Flesh as Dimitri

1931

Nice Women as Mark Chandler
Honor of the Family as Tony Revere
Guilty Hands as Gordon Rich
Alexander Hamilton as George Washington
God's Gift to Women as Auguste, Toto's Butler
Left Over Ladies as Jerry
The Man in Possession as Sir Charles Cartwright
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons' as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)