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 Man Who Knew Too Much as Val Parnell
The Gale Storm Show as Hadley Dexter
Around the World in 80 Days as British Consul
The King and I as Sir 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
Social Lion as Narrator
The Steel Cage as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"

1953

1952

Four Star Playhouse as Albert
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Orville
The Ford Television Theatre
Mr. & Mrs. North
Chevron Theatre
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
Crosswinds as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
The Lady and the Bandit as Lord Charles Willoughby

1950

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

1949

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
You're My Everything as Joe Blanton

1948

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

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

1944

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

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

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

1941

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

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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