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

A Majority of One as Captain Norcross
The Investigators as Cranshaw

1960

Dante as Stewart Styles

1959

Fibber McGee & Molly

1958

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Carlson

1957

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

1956

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

1955

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

1954

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

1953

1952

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

1951

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

1950

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

1949

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

1948

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

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

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

1945

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

1944

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

1943

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

1942

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

1941

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

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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