Alan Mowbray
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.
Known For
Credits
- 1984 · Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
- 1967 · The Flying Nun as Father Duffy
- 1965 · Mister Roberts as
- 1964 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Harry Blackburn
- 1963 · Petticoat Junction as Lucius J. Penrose
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Butterfield
- 1963 · The Patty Duke Show as
- 1962 · The Beverly Hillbillies as Montrose
- 1961 · A Majority of One as Captain Norcross
- 1960 · Dante as Stewart Styles
- 1959 · Fibber McGee & Molly as
- 1958 · Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Carlson
- 1957 · Maverick as Luke Abigor
- 1957 · Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- 1957 · Meet McGraw as Osgood
- 1957 · Blondie as Jack Bell
- 1956 · Around the World in Eighty Days as British Consul
- 1956 · The Gale Storm Show as Hadley Dexter
- 1956 · The King and I as Sir John Hay
- 1956 · The Man Who Knew Too Much as Val Parnell
- 1956 · Once Upon a Honeymoon as Gordon
- 1955 · Matinee Theater as
- 1955 · The King's Thief as Sir Gilbert Talbot
- 1955 · The Bob Cummings Show as Hawthorne
- 1954 · The Steel Cage as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
- 1954 · Social Lion as Narrator
- 1954 · Hey Mulligan as Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor
- 1954 · Ma and Pa Kettle at Home as Alphonsus Mannering
- 1953 · Colonel Humphrey Flack as
- 1953 · The Life Of Riley as Uncle Baxter
- 1952 · Blackbeard, the Pirate as Noll
- 1952 · Androcles and the Lion as Editor of Gladiators
- 1952 · The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Orville
- 1952 · Mr. & Mrs. North as
- 1952 · The Ford Television Theatre as
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Albert
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Jackson
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Jackson - Waiter
- 1952 · Just Across the Street as Davis
- 1952 · Chevron Theatre as
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Mayor Perkins
- 1951 · Crosswinds as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
- 1951 · The Red Skelton Show as Explorer Radccliffe
- 1951 · The Lady and the Bandit as Lord Charles Willoughby
- 1950 · The Jackpot as Leslie
- 1950 · The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Professor Bradford
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Carter
- 1950 · Wagon Master as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as
- 1949 · The Lone Wolf and His Lady as Jamison
- 1949 · You're My Everything as Joe Blanton
- 1949 · Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff as Melton
- 1949 · The Lovable Cheat as Justin
- 1948 · Every Girl Should Be Married as Mr. Spitzer
- 1948 · My Dear Secretary as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
- 1948 · An Innocent Affair as Ken St. Clair
- 1948 · The Prince Of Thieves as The Friar
- 1948 · The Main Street Kid as The Great Martine
- 1947 · Captain from Castile as Prof. Botello
- 1947 · Merton of the Movies as Frank Mulvaney
- 1947 · Lured as Lyle Maxwell
- 1947 · The Pilgrim Lady as Clifford Latimer
- 1946 · My Darling Clementine as Granville Thorndyke
- 1946 · Idea Girl as J. C. Crow
- 1946 · Terror by Night as Major Duncan-Bleek
- 1945 · Sunbonnet Sue as Jonathan
- 1945 · Men in Her Diary as Douglas Crane
- 1945 · Tell It to a Star as Col. Ambrose Morgan
- 1945 · Where Do We Go from Here? as General George Washington
- 1945 · The Phantom of 42nd Street as Cecil Moore
- 1945 · Earl Carroll Vanities as Grand Duke Paul
- 1945 · Bring on the Girls as August
- 1944 · My Gal Loves Music as Rodney Spoonyer
- 1944 · The Doughgirls as Breckinridge Drake
- 1944 · Ever Since Venus as J. Webster Hackett
- 1943 · His Butler's Sister as Buzz Jenkins
- 1943 · Holy Matrimony as Mr. Pennington
- 1943 · So This Is Washington as Chester W. Marshall
- 1943 · Stage Door Canteen as Alan Mowbray
- 1943 · Slightly Dangerous as English Gentleman
- 1943 · The Powers Girl as John Robert Powers
- 1942 · The Devil with Hitler as Gesatan
- 1942 · Panama Hattie as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
- 1942 · Isle of Missing Men as Dr. Brown
- 1942 · A Yank at Eton as Mr. Duncan
- 1942 · The Mad Martindales as Hugo Martindale
- 1942 · We Were Dancing as Grand Duke Basil
- 1942 · Yokel Boy as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
- 1942 · Three Blonde Mice as Elmer Smith
- 1941 · The Perfect Snob as Freddie Browning
- 1941 · I Wake Up Screaming as Robin Ray
- 1941 · Moon Over Her Shoulder as Grover Sloan
- 1941 · Ice-Capades as Pete Ellis
- 1941 · French Fried Patootie as
- 1941 · The Cowboy and the Blonde as Phineas Johnson
- 1941 · That Uncertain Feeling as Doctor Vengard
- 1941 · That Hamilton Woman as Sir William Hamilton
- 1941 · Footlight Fever as Don Avery
- 1940 · The Quarterback as Professor Hobbs
- 1940 · The Villain Still Pursued Her as Silas Cribbs
- 1940 · The Boys from Syracuse as Angelo
- 1940 · Scatterbrain as J.R. Russell
- 1940 · Curtain Call as Donald Avery
- 1940 · Music in My Heart as Charles Spencer Gardner III
- 1939 · The Llano Kid as John Travers
- 1939 · Way Down South as Jacques Bouton
- 1939 · Never Say Die as le Prince Smirnov
- 1938 · Topper Takes a Trip as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
- 1938 · There Goes My Heart as Penny E. Pennypepper
- 1938 · Merrily We Live as Grosvenor
- 1938 · Hollywood Hotel as Alexander Duprey
- 1937 · Breakdowns of 1937 as Self
- 1937 · Stand-In as Koslofski
- 1937 · Music for Madame as Leon Rodowsky
- 1937 · On Such a Night as Prof. Richard Candle
- 1937 · Vogues of 1938 as Henry Morgan
- 1937 · Topper as Wilkins
- 1937 · Marry the Girl as Dr. Stryker
- 1937 · As Good as Married as Wally
- 1937 · The King and the Chorus Girl as Donald Taylor
- 1937 · On the Avenue as Frederick Sims
- 1936 · Rainbow on the River as Ralph Layton
- 1936 · Four Days Wonder as Archibald Fenton
- 1936 · Ladies In Love as Paul Sandor
- 1936 · My Man Godfrey as Tommy Gray
- 1936 · Mary of Scotland as Throckmorton
- 1936 · Fatal Lady as Uberto Malla
- 1936 · The Case Against Mrs. Ames as Lawrence Waterson
- 1936 · Desire as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
- 1936 · Give Us This Night as Forcellini
- 1936 · Muss 'em Up as Paul Harding
- 1936 · Rose Marie as Premier
- 1935 · In Person as Jay Holmes
- 1935 · She Couldn't Take It as Alan Bartlett
- 1935 · The Gay Deception as Lord Clewe
- 1935 · Lady Tubbs as Elyot Wembsleigh
- 1935 · Becky Sharp as Rawdon Crawley
- 1935 · Night Life of the Gods as Hunter Hawk
- 1934 · Charlie Chan in London as Geoffrey Richmond
- 1934 · Embarrassing Moments as Aheam
- 1934 · One More River as Forsythe
- 1934 · The Girl from Missouri as Lord Douglas
- 1934 · Little Man, What Now? as Franz Schlüter
- 1934 · Where Sinners Meet as Nicholas
- 1934 · Cheaters as Paul Southern
- 1934 · The House of Rothschild as Prince Metternich
- 1934 · Long Lost Father as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
- 1933 · Her Secret as Nils Norton
- 1933 · Roman Scandals as Majordomo
- 1933 · The World Changes as Sir Philip Ivor
- 1933 · Berkeley Square as Major Clinton
- 1933 · Voltaire as Count de Sarnac
- 1933 · Midnight Club as Arthur Bradley
- 1933 · Peg o' My Heart as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
- 1933 · A Study in Scarlet as Lestrade
- 1932 · Sherlock Holmes as Colonel Gore-King
- 1932 · The Phantom President as George Washington (uncredited)
- 1932 · Two Against the World as George 'Georgie' Walton
- 1932 · Winner Take All as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
- 1932 · The Man Called Back as King's Counsel
- 1932 · Jewel Robbery as Detective Fritz
- 1932 · The Man from Yesterday as Dr. Waite
- 1932 · Man About Town as Ivan Boris
- 1932 · The World and the Flesh as Dimitri
- 1932 · Hotel Continental as Walter Underwood
- 1932 · The Silent Witness as Arthur Drinton
- 1932 · Lovers Courageous as Lamone
- 1931 · Nice Women as Mark Chandler
- 1931 · Honor of the Family as Tony Revere
- 1931 · Left Over Ladies as Jerry
- 1931 · Alexander Hamilton as George Washington
- 1931 · Guilty Hands as Gordon Rich
- 1931 · How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons' as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
- 1931 · The Man in Possession as Sir Charles Cartwright
- 1931 · God's Gift to Women as Auguste, Toto's Butler