Alan Mowbray
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1896-08-17
Day of Death
1969-03-25 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Alan Mowbray
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1984)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1961)
A Majority of One
as Captain Norcross
(1956)
Around the World in Eighty Days
as British Consul
(1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Val Parnell
(1956)
Once Upon a Honeymoon
as Gordon
(1956)
The King and I
as Sir John Hay
(1955)
The King's Thief
as Sir Gilbert Talbot
(1954)
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
as Alphonsus Mannering
(1954)
The Steel Cage
as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
(1954)
Social Lion
as Narrator
(1952)
Androcles and the Lion
as Editor of Gladiators
(1952)
Blackbeard, the Pirate
as Noll
(1952)
Just Across the Street
as Davis
(1951)
The Lady and the Bandit
as Lord Charles Willoughby
(1951)
Crosswinds
as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
(1950)
The Jackpot
as Leslie
(1950)
Wagon Master
as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
(1949)
You're My Everything
as Joe Blanton
(1949)
(1949)
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
as Jamison
(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)
The Main Street Kid
as The Great Martine
(1948)
The Prince of Thieves
as The Friar
(1948)
An Innocent Affair
as Ken St. Clair
(1947)
Captain from Castile
as Prof. Botello
(1947)
The Pilgrim Lady
as Clifford Latimer
(1947)
Lured
as Lyle Maxwell
(1947)
Merton of the Movies
as Frank Mulvaney
(1946)
Terror by Night
as Major Duncan-Bleek
(1946)
My Darling Clementine
as Granville Thorndyke
(1946)
Idea Girl
as J. C. Crow
(1945)
The Phantom of 42nd Street
as Cecil Moore
(1945)
Sunbonnet Sue
as Jonathan
(1945)
Earl Carroll Vanities
as Grand Duke Paul
(1945)
Tell It to a Star
as Col. Ambrose Morgan
(1945)
Bring on the Girls
as August
(1945)
Where Do We Go from Here?
as General George Washington
(1945)
Men in Her Diary
as Douglas Crane
(1944)
Ever Since Venus
as J. Webster Hackett
(1944)
The Doughgirls
as Breckinridge Drake
(1944)
My Gal Loves Music
as Rodney Spoonyer
(1943)
His Butler's Sister
as Buzz Jenkins
(1943)
Slightly Dangerous
as English Gentleman
(1943)
So This Is Washington
as Chester W. Marshall
(1943)
Stage Door Canteen
as Alan Mowbray
(1943)
The Powers Girl
as John Robert Powers
(1943)
Holy Matrimony
as Mr. Pennington
(1942)
The Mad Martindales
as Hugo Martindale
(1942)
The Devil with Hitler
as Gesatan
(1942)
We Were Dancing
as Grand Duke Basil
(1942)
Yokel Boy
as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
(1942)
Isle of Missing Men
as Dr. Brown
(1942)
Panama Hattie
as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
(1942)
A Yank at Eton
as Mr. Duncan
(1942)
Three Blonde Mice
as Elmer Smith
(1941)
The Perfect Snob
as Freddie Browning
(1941)
Footlight Fever
as Don Avery
(1941)
That Hamilton Woman
as Sir William Hamilton
(1941)
Ice-Capades
as Pete Ellis
(1941)
That Uncertain Feeling
as Doctor Vengard
(1941)
I Wake Up Screaming
as Robin Ray
(1941)
The Cowboy and the Blonde
as Phineas Johnson
(1941)
(1941)
Moon Over Her Shoulder
as Grover Sloan
(1940)
The Boys from Syracuse
as Angelo
(1940)
Curtain Call
as Donald Avery
(1940)
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Silas Cribbs
(1940)
Music in My Heart
as Charles Spencer Gardner III
(1940)
Scatterbrain
as J.R. Russell
(1940)
The Quarterback
as Professor Hobbs
(1939)
The Llano Kid
as John Travers
(1939)
Never Say Die
as le Prince Smirnov
(1939)
Way Down South
as Jacques Bouton
(1938)
Topper Takes a Trip
as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
(1938)
There Goes My Heart
as Penny E. Pennypepper
(1938)
Hollywood Hotel
as Alexander Duprey
(1938)
Merrily We Live
as Grosvenor
(1937)
Topper
as Wilkins
(1937)
As Good as Married
as Wally
(1937)
On Such a Night
as Prof. Richard Candle
(1937)
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
(1937)
Vogues of 1938
as Henry Morgan
(1937)
Music for Madame
as Leon Rodowsky
(1937)
On the Avenue
as Frederick Sims
(1937)
Marry the Girl
as Dr. Stryker
(1937)
Stand-In
as Koslofski
(1937)
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Donald Taylor
(1936)
Four Days Wonder
as Archibald Fenton
(1936)
Rainbow on the River
as Ralph Layton
(1936)
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Lawrence Waterson
(1936)
Desire
as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
(1936)
Mary of Scotland
as Throckmorton
(1936)
Fatal Lady
as Uberto Malla
(1936)
Rose Marie
as Premier
(1936)
Muss 'em Up
as Paul Harding
(1936)
Ladies in Love
as Paul Sandor
(1936)
My Man Godfrey
as Tommy Gray
(1936)
Give Us This Night
as Forcellini
(1935)
Night Life of the Gods
as Hunter Hawk
(1935)
Becky Sharp
as Rawdon Crawley
(1935)
Lady Tubbs
as Elyot Wembsleigh
(1935)
In Person
as Jay Holmes
(1935)
The Gay Deception
as Lord Clewe
(1935)
She Couldn't Take It
as Alan Bartlett
(1934)
Little Man, What Now?
as Franz Schlüter
(1934)
One More River
as Forsythe
(1934)
Where Sinners Meet
as Nicholas
(1934)
Long Lost Father
as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
(1934)
The Girl from Missouri
as Lord Douglas
(1934)
The House of Rothschild
as Prince Metternich
(1934)
Charlie Chan in London
as Geoffrey Richmond
(1934)
Cheaters
as Paul Southern
(1934)
Embarrassing Moments
as Aheam
(1933)
Peg o' My Heart
as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
(1933)
Midnight Club
as Arthur Bradley
(1933)
Roman Scandals
as Majordomo
(1933)
A Study in Scarlet
as Lestrade
(1933)
Berkeley Square
as Major Clinton
(1933)
Voltaire
as Count de Sarnac
(1933)
Her Secret
as Nils Norton
(1933)
The World Changes
as Sir Philip Ivor
(1932)
Jewel Robbery
as Detective Fritz
(1932)
The Man Called Back
as King's Counsel
(1932)
Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Gore-King
(1932)
The Man from Yesterday
as Dr. Waite
(1932)
The Silent Witness
as Arthur Drinton
(1932)
Lovers Courageous
as Lamone
(1932)
The Phantom President
as George Washington (uncredited)
(1932)
Hotel Continental
as Walter Underwood
(1932)
Two Against the World
as George 'Georgie' Walton
(1932)
The World and the Flesh
as Dimitri
(1932)
Man About Town
as Ivan Boris
(1932)
Winner Take All
as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
(1931)
The Man in Possession
as Sir Charles Cartwright
(1931)
Left Over Ladies
as Jerry
(1931)
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
(1931)
Honor of the Family
as Tony Revere
(1931)
Guilty Hands
as Gordon Rich
(1931)
Alexander Hamilton
as George Washington
(1931)
God's Gift to Women
as Auguste, Toto's Butler
(1931)
Nice Women
as Mark Chandler
Crew
(1993)
Broken Highway
Armorer