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