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