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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 30, 1882
Place of Birth:
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Holmes Herbert
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952.
Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940).
He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s.
Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955.
He died in 1956 at age 74.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | The Wild North | Magistrate (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Brigand | Archbishop |
| 1951 | The Unknown Man | |
| 1951 | Anne of the Indies | English Sea Captain |
| 1951 | The Son of Dr. Jekyll | Constable (uncredited) |
| 1950 | The Iroquois Trail | Gen. Johnson |
| 1949 | The Lost Tribe | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Post Office Investigator | James Seeley |
| 1949 | South of St. Louis | |
| 1949 | Barbary Pirate | Thomas Jefferson |
| 1949 | Canadian Pacific | Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited) |
| 1948 | A Woman's Vengeance | Warder (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Family Honeymoon | Rev. Miller (uncredited) |
| 1948 | The Swordsman | Lord Glowan |
| 1948 | The Wreck of the Hesperus | Pastor West |
| 1948 | Sorry, Wrong Number | Wilkins (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Jungle Jim | Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden |
| 1948 | Johnny Belinda | Judge (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Ghost Goes Wild | Judge |
| 1947 | Singapore | Rev. Barnes |
| 1947 | Ivy | Mulloy (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back | Inspector McIver |
| 1947 | Over the Santa Fe Trail | Doc Henderson |
| 1947 | Bulldog Drummond at Bay | Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar |
| 1946 | Dressed to Kill | Ebenezer Crabtree |
| 1946 | The Verdict | Sir William Dawson |
| 1946 | Love Laughs at Andy Hardy | Dr. White, Minister |
| 1946 | Three Strangers | Sir Robert |
| 1945 | The House of Fear | Alan Cosgrave |
| 1945 | Jealousy | Melvyn Russell |
| 1945 | Confidential Agent | Lord Benditch |
| 1945 | Swingin' on a Rainbow | Butler (uncredited) |
| 1945 | The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | |
| 1944 | The Pearl of Death | James Goodram, courier |
| 1944 | The Uninvited | Charlie Jessup |
| 1944 | The Unwritten Code | McDowell (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Enter Arsène Lupin | Jobson |
| 1944 | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay | Captain (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Mummy's Curse | Dr. Cooper |
| 1943 | Calling Dr. Death | Bryant, the Butler |
| 1943 | Two Tickets to London | Kilgallen |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Mr. Ahrens |
| 1943 | Corvette K-225 | Commodore Ramsay |
| 1942 | The Ghost of Frankenstein | Magistrate |
| 1942 | Invisible Agent | Sir Alfred Spencer |
| 1942 | This Above All | Dr. Mathias |
| 1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Sir Reginald |
| 1942 | Danger in the Pacific | Commissioner |
| 1942 | The Undying Monster | Chief Constable (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Strictly in the Groove | Commissioner |
| 1942 | Lady in a Jam | Man at Auction (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Man Hunt | Saul Farnsworthy |
| 1940 | The Earl of Chicago | Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Boom Town | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | Asst. Commissioner |
| 1940 | The Letter | Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited) |
| 1940 | A Dispatch from Reuters | Member of Parliament (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Phantom Raiders | Sir Edward |
| 1940 | An Angel from Texas | Second Banker |
| 1939 | Trapped in the Sky | Fielding |
| 1939 | Hidden Power | Dr. Morley |
| 1939 | Tower of London | Councilman (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Justice of the Court |
| 1939 | British Intelligence | Arthur Bennett |
| 1939 | The Mystery of Mr. Wong | Prof. Ed Janney |
| 1939 | Bad Boy | Mr. McNeil |
| 1939 | Stanley and Livingstone | Frederick Holcomb |
| 1939 | Wolf Call | J.L. Winton |
| 1939 | Mr. Moto's Last Warning | Bentham (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Little Princess | Doctor |
| 1939 | Juarez | Marshal Randon (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Sun Never Sets | Colonial Official |
| 1939 | We Are Not Alone | Police Inspector |
| 1939 | The House of Fear | Minor Role |
| 1939 | Everything Happens at Night | Featherstone |
| 1939 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Majordomo (uncredited) |
| 1939 | 20,000 Men a Year | Dean Norris |
| 1939 | Mystery of the White Room | Hospital Administrator |
| 1939 | Rulers of the Sea | Member of Naval Company (Uncredited) |
| 1939 | Intermezzo: A Love Story | Doctor (Uncredited) |
| 1938 | Here's Flash Casey | Maj. Addison |
| 1938 | The Black Doll | Dr. Giddings |
| 1938 | Say It in French | Richard Carrington Sr. |
| 1938 | Kidnapped | Judge |
| 1938 | The Buccaneer | Captain McWilliams |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | Herald (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Prince and the Pauper | First Doctor |
| 1937 | The Thirteenth Chair | Roscoe Crosby |
| 1937 | The Girl Said No | Charles Dillon (scenes deleted) |
| 1937 | Slave Ship | Commander |
| 1937 | The Man Without a Country | Aaron Burr |
| 1936 | The House of Secrets | Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary |
| 1936 | Brilliant Marriage | Mr. Rodney Allison |
| 1936 | The Gentleman from Louisiana | Chief Steward |
| 1936 | The White Angel | War Minister (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Champagne Charlie | Captain Dell |
| 1936 | 15 Maiden Lane | Harold Anderson |
| 1936 | Wife vs. Secretary | Frawley (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Lloyd's of London | Spokesman |
| 1935 | Mark of the Vampire | Sir Karell Borotyn |
| 1935 | Captain Blood | Capt. Gardner |
| 1935 | One in a Million | Donald Cabot Sr. |
| 1935 | Cardinal Richelieu | Noble |
| 1935 | Accent on Youth | Frank Galloway |
| 1934 | The Pursuit of Happiness | Gen. Sir Henry Clinton |
| 1934 | Sons of Steel | Curtis Chadburne |
| 1934 | The Curtain Falls | John Scorsby |
| 1934 | Beloved | Lord Landslake |
| 1934 | The House of Rothschild | Rowerth |
| 1933 | The Invisible Man | Chief of Police |
| 1933 | Mystery of the Wax Museum | Dr. Rasmussen |
| 1932 | Miss Pinkerton | Arthur Glenn |
| 1932 | Sister to Judas | Bruce Rogers |
| 1932 | Shop Angel | James Walton Kennedy |
| 1932 | Central Park | Benefit Emcee (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. John Lanyon |
| 1931 | Chances | Maj. Bradford |
| 1931 | Broadminded | John J. Hackett Sr. |
| 1931 | The Hot Heiress | Mr. Hunter |
| 1931 | The Single Sin | Roger Van Dorn |
| 1931 | Daughter of the Dragon | Sir John Petrie |
| 1930 | The Ship from Shanghai | Paul Thorpe |
| 1929 | The Kiss | Lassalle |
| 1929 | Madame X | Noel |
| 1929 | The Thirteenth Chair | Sir Roscoe Crosby |
| 1929 | Untamed | Howard Presley |
| 1929 | Say It with Songs | Dr. Robert Merrill |
| 1929 | The Charlatan | Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight |
| 1929 | Careers | Carouge |
| 1929 | The Careless Age | Sir John |
| 1929 | Her Private Life | Rudolph Solomon |
| 1928 | On Trial | Gerald Trask |
| 1928 | The Terror | Goodman (as Holmes E. Herbert) |
| 1928 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Henry Spoffard |
| 1928 | The Sporting Age | James Driscoll |
| 1928 | Through the Breakers | Eustis Hobbs |
| 1927 | East Side, West Side | Gilbert Van Horn |
| 1927 | Mr. Wu | Mr. Gregory |
| 1927 | Slaves of Beauty | Leonard Jones |
| 1927 | When a Man Loves | Jean Tiberge |
| 1927 | One Increasing Purpose | Charles Paris |
| 1927 | The Heart of Salome | Sir Humphrey |
| 1927 | The Silver Slave | Tom Richards |
| 1927 | The Gay Retreat | Charles Wright |
| 1926 | The Fire Brigade | James Corwin |
| 1926 | The Honeymoon Express | Jim Donaldson |
| 1926 | Josselyn's Wife | Thomas Josselyn |
| 1925 | A Woman of the World | Richard Granger |
| 1925 | Up the Ladder | Robert Newhall |
| 1925 | The Wanderer | Prophet |
| 1925 | Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | |
| 1924 | The Enchanted Cottage | Major Hillgrove |
| 1924 | Sinners in Heaven | Hugh Rochedale |
| 1924 | I Will Repay | Sir Percy Blakeney |
| 1924 | Another Scandal | Pelham Franklin |
| 1924 | Her Own Free Will | Peter Craddock |
| 1922 | Moonshine Valley | Dr. Martin |
| 1922 | Evidence | Judge Rowland |
| 1922 | Any Wife | Philip Gray |
| 1922 | A Woman's Woman | John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert) |
| 1922 | Divorce Coupons | Roland Bland |
| 1922 | A Stage Romance | Prince of Wales |
| 1921 | The Wild Goose | Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert) |
| 1921 | Her Lord and Master | R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning |
| 1921 | The Family Closet | Alfred Dinsmore |
| 1920 | Dead Men Tell No Tales | Squire John Rattray |
| 1920 | His House in Order | Filmer Jesson |
| 1920 | Lady Rose's Daughter | Jacob Delafield |
| 1920 | The Right to Love | Lord Falkland |
| 1920 | On with the Dance | |
| 1920 | Black Is White | Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert) |
| 1920 | The Truth About Husbands | Dustan Renshaw |
| 1919 | The Divorcee | Sir Paradine Fuldes |
| 1919 | The White Heather | Lord Angus Cameron |
| 1919 | The ABC of Love | Harry Bryant |
| 1919 | Greater Than Love | James Bruton |
| 1919 | Other Men's Wives | Fenwick Flint |
| 1918 | The Death Dance | Arnold Maitland |
| 1918 | A Doll's House | Thorvald Helmar |
| 1917 | The Man Without a Country | Lt. Philip Nolan |
| 1915 | His Wife | John Dennys |
| 1915 | The Fisherwoman | The Son |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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