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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 26, 1908
Place of Birth:
Semley, England, UK
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Robert Morley
Biography
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Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag". More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as a "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen."
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | Sir Ambrose Abercrombie in The Loved Ones (archive footage) |
| 1989 | Istanbul | Atkins |
| 1988 | The Lady and the Highwayman | Lord Chancellor |
| 1987 | Little Dorrit | Lord Decimus Barnacle |
| 1987 | The Trouble with Spies | Angus |
| 1986 | The Wind | Elias Appleby |
| 1984 | Second Time Lucky | God |
| 1983 | High Road to China | Bentik |
| 1982 | The Deadly Game | Emile Carpeau |
| 1981 | The Great Muppet Caper | British Gentleman by Pond |
| 1981 | Loophole | Godfrey |
| 1980 | Oh! Heavenly Dog | Bernie |
| 1979 | Scavenger Hunt | Bernstein |
| 1979 | The Human Factor | Doctor Percival |
| 1978 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Maximilian Van Devere |
| 1976 | The Blue Bird | Father Time |
| 1975 | Hugo the Hippo | Sultan (voice) |
| 1974 | Great Expectations | Uncle Pumblechook |
| 1973 | Theatre of Blood | Meredith Merridew |
| 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Uncle Arthur |
| 1970 | Cromwell | The Earl of Manchester |
| 1970 | Song of Norway | Berg |
| 1970 | Doctor in Trouble | Captain George Spratt |
| 1970 | Twinky | Judge Roxborough |
| 1969 | Some Girls Do | Miss Mary |
| 1969 | Sinful Davey | Herzog von Argyll |
| 1968 | Hot Millions | Caesar Smith |
| 1968 | Luther | Papst Leo |
| 1967 | Woman Times Seven | Dr. Xavier |
| 1966 | Finders Keepers | Colonel Roberts |
| 1966 | Tender Scoundrel | Lord Swift |
| 1966 | Way... Way Out | Harold Quonset |
| 1966 | The Trygon Factor | Hubert Hamlyn |
| 1966 | Hotel Paradiso | Henri Cotte |
| 1965 | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes | Lord Rawnsley |
| 1965 | Genghis Khan | Emperor of China |
| 1965 | The Alphabet Murders | Hastings |
| 1965 | A Study in Terror | Mycroft Holmes |
| 1965 | The Loved One | Sir Ambrose Abercombie |
| 1965 | The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics | Narrator (voice) |
| 1965 | Life at the Top | Tiffield |
| 1964 | Hot Enough for June | Col. Cunliffe |
| 1964 | Topkapi | Cedric Page |
| 1964 | Of Human Bondage | Dr. Jacobs |
| 1964 | Rhythm 'n' Greens | Narrator (voice) |
| 1963 | Murder at the Gallop | Hector Enderby |
| 1963 | Nine Hours to Rama | P.K. Mussardi |
| 1963 | The Old Dark House | Roderick Femm |
| 1963 | Take Her, She's Mine | Mr. Pope-Jones |
| 1963 | Ladies Who Do | The Colonel |
| 1962 | The Road to Hong Kong | Leader of the 3rd Echelon |
| 1962 | Go to Blazes | Arson Eddie |
| 1962 | The Boys | Montgomery |
| 1961 | Joseph and His Brethren | Potiphar |
| 1961 | The Young Ones | Hamilton Black |
| 1960 | The Battle of the Sexes | Robert Macpherson |
| 1960 | Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde |
| 1959 | The Journey | Hugh Deverill |
| 1959 | Libel | Sir Wilfred |
| 1959 | The Doctor's Dilemma | Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington |
| 1958 | The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw | Uncle Lucius |
| 1958 | Law and Disorder | Judge Sir Edward Crichton |
| 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Ralph |
| 1956 | Loser Takes All | Dreuther |
| 1955 | Quentin Durward | King Louis XI |
| 1955 | ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall | Self |
| 1954 | Beau Brummell | King George III |
| 1954 | The Good Die Young | Sir Francis Ravenscourt |
| 1954 | The Rainbow Jacket | Lord Logan |
| 1953 | Beat the Devil | Peterson |
| 1953 | The Final Test | Alexander Whitehead |
| 1953 | The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | William S. Gilbert |
| 1953 | Melba | Oscar Hammerstein I |
| 1952 | The African Queen | The Brother |
| 1952 | Curtain Up | W.H. 'Harry' Derwent Blacker |
| 1951 | Outcast of the Islands | Elmer Almayer |
| 1949 | The Small Back Room | The Minister |
| 1947 | The Ghosts of Berkeley Square | Colonel "Bulldog" Kelsoe |
| 1945 | I Live in Grosvenor Square | Duke of Exmoor |
| 1942 | This Was Paris | Van Der Stuyl |
| 1942 | The Foreman Went to France | Mayor Coutare of Bivary |
| 1942 | The Big Blockade | Von Geiselbrecht |
| 1942 | The Young Mr. Pitt | Charles James Fox |
| 1942 | Partners in Crime | Judge |
| 1941 | Major Barbara | Andrew Undershaft |
| 1941 | You Will Remember | Tom Barrett / Leslie Stuart |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | King Louis XVI |
| 1938 | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Around the World in 80 Days | Wentworth |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Alistair Tudsbury |
| 1985 | Alice in Wonderland | King of Hearts |
| 1983 | The Old Men at the Zoo | Lord Godmanchester |
| 1980 | Lady Killers | |
| 1980 | Lady Killers | Self/Presenter |
| 1980 | Lady Killers | Self - Presenter |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Henry Knox |
| 1969 | Charge! | |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1965 | Call My Bluff | |
| 1963 | The Danny Kaye Show | Self |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self |
| 1957 | DuPont Show of the Month | Mr. Jordan |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Mr. Micawber |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mr. Laffler |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter |