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