Alan Mowbray
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 17, 1896
- Died
- March 25, 1969
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Mowbray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Broken Highway 1993
Armorer
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984
as (archive footage)
A Majority of One 1961
as Captain Norcross
Around the World in 80 Days 1956
as British Consul
The King and I 1956
as John Hay
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956
as Val Parnell
- Once Upon a Honeymoon
Once Upon a Honeymoon 1956
as Gordon
The King's Thief 1955
as Sir Gilbert Talbot
The Steel Cage 1954
as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
Social Lion 1954
as Narrator
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home 1954
as Alphonsus Mannering
Blackbeard, the Pirate 1952
as Noll
Androcles and the Lion 1952
as Editor of Gladiators
Just Across the Street 1952
as Davis
Crosswinds 1951
as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
The Lady and the Bandit 1951
as Lord Charles Willoughby
The Jackpot 1950
as Leslie
Wagon Master 1950
as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
The Lone Wolf and His Lady 1949
as Jamison
You're My Everything 1949
as Joe Blanton
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff 1949
as Melton
The Lovable Cheat 1949
as Justin
Every Girl Should Be Married 1948
as Mr. Spitzer
My Dear Secretary 1948
as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
An Innocent Affair 1948
as Ken St. Clair
The Prince of Thieves 1948
as The Friar
The Main Street Kid 1948
as The Great Martine
Captain from Castile 1947
as Prof. Botello
Merton of the Movies 1947
as Frank Mulvaney
Lured 1947
as Lyle Maxwell
The Pilgrim Lady 1947
as Clifford Latimer
My Darling Clementine 1946
as Granville Thorndyke
Idea Girl 1946
as J. C. Crow
Terror by Night 1946
as Major Duncan-Bleek
Sunbonnet Sue 1945
as Jonathan
Men in Her Diary 1945
as Douglas Crane
Tell It to a Star 1945
as Col. Ambrose Morgan
Where Do We Go from Here? 1945
as General George Washington
The Phantom of 42nd Street 1945
as Cecil Moore
Earl Carroll Vanities 1945
as Grand Duke Paul
Bring on the Girls 1945
as August
My Gal Loves Music 1944
as Rodney Spoonyer
The Doughgirls 1944
as Breckinridge Drake
Ever Since Venus 1944
as J. Webster Hackett
His Butler's Sister 1943
as Buzz Jenkins
Holy Matrimony 1943
as Mr. Pennington
So This Is Washington 1943
as Chester W. Marshall
Stage Door Canteen 1943
as Alan Mowbray
Slightly Dangerous 1943
as English Gentleman
The Powers Girl 1943
as John Robert Powers
The Devil with Hitler 1942
as Gesatan
Panama Hattie 1942
as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
Isle of Missing Men 1942
as Dr. Brown
A Yank at Eton 1942
as Mr. Duncan
The Mad Martindales 1942
as Hugo Martindale
We Were Dancing 1942
as Grand Duke Basil
Yokel Boy 1942
as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
- Three Blonde Mice
Three Blonde Mice 1942
as Elmer Smith
The Perfect Snob 1941
as Freddie Browning
I Wake Up Screaming 1941
as Robin Ray
Moon Over Her Shoulder 1941
as Grover Sloan
Ice-Capades 1941
as Pete Ellis
- French Fried Patootie
French Fried Patootie 1941
Actor
The Cowboy and the Blonde 1941
as Phineas Johnson
That Hamilton Woman 1941
as Sir William Hamilton
That Uncertain Feeling 1941
as Doctor Vengard
Footlight Fever 1941
as Don Avery
The Quarterback 1940
as Professor Hobbs
The Villain Still Pursued Her 1940
as Silas Cribbs
The Boys from Syracuse 1940
as Angelo
Scatterbrain 1940
as J.R. Russell
Curtain Call 1940
as Donald Avery
Music in My Heart 1940
as Charles Spencer Gardner III
The Llano Kid 1939
as John Travers
Way Down South 1939
as Jacques Bouton
Never Say Die 1939
as le Prince Smirnov
Topper Takes a Trip 1938
as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
There Goes My Heart 1938
as Penny E. Pennypepper
Merrily We Live 1938
as Grosvenor
Hollywood Hotel 1938
as Alexander Duprey
Breakdowns of 1937 1937
as Self
Stand-In 1937
as Koslofski
Music for Madame 1937
as Leon Rodowsky
On Such a Night 1937
as Prof. Richard Candle
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 1937
as Henry Morgan
Topper 1937
as Wilkins
Marry the Girl 1937
as Dr. Stryker
As Good as Married 1937
as Wally
The King and the Chorus Girl 1937
as Donald Taylor
On the Avenue 1937
as Frederick Sims
Rainbow on the River 1936
as Ralph Layton
Four Days Wonder 1936
as Archibald Fenton
Ladies in Love 1936
as Paul Sandor
My Man Godfrey 1936
as Tommy Gray
Mary of Scotland 1936
as Throckmorton
Fatal Lady 1936
as Uberto Malla
The Case Against Mrs. Ames 1936
as Lawrence Waterson
Desire 1936
as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
Give Us This Night 1936
as Forcellini
Muss 'em Up 1936
as Paul Harding
Rose Marie 1936
as Premier
In Person 1935
as Jay Holmes
She Couldn't Take It 1935
as Alan Bartlett
The Gay Deception 1935
as Lord Clewe
Lady Tubbs 1935
as Elyot Wembsleigh
Becky Sharp 1935
as Rawdon Crawley
Night Life of the Gods 1935
as Hunter Hawk
Charlie Chan in London 1934
as Geoffrey Richmond
Embarrassing Moments 1934
as Aheam
One More River 1934
as Forsythe
The Girl from Missouri 1934
as Lord Douglas
Little Man, What Now? 1934
as Franz Schlüter
Where Sinners Meet 1934
as Nicholas
Cheaters 1934
as Paul Southern
The House of Rothschild 1934
as Prince Metternich
Long Lost Father 1934
as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
Her Secret 1933
as Nils Norton
Roman Scandals 1933
as Majordomo
The World Changes 1933
as Sir Philip Ivor
Berkeley Square 1933
as Major Clinton
Voltaire 1933
as Count de Sarnac
Midnight Club 1933
as Arthur Bradley
Peg o' My Heart 1933
as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
A Study in Scarlet 1933
as Lestrade
Sherlock Holmes 1932
as Colonel Gore-King
The Phantom President 1932
as George Washington (uncredited)
Two Against the World 1932
as George 'Georgie' Walton
The Man Called Back 1932
as King's Counsel
Winner Take All 1932
as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
Jewel Robbery 1932
as Detective Fritz
The Man from Yesterday 1932
as Dr. Waite
Man About Town 1932
as Ivan Boris
The World and the Flesh 1932
as Dimitri
Hotel Continental 1932
as Walter Underwood
The Silent Witness 1932
as Arthur Drinton
Lovers Courageous 1932
as Lamone
Nice Women 1931
as Mark Chandler
Honor of the Family 1931
as Tony Revere
Left Over Ladies 1931
as Jerry
Alexander Hamilton 1931
as George Washington
Guilty Hands 1931
as Gordon Rich
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons' 1931
as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
The Man in Possession 1931
as Sir Charles Cartwright
God's Gift to Women 1931
as Auguste, Toto's Butler
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