Alan Mowbray

Acting

August 17, 1896 – March 25, 1969 (died at 72)

London, England, UK

Male

144 Movies

35 TV Shows

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.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956 7.4

as Val Parnell

Age 59 (now 72)

Terror by Night

1946 6.6

as Major Duncan-Bleek

Age 49 (now 72)

My Man Godfrey

1936 7.6

as Tommy Gray

Age 40 (now 72)

That Hamilton Woman

1941 7.2

as Sir William Hamilton

Age 44 (now 72)

My Darling Clementine

1946 7.5

as Granville Thorndyke

Age 50 (now 72)

The King and I

1956 7.1

as Sir John Hay

Age 59 (now 72)

Topper

1937 6.7

as Wilkins

Age 40 (now 72)

Wagon Master

1950 6.7

as Dr. A. Locksley Hall

Age 53 (now 72)

Merrily We Live

1938 6.9

as Grosvenor

Age 41 (now 72)

That Uncertain Feeling

1941 6.6

as Doctor Vengard

Age 44 (now 72)

I Wake Up Screaming

1941 6.9

as Robin Ray

Age 45 (now 72)

Lured

1947 6.3

as Lyle Maxwell

Age 51 (now 72)

A Study in Scarlet

1933 5.6

as Lestrade

Age 36 (now 72)

Desire

1936 7.0

as Dr. Maurice Pauquet

Age 39 (now 72)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949 6.6

as Melton

Age 52 (now 72)

Topper Takes a Trip

1938 6.6

as Wilkins - Topper's Butler

Age 42 (now 72)

Broken Highway

1993 6.0

Armorer

Age 96 (now 72)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984 9.0

as (archive footage)

Age 87 (now 72)

A Majority of One

1961 5.9

as Captain Norcross

Age 65 (now 72)

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 6.7

as British Consul

Age 60 (now 72)

The King and I

1956 7.1

as Sir John Hay

Age 59 (now 72)

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956 7.4

as Val Parnell

Age 59 (now 72)

Once Upon a Honeymoon

1956 4.6

as Gordon

Age 59 (now 72)

The King's Thief

1955 6.3

as Sir Gilbert Talbot

Age 58 (now 72)

The Steel Cage

1954 7.0

as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"

Age 58 (now 72)

Social Lion

1954 6.4

as Narrator

Age 58 (now 72)

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

1954 6.5

as Alphonsus Mannering

Age 57 (now 72)

Blackbeard, the Pirate

1952 5.9

as Noll

Age 56 (now 72)

Androcles and the Lion

1952 5.9

as Editor of Gladiators

Age 56 (now 72)

Just Across the Street

1952 4.5

as Davis

Age 55 (now 72)

Crosswinds

1951 5.9

as The Hon Cecil Daubrey

Age 55 (now 72)

The Lady and the Bandit

1951 6.8

as Lord Charles Willoughby

Age 54 (now 72)

The Jackpot

1950 7.0

as Leslie

Age 54 (now 72)

Wagon Master

1950 6.7

as Dr. A. Locksley Hall

Age 53 (now 72)

The Lone Wolf and His Lady

1949 6.0

as Jamison

Age 52 (now 72)

You're My Everything

1949 4.8

as Joe Blanton

Age 52 (now 72)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949 6.6

as Melton

Age 52 (now 72)

The Lovable Cheat

1949 6.0

as Justin

Age 52 (now 72)

Every Girl Should Be Married

1948 6.0

as Mr. Spitzer

Age 52 (now 72)

My Dear Secretary

1948 6.1

as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)

Age 52 (now 72)

An Innocent Affair

1948 4.8

as Ken St. Clair

Age 52 (now 72)

The Prince of Thieves

1948 6.4

as The Friar

Age 51 (now 72)

The Main Street Kid

1948 10.0

as The Great Martine

Age 51 (now 72)

Captain from Castile

1947 7.2

as Prof. Botello

Age 51 (now 72)

Merton of the Movies

1947 6.3

as Frank Mulvaney

Age 51 (now 72)

Lured

1947 6.3

as Lyle Maxwell

Age 51 (now 72)

The Pilgrim Lady

1947 6.0

as Clifford Latimer

Age 50 (now 72)

My Darling Clementine

1946 7.5

as Granville Thorndyke

Age 50 (now 72)

Idea Girl

1946 8.0

as J. C. Crow

Age 49 (now 72)

Terror by Night

1946 6.6

as Major Duncan-Bleek

Age 49 (now 72)

Sunbonnet Sue

1945 6.2

as Jonathan

Age 49 (now 72)

Men in Her Diary

1945 9.0

as Douglas Crane

Age 49 (now 72)

Tell It to a Star

1945 10.0

as Col. Ambrose Morgan

Age 48 (now 72)

Where Do We Go from Here?

1945 5.4

as General George Washington

Age 48 (now 72)

The Phantom of 42nd Street

1945 4.8

as Cecil Moore

Age 48 (now 72)

Earl Carroll Vanities

1945 5.4

as Grand Duke Paul

Age 48 (now 72)

Bring on the Girls

1945 6.3

as August

Age 48 (now 72)

My Gal Loves Music

1944 10.0

as Rodney Spoonyer

Age 48 (now 72)

The Doughgirls

1944 7.6

as Breckinridge Drake

Age 48 (now 72)

Ever Since Venus

1944 10.0

as J. Webster Hackett

Age 48 (now 72)

His Butler's Sister

1943 7.2

as Buzz Jenkins

Age 47 (now 72)

Holy Matrimony

1943 6.8

as Mr. Pennington

Age 47 (now 72)

So This Is Washington

1943 5.3

as Chester W. Marshall

Age 46 (now 72)

Stage Door Canteen

1943 6.3

as Alan Mowbray

Age 46 (now 72)

Slightly Dangerous

1943 6.0

as English Gentleman

Age 46 (now 72)

The Powers Girl

1943 7.0

as John Robert Powers

Age 46 (now 72)

The Devil with Hitler

1942 6.2

as Gesatan

Age 46 (now 72)

Panama Hattie

1942 5.7

as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler

Age 46 (now 72)

Isle of Missing Men

1942 6.8

as Dr. Brown

Age 46 (now 72)

A Yank at Eton

1942 6.1

as Mr. Duncan

Age 46 (now 72)

The Mad Martindales

1942 7.5

as Hugo Martindale

Age 45 (now 72)

We Were Dancing

1942 4.3

as Grand Duke Basil

Age 45 (now 72)

Yokel Boy

1942 5.8

as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer

Age 45 (now 72)

Three Blonde Mice

1942 10.0

as Elmer Smith

Age 45 (now 72)

The Perfect Snob

1941 6.0

as Freddie Browning

Age 45 (now 72)

I Wake Up Screaming

1941 6.9

as Robin Ray

Age 45 (now 72)

Moon Over Her Shoulder

1941 7.0

as Grover Sloan

Age 45 (now 72)

Ice-Capades

1941 5.9

as Pete Ellis

Age 45 (now 72)

French Fried Patootie

1941 8.0

Age 44 (now 72)

The Cowboy and the Blonde

1941 7.0

as Phineas Johnson

Age 44 (now 72)

That Uncertain Feeling

1941 6.6

as Doctor Vengard

Age 44 (now 72)

That Hamilton Woman

1941 7.2

as Sir William Hamilton

Age 44 (now 72)

Footlight Fever

1941 7.0

as Don Avery

Age 44 (now 72)

The Quarterback

1940 10.0

as Professor Hobbs

Age 44 (now 72)

The Villain Still Pursued Her

1940 5.2

as Silas Cribbs

Age 44 (now 72)

The Boys from Syracuse

1940 6.4

as Angelo

Age 43 (now 72)

Scatterbrain

1940 7.5

as J.R. Russell

Age 43 (now 72)

Curtain Call

1940 7.3

as Donald Avery

Age 43 (now 72)

Music in My Heart

1940 6.5

as Charles Spencer Gardner III

Age 43 (now 72)

The Llano Kid

1939 7.0

as John Travers

Age 43 (now 72)

Way Down South

1939 6.4

as Jacques Bouton

Age 42 (now 72)

Never Say Die

1939 7.3

as le Prince Smirnov

Age 42 (now 72)

Topper Takes a Trip

1938 6.6

as Wilkins - Topper's Butler

Age 42 (now 72)

There Goes My Heart

1938 7.3

as Penny E. Pennypepper

Age 42 (now 72)

Merrily We Live

1938 6.9

as Grosvenor

Age 41 (now 72)

Hollywood Hotel

1938 5.8

as Alexander Duprey

Age 41 (now 72)

Breakdowns of 1937

1937 6.0

as Self

Age 41 (now 72)

Stand-In

1937 6.5

as Koslofski

Age 41 (now 72)

Music for Madame

1937 6.3

as Leon Rodowsky

Age 41 (now 72)

On Such a Night

1937 7.0

as Prof. Richard Candle

Age 41 (now 72)

Vogues of 1938

1937 5.5

as Henry Morgan

Age 40 (now 72)

Topper

1937 6.7

as Wilkins

Age 40 (now 72)

Marry the Girl

1937 6.5

as Dr. Stryker

Age 40 (now 72)

As Good as Married

1937 8.0

as Wally

Age 40 (now 72)

The King and the Chorus Girl

1937 6.2

as Donald Taylor

Age 40 (now 72)

On the Avenue

1937 7.2

as Frederick Sims

Age 40 (now 72)

Rainbow on the River

1936 8.7

as Ralph Layton

Age 40 (now 72)

Four Days Wonder

1936 9.0

as Archibald Fenton

Age 40 (now 72)

Ladies in Love

1936 6.5

as Paul Sandor

Age 40 (now 72)

My Man Godfrey

1936 7.6

as Tommy Gray

Age 40 (now 72)

Mary of Scotland

1936 6.2

as Throckmorton

Age 39 (now 72)

Fatal Lady

1936 10.0

as Uberto Malla

Age 39 (now 72)

The Case Against Mrs. Ames

1936 5.0

as Lawrence Waterson

Age 39 (now 72)

Desire

1936 7.0

as Dr. Maurice Pauquet

Age 39 (now 72)

Give Us This Night

1936 7.0

as Forcellini

Age 39 (now 72)

Muss 'em Up

1936 6.2

as Paul Harding

Age 39 (now 72)

Rose Marie

1936 6.4

as Premier

Age 39 (now 72)

In Person

1935 6.8

as Jay Holmes

Age 39 (now 72)

She Couldn't Take It

1935 5.3

as Alan Bartlett

Age 39 (now 72)

The Gay Deception

1935 6.3

as Lord Clewe

Age 39 (now 72)

Lady Tubbs

1935 7.5

as Elyot Wembsleigh

Age 38 (now 72)

Becky Sharp

1935 5.8

as Rawdon Crawley

Age 38 (now 72)

Night Life of the Gods

1935 7.0

as Hunter Hawk

Age 38 (now 72)

Charlie Chan in London

1934 6.9

as Geoffrey Richmond

Age 38 (now 72)

Embarrassing Moments

1934 9.0

as Aheam

Age 38 (now 72)

One More River

1934 5.2

as Forsythe

Age 37 (now 72)

The Girl from Missouri

1934 7.4

as Lord Douglas

Age 37 (now 72)

Little Man, What Now?

1934 6.3

as Franz Schlüter

Age 37 (now 72)

Where Sinners Meet

1934 4.4

as Nicholas

Age 37 (now 72)

Cheaters

1934 10.0

as Paul Southern

Age 37 (now 72)

The House of Rothschild

1934 6.2

as Prince Metternich

Age 37 (now 72)

Long Lost Father

1934 5.9

as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding

Age 37 (now 72)

Her Secret

1933 9.0

as Nils Norton

Age 37 (now 72)

Roman Scandals

1933 5.9

as Majordomo

Age 37 (now 72)

The World Changes

1933 4.8

as Sir Philip Ivor

Age 37 (now 72)

Berkeley Square

1933 5.9

as Major Clinton

Age 37 (now 72)

Voltaire

1933 6.2

as Count de Sarnac

Age 36 (now 72)

Midnight Club

1933 9.0

as Arthur Bradley

Age 36 (now 72)

Peg o' My Heart

1933 5.0

as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent

Age 36 (now 72)

A Study in Scarlet

1933 5.6

as Lestrade

Age 36 (now 72)

Sherlock Holmes

1932 5.9

as Colonel Gore-King

Age 36 (now 72)

The Phantom President

1932 6.4

as George Washington (uncredited)

Age 36 (now 72)

Two Against the World

1932 5.5

as George 'Georgie' Walton

Age 36 (now 72)

Winner Take All

1932 5.4

as Forbes, the etiquette teacher

Age 35 (now 72)

The Man Called Back

1932 6.0

as King's Counsel

Age 35 (now 72)

Jewel Robbery

1932 6.5

as Detective Fritz

Age 35 (now 72)

The Man from Yesterday

1932 5.2

as Dr. Waite

Age 35 (now 72)

Man About Town

1932 7.0

as Ivan Boris

Age 35 (now 72)

The World and the Flesh

1932 7.7

as Dimitri

Age 35 (now 72)

Hotel Continental

1932 8.0

as Walter Underwood

Age 35 (now 72)

The Silent Witness

1932 7.0

as Arthur Drinton

Age 35 (now 72)

Lovers Courageous

1932 6.0

as Lamone

Age 35 (now 72)

Nice Women

1931 8.0

as Mark Chandler

Age 35 (now 72)

Honor of the Family

1931 7.0

as Tony Revere

Age 35 (now 72)

Left Over Ladies

1931 7.0

as Jerry

Age 35 (now 72)

Alexander Hamilton

1931 4.4

as George Washington

Age 35 (now 72)

Guilty Hands

1931 5.9

as Gordon Rich

Age 35 (now 72)

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'

1931 8.0

as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)

Age 34 (now 72)

The Man in Possession

1931 6.7

as Sir Charles Cartwright

Age 34 (now 72)

God's Gift to Women

1931 4.8

as Auguste, Toto's Butler

Age 34 (now 72)