Alan Mowbray
Acting • Born 1896-08-17 – Died 1969-03-25
Biography
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
177 credits
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Movie • 1956
Val Parnell
My Darling Clementine
Movie • 1946
Granville Thorndyke
Terror by Night
Movie • 1946
Major Duncan-Bleek
Lured
Movie • 1947
Lyle Maxwell
I Wake Up Screaming
Movie • 1941
Robin Ray
Topper
Movie • 1937
Wilkins
Charlie Chan in London
Movie • 1934
Geoffrey Richmond
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Movie • 1949
Melton
My Man Godfrey
Movie • 1936
Tommy Gray
Wagon Master
Movie • 1950
Dr. A. Locksley Hall
Roman Scandals
Movie • 1933
Majordomo
Every Girl Should Be Married
Movie • 1948
Mr. Spitzer
That Hamilton Woman
Movie • 1941
Sir William Hamilton
That Uncertain Feeling
Movie • 1941
Doctor Vengard
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Movie • 1956
Gordon
Hollywood Hotel
Movie • 1938
Alexander Duprey
Becky Sharp
Movie • 1935
Rawdon Crawley
Rose Marie
Movie • 1936
Premier
A Study in Scarlet
Movie • 1933
Lestrade
The King and I
Movie • 1956
Sir John Hay
Crosswinds
Movie • 1951
The Hon Cecil Daubrey
A Majority of One
Movie • 1961
Captain Norcross
There Goes My Heart
Movie • 1938
Penny E. Pennypepper
Jewel Robbery
Movie • 1932
Detective Fritz
Winner Take All
Movie • 1932
Forbes, the etiquette teacher
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Movie • 1940
Silas Cribbs
The Lovable Cheat
Movie • 1949
Justin
You're My Everything
Movie • 1949
Joe Blanton
Topper Takes a Trip
Movie • 1938
Wilkins - Topper's Butler
The Gay Deception
Movie • 1935
Lord Clewe
Desire
Movie • 1936
Dr. Maurice Pauquet
The Devil with Hitler
Movie • 1942
Gesatan
The Man in Possession
Movie • 1931
Sir Charles Cartwright
The Doughgirls
Movie • 1944
Breckinridge Drake
One More River
Movie • 1934
Forsythe
Panama Hattie
Movie • 1942
Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
Berkeley Square
Movie • 1933
Major Clinton
Merton of the Movies
Movie • 1947
Frank Mulvaney
On the Avenue
Movie • 1937
Frederick Sims
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Movie • 1952
Noll
The King's Thief
Movie • 1955
Sir Gilbert Talbot
Merrily We Live
Movie • 1938
Grosvenor
The Steel Cage
Movie • 1954
Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
Way Down South
Movie • 1939
Jacques Bouton
Never Say Die
Movie • 1939
le Prince Smirnov
Vogues of 1938
Movie • 1937
Henry Morgan
Music in My Heart
Movie • 1940
Charles Spencer Gardner III
The Perfect Snob
Movie • 1941
Freddie Browning
Hotel Continental
Movie • 1932
Walter Underwood
The Phantom of 42nd Street
Movie • 1945
Cecil Moore
Stand-In
Movie • 1937
Koslofski
The King and the Chorus Girl
Movie • 1937
Donald Taylor
Peg o' My Heart
Movie • 1933
Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
Holy Matrimony
Movie • 1943
Mr. Pennington
Footlight Fever
Movie • 1941
Don Avery
Curtain Call
Movie • 1940
Donald Avery
Her Secret
Movie • 1933
Nils Norton
Music for Madame
Movie • 1937
Leon Rodowsky
Tell It to a Star
Movie • 1945
Col. Ambrose Morgan
In Person
Movie • 1935
Jay Holmes
Isle of Missing Men
Movie • 1942
Dr. Brown
The Lady and the Bandit
Movie • 1951
Lord Charles Willoughby
Muss 'em Up
Movie • 1936
Paul Harding
Night Life of the Gods
Movie • 1935
Hunter Hawk
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Movie • 1949
Jamison
Two Against the World
Movie • 1932
George 'Georgie' Walton
Ladies in Love
Movie • 1936
Paul Sandor
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Movie • 1936
Lawrence Waterson
Slightly Dangerous
Movie • 1943
English Gentleman
Voltaire
Movie • 1933
Count de Sarnac
The World Changes
Movie • 1933
Sir Philip Ivor
Midnight Club
Movie • 1933
Arthur Bradley
Marry the Girl
Movie • 1937
Dr. Stryker
We Were Dancing
Movie • 1942
Grand Duke Basil
The Llano Kid
Movie • 1939
John Travers
Long Lost Father
Movie • 1934
Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
Lady Tubbs
Movie • 1935
Elyot Wembsleigh
Little Man, What Now?
Movie • 1934
Franz Schlüter
The House of Rothschild
Movie • 1934
Prince Metternich
Alexander Hamilton
Movie • 1931
George Washington
An Innocent Affair
Movie • 1948
Ken St. Clair
She Couldn't Take It
Movie • 1935
Alan Bartlett
Sunbonnet Sue
Movie • 1945
Jonathan
Cheaters
Movie • 1934
Paul Southern
God's Gift to Women
Movie • 1931
Auguste, Toto's Butler
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
The Prince of Thieves
Movie • 1948
The Friar
Where Do We Go from Here?
Movie • 1945
General George Washington
Scatterbrain
Movie • 1940
J.R. Russell
Fatal Lady
Movie • 1936
Uberto Malla
The Cowboy and the Blonde
Movie • 1941
Phineas Johnson
The Girl from Missouri
Movie • 1934
Lord Douglas
The Powers Girl
Movie • 1943
John Robert Powers
Captain from Castile
Movie • 1947
Prof. Botello
Mary of Scotland
Movie • 1936
Throckmorton
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Movie • 1954
Alphonsus Mannering
A Yank at Eton
Movie • 1942
Mr. Duncan
Androcles and the Lion
Movie • 1952
Editor of Gladiators
So This Is Washington
Movie • 1943
Chester W. Marshall
The Man Called Back
Movie • 1932
King's Counsel
On Such a Night
Movie • 1937
Prof. Richard Candle
Where Sinners Meet
Movie • 1934
Nicholas
Yokel Boy
Movie • 1942
R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
Rainbow on the River
Movie • 1936
Ralph Layton
The Phantom President
Movie • 1932
George Washington (uncredited)
My Dear Secretary
Movie • 1948
Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
Give Us This Night
Movie • 1936
Forcellini
The Main Street Kid
Movie • 1948
The Great Martine
Stage Door Canteen
Movie • 1943
Alan Mowbray
Four Days Wonder
Movie • 1936
Archibald Fenton
The Quarterback
Movie • 1940
Professor Hobbs
Moon Over Her Shoulder
Movie • 1941
Grover Sloan
My Gal Loves Music
Movie • 1944
Rodney Spoonyer
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
British Consul
The Boys from Syracuse
Movie • 1940
Angelo
Man About Town
Movie • 1932
Ivan Boris
Guilty Hands
Movie • 1931
Gordon Rich
The World and the Flesh
Movie • 1932
Dimitri
The Silent Witness
Movie • 1932
Arthur Drinton
The Man from Yesterday
Movie • 1932
Dr. Waite
Earl Carroll Vanities
Movie • 1945
Grand Duke Paul
Bring on the Girls
Movie • 1945
August
Ever Since Venus
Movie • 1944
J. Webster Hackett
His Butler's Sister
Movie • 1943
Buzz Jenkins
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
Movie • 1931
Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
Three Blonde Mice
Movie • 1942
Elmer Smith
French Fried Patootie
Movie • 1941
Left Over Ladies
Movie • 1931
Jerry
Breakdowns of 1937
Movie • 1937
Self
Lovers Courageous
Movie • 1932
Lamone
As Good as Married
Movie • 1937
Wally
The Mad Martindales
Movie • 1942
Hugo Martindale
Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1932
Colonel Gore-King
Men in Her Diary
Movie • 1945
Douglas Crane
Honor of the Family
Movie • 1931
Tony Revere
Ice-Capades
Movie • 1941
Pete Ellis
Embarrassing Moments
Movie • 1934
Aheam
Idea Girl
Movie • 1946
J. C. Crow
Nice Women
Movie • 1931
Mark Chandler
The Jackpot
Movie • 1950
Leslie
Social Lion
Movie • 1954
Narrator
Just Across the Street
Movie • 1952
Davis
The Pilgrim Lady
Movie • 1947
Clifford Latimer
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Butterfield
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Montrose
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Lucius J. Penrose
Mister Roberts
TV • 1965
Colonel Humphrey Flack
TV • 1953
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Carter
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Mayor Perkins
The Patty Duke Show
TV • 1963
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Fibber McGee & Molly
TV • 1959
Dante
TV • 1960
Stewart Styles
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Flying Nun
TV • 1967
Father Duffy
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Harry Blackburn
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TV • 1958
Carlson
The Bob Cummings Show
TV • 1955
Hawthorne
Meet McGraw
TV • 1957
Osgood
The Gale Storm Show
TV • 1956
Hadley Dexter
Hey Mulligan
TV • 1954
Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor
Maverick
TV • 1957
Luke Abigor
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV • 1952
Orville
The Life Of Riley
TV • 1953
Uncle Baxter
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Explorer Radccliffe
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
TV • 1950
Professor Bradford
Chevron Theatre
TV • 1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Jackson
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Albert
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Jackson - Waiter
Blondie
TV • 1957
Jack Bell
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
TV • 1953
The Investigators
TV • 1961
Cranshaw