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Aliases: Allan Mowbray , Alfred Ernest Allen
Gender: Male
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 62
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
(1958) CarlsonBurke's Law
(1963) ButterfieldDante
(1960) Stewart StylesThe Man Who Knew Too Much
(1956) Val ParnellThe King and I
(1956) Sir John HayWagon Master
(1950) Dr. A. Locksley HallMy Darling Clementine
(1946) Granville ThorndykeLured
(1947) Lyle MaxwellActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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1984 | (archive footage) | |
1967 | Father Duffy | |
1965 | N/A | |
1964 | Harry Blackburn | |
1963 | Lucius J. Penrose | |
Butterfield | ||
N/A | ||
1962 | Montrose | |
1961 | Captain Norcross | |
1960 | Stewart Styles | |
1959 | N/A | |
1958 | Carlson | |
1957 | Luke Abigor | |
Self | ||
Osgood | ||
Jack Bell | ||
1956 | British Consul | |
Hadley Dexter | ||
Sir John Hay | ||
Val Parnell | ||
Gordon | ||
1955 | N/A | |
Sir Gilbert Talbot | ||
Hawthorne | ||
1954 | Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef" | |
Narrator | ||
Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor | ||
Alphonsus Mannering | ||
1953 | N/A | |
Uncle Baxter | ||
1952 | Noll | |
Editor of Gladiators | ||
N/A | ||
Orville | ||
N/A | ||
Jackson | ||
Albert | ||
Jackson - Waiter | ||
Davis | ||
N/A | ||
1951 | Mayor Perkins | |
The Hon Cecil Daubrey | ||
Explorer Radccliffe | ||
Lord Charles Willoughby | ||
1950 | Leslie | |
Professor Bradford | ||
Carter | ||
Dr. A. Locksley Hall | ||
N/A | ||
1949 | Jamison | |
Joe Blanton | ||
Melton | ||
Justin | ||
1948 | Mr. Spitzer | |
Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency) | ||
Ken St. Clair | ||
The Friar | ||
The Great Martine | ||
1947 | Prof. Botello | |
Frank Mulvaney | ||
Lyle Maxwell | ||
Clifford Latimer | ||
1946 | Granville Thorndyke | |
J. C. Crow | ||
Major Duncan-Bleek | ||
1945 | Jonathan | |
Douglas Crane | ||
Col. Ambrose Morgan | ||
General George Washington | ||
Cecil Moore | ||
Grand Duke Paul | ||
August | ||
1944 | Rodney Spoonyer | |
Breckinridge Drake | ||
J. Webster Hackett | ||
1943 | Buzz Jenkins | |
Mr. Pennington | ||
Chester W. Marshall | ||
Alan Mowbray | ||
English Gentleman | ||
John Robert Powers | ||
1942 | Gesatan | |
Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler | ||
Dr. Brown | ||
Mr. Duncan | ||
Hugo Martindale | ||
Grand Duke Basil | ||
R.B. Harris - Movie Producer | ||
Elmer Smith | ||
1941 | Freddie Browning | |
Robin Ray | ||
Grover Sloan | ||
Pete Ellis | ||
N/A | ||
Phineas Johnson | ||
Doctor Vengard | ||
Sir William Hamilton | ||
Don Avery | ||
1940 | Professor Hobbs | |
Silas Cribbs | ||
Angelo | ||
J.R. Russell | ||
Donald Avery | ||
Charles Spencer Gardner III | ||
1939 | John Travers | |
Jacques Bouton | ||
le Prince Smirnov | ||
1938 | Wilkins - Topper's Butler | |
Penny E. Pennypepper | ||
Grosvenor | ||
Alexander Duprey | ||
1937 | Self | |
Koslofski | ||
Leon Rodowsky | ||
Prof. Richard Candle | ||
Henry Morgan | ||
Wilkins | ||
Dr. Stryker | ||
Wally | ||
Donald Taylor | ||
Frederick Sims | ||
1936 | Ralph Layton | |
Archibald Fenton | ||
Paul Sandor | ||
Tommy Gray | ||
Throckmorton | ||
Uberto Malla | ||
Lawrence Waterson | ||
Dr. Maurice Pauquet | ||
Forcellini | ||
Paul Harding | ||
Premier | ||
1935 | Jay Holmes | |
Alan Bartlett | ||
Lord Clewe | ||
Elyot Wembsleigh | ||
Rawdon Crawley | ||
Hunter Hawk | ||
1934 | Geoffrey Richmond | |
Aheam | ||
Forsythe | ||
Lord Douglas | ||
Franz Schlüter | ||
Nicholas | ||
Paul Southern | ||
Prince Metternich | ||
Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding | ||
1933 | Nils Norton | |
Majordomo | ||
Sir Philip Ivor | ||
Major Clinton | ||
Count de Sarnac | ||
Arthur Bradley | ||
Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent | ||
Lestrade | ||
1932 | Colonel Gore-King | |
George Washington (uncredited) | ||
George 'Georgie' Walton | ||
Forbes, the etiquette teacher | ||
King's Counsel | ||
Detective Fritz | ||
Dr. Waite | ||
Ivan Boris | ||
Dimitri | ||
Walter Underwood | ||
Arthur Drinton | ||
Lamone | ||
1931 | Mark Chandler | |
Tony Revere | ||
Jerry | ||
George Washington | ||
Gordon Rich | ||
Mr. Mowbray (uncredited) | ||
Sir Charles Cartwright | ||
Auguste, Toto's Butler | ||
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |