Person Details

Birthday: 1894-03-05 16:21:19

Death: 1963-10-31 16:21:19

Aliases: Henry Daniel

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Barnes, Surrey, UK

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Movie Involvements: 52

TV Involvements: 11


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled "Daniel". Daniell's film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like "garbage", a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series: The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco. Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn't fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces. Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughton's blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood", with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughton's leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957). The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis' supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actor's career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, "A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance."

Most Famous Work

Lux Video Theatre
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6

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) Lord Belmont
The Philco Television Playhouse
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6

The Philco Television Playhouse

(1948) Colonel Chart
Combat!
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8

Combat!

(1962) Minister
Wagon Train
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6

Wagon Train

(1957) Morton W. Snipple
Thriller
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6

Thriller

(1960) Vicar John Weatherford
Riverboat
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6

Riverboat

(1959) Graham
The Islanders
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The Islanders

(1960) Jarden
Witness for the Prosecution
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8

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2007 Self
1964 Ambassador (uncredited)
1962 Court-martial Judge (uncredited)
Dr. Jonas
Minister
Sheik Ageiba
Stranger
1961 Gireaux
Dr. Zucco
Stipe
1960 Jarden
Vicar John Weatherford
Dirk Van Prinn
Squire Moloch
Count Alexander Cagliostro
Pierre Radin
1959 Dr. Emil Zurich
Graham
1958 Morgana
N/A
N/A
N/A
1957 Mayhew
Pierre Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais
Judge
N/A
Morton W. Snipple
Doctor
Mr. Earnshaw
1956 Theodorus van Gogh
Bill Ogden
N/A
Gondi
1955 N/A
Ramadi
1954 N/A
Mekere
1951 Count Maverin
1950 Lord Belmont
Capt. Duval
1949 Maj. Edward Chevenish
Blades
1948 Jacques Desaix
N/A
Colonel Chart
1947 Colonel Ingram
Franz Liszt
1946 N/A
The Regent - William of Pembroke
Mr. Manningham
1945 King William III
Professor James Moriarty
Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane
Baron Von Stetten
Mr. Simmons
1943 Henry Brocklehurst
Phili Von Ramme
Minister von Ribbentrop
William Easter
1942 Emile Fleuron
Frederick Seamon
Capt. Edgar Stafford
Sir Anthony Lloyd
Watson King
Bobo
1941 Shelley Mason
Julian Davis
Public Prosecutor
1940 Sidney Kidd
Garbitsch
Lord Wolfingham
Broussais
1939 Sir Ronald Dawson
Sir Robert Cecil
1938 La Motte
Seton Cram
1937 General Savary
Lerocle
John Wales
Professor Marvin Griswald
1936 Baron de Varville
Hugh Lewis
1930 Count von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel)
1929 Clement
Norman Warriner
Year Character Movie/Tv

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