Acting
Alan Mowbray
EN cinema · 144 credits
Born
17 August 1896
Died
25 March 1969 (aged 72)
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Also known as Allan Mowbray · Alfred Ernest Allen · Альфред Эрнест Аллен
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.
Known for
Filmography
Broken Highway
Armorer
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
A Majority of One
as Captain Norcross
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Val Parnell
The King and I
as John Hay
Around the World in 80 Days
as British Consul
The King's Thief
as Sir Gilbert Talbot
The Steel Cage
as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
as Alphonsus Mannering
Social Lion
as Narrator
Androcles and the Lion
as Editor of Gladiators
Crosswinds
as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
The Lady and the Bandit
as Lord Charles Willoughby
Wagon Master
as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
The Jackpot
as Leslie
The Lovable Cheat
as Justin
You're My Everything
as Joe Blanton
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
as Jamison
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Mr. Spitzer
An Innocent Affair
as Ken St. Clair
The Prince of Thieves
as The Friar
My Dear Secretary
as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
The Main Street Kid
as The Great Martine
Lured
as Lyle Maxwell
Merton of the Movies
as Frank Mulvaney
Captain from Castile
as Prof. Botello
The Pilgrim Lady
as Clifford Latimer
My Darling Clementine
as Granville Thorndyke
Terror by Night
as Major Duncan-Bleek
Idea Girl
as J. C. Crow
The Phantom of 42nd Street
as Cecil Moore
Tell It to a Star
as Col. Ambrose Morgan
Sunbonnet Sue
as Jonathan
Where Do We Go from Here?
as General George Washington
Earl Carroll Vanities
as Grand Duke Paul
Bring on the Girls
as August
Men in Her Diary
as Douglas Crane
The Doughgirls
as Breckinridge Drake
My Gal Loves Music
as Rodney Spoonyer
Ever Since Venus
as J. Webster Hackett
Holy Matrimony
as Mr. Pennington
Slightly Dangerous
as English Gentleman
The Powers Girl
as John Robert Powers
So This Is Washington
as Chester W. Marshall
Stage Door Canteen
as Alan Mowbray
His Butler's Sister
as Buzz Jenkins
The Devil with Hitler
as Gesatan
Panama Hattie
as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
Isle of Missing Men
as Dr. Brown
We Were Dancing
as Grand Duke Basil
A Yank at Eton
as Mr. Duncan
Yokel Boy
as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
Three Blonde Mice
1942
Three Blonde Mice
as Elmer Smith
The Mad Martindales
as Hugo Martindale
I Wake Up Screaming
as Robin Ray
That Hamilton Woman
as Sir William Hamilton
That Uncertain Feeling
as Doctor Vengard
The Perfect Snob
as Freddie Browning
Footlight Fever
as Don Avery
The Cowboy and the Blonde
as Phineas Johnson
Moon Over Her Shoulder
as Grover Sloan
Ice-Capades
as Pete Ellis
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Silas Cribbs
Music in My Heart
as Charles Spencer Gardner III
Curtain Call
as Donald Avery
Scatterbrain
as J.R. Russell
The Quarterback
as Professor Hobbs
The Boys from Syracuse
as Angelo
Way Down South
as Jacques Bouton
Never Say Die
as le Prince Smirnov
The Llano Kid
as John Travers
Hollywood Hotel
as Alexander Duprey
There Goes My Heart
as Penny E. Pennypepper
Topper Takes a Trip
as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
Merrily We Live
as Grosvenor
Topper
as Wilkins
On the Avenue
as Frederick Sims
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
as Henry Morgan
Stand-In
as Koslofski
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Donald Taylor
Music for Madame
as Leon Rodowsky
Marry the Girl
as Dr. Stryker
On Such a Night
as Prof. Richard Candle
As Good as Married
as Wally
My Man Godfrey
as Tommy Gray
Rose Marie
as Premier
Desire
as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
Muss 'em Up
as Paul Harding
Ladies in Love
as Paul Sandor
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Lawrence Waterson
Fatal Lady
as Uberto Malla
Mary of Scotland
as Throckmorton
Rainbow on the River
as Ralph Layton
Give Us This Night
as Forcellini
Four Days Wonder
as Archibald Fenton
Becky Sharp
as Rawdon Crawley
The Gay Deception
as Lord Clewe
In Person
as Jay Holmes
Night Life of the Gods
as Hunter Hawk
Lady Tubbs
as Elyot Wembsleigh
She Couldn't Take It
as Alan Bartlett
Charlie Chan in London
as Geoffrey Richmond
One More River
as Forsythe
Long Lost Father
as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
Little Man, What Now?
as Franz Schlüter
The House of Rothschild
as Prince Metternich
Cheaters
as Paul Southern
The Girl from Missouri
as Lord Douglas
Where Sinners Meet
as Nicholas
Embarrassing Moments
as Aheam
Roman Scandals
as Majordomo
A Study in Scarlet
as Lestrade
Berkeley Square
as Major Clinton
Peg o' My Heart
as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
Her Secret
as Nils Norton
Voltaire
as Count de Sarnac
The World Changes
as Sir Philip Ivor
Midnight Club
as Arthur Bradley
Jewel Robbery
as Detective Fritz
Winner Take All
as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
Hotel Continental
as Walter Underwood
Two Against the World
as George 'Georgie' Walton
The Man Called Back
as King's Counsel
The Phantom President
as George Washington (uncredited)
Man About Town
as Ivan Boris
The World and the Flesh
as Dimitri
The Silent Witness
as Arthur Drinton
The Man from Yesterday
as Dr. Waite
Lovers Courageous
as Lamone
Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Gore-King
The Man in Possession
as Sir Charles Cartwright
Alexander Hamilton
as George Washington
God's Gift to Women
as Auguste, Toto's Butler
Guilty Hands
as Gordon Rich
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
Left Over Ladies
as Jerry
Honor of the Family
as Tony Revere
Nice Women
as Mark Chandler