Actor
· Acting
Alan Mowbray
Born 1896-08-17
Died 1969-03-25
📍 London, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography 162
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
The Flying Nun
as Father Duffy
1967
Mister Roberts
1965
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Harry Blackburn
1964
Petticoat Junction
as Lucius J. Penrose
1963
Burke's Law
as Butterfield
1963
The Patty Duke Show
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Montrose
1962
A Majority of One
as Captain Norcross
1961
The Investigators
as Cranshaw
1961
Dante
as Stewart Styles
1960
Startime
as King Arthur
1959
Fibber McGee & Molly
1959
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as Carlson
1958
Maverick
as Luke Abigor
1957
Meet McGraw
as Osgood
1957
Blondie
as Jack Bell
1957
Around the World in 80 Days
as British Consul
1956
The King and I
as Sir John Hay
1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Val Parnell
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
The King's Thief
as Sir Gilbert Talbot
1955
The Bob Cummings Show
as Hawthorne
1955
The Steel Cage
as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
1954
Social Lion
as Narrator
1954
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
as Alphonsus Mannering
1954
The Life Of Riley
as Uncle Baxter
1953
Blackbeard, the Pirate
as Noll
1952
Androcles and the Lion
as Editor of Gladiators
1952
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
as Orville
1952
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
Just Across the Street
as Davis
1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mayor Perkins
1951
Crosswinds
as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
1951
The Red Skelton Show
as Explorer Radccliffe
1951
The Lady and the Bandit
as Lord Charles Willoughby
1951
The Jackpot
as Leslie
1950
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
as Professor Bradford
1950
Wagon Master
as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
as Jamison
1949
You're My Everything
as Joe Blanton
1949
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
as Melton
1949
The Lovable Cheat
as Justin
1949
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Mr. Spitzer
1948
My Dear Secretary
as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
1948
An Innocent Affair
as Ken St. Clair
1948
The Prince of Thieves
as The Friar
1948
The Main Street Kid
as The Great Martine
1948
Captain from Castile
as Prof. Botello
1947
Merton of the Movies
as Frank Mulvaney
1947
Lured
as Lyle Maxwell
1947
The Pilgrim Lady
as Clifford Latimer
1947
My Darling Clementine
as Granville Thorndyke
1946
Terror by Night
as Major Duncan-Bleek
1946
Sunbonnet Sue
as Jonathan
1945
Men in Her Diary
as Douglas Crane
1945
Tell It to a Star
as Col. Ambrose Morgan
1945
Where Do We Go from Here?
as General George Washington
1945
The Phantom of 42nd Street
as Cecil Moore
1945
Earl Carroll Vanities
as Grand Duke Paul
1945
Bring on the Girls
as August
1945
My Gal Loves Music
as Rodney Spoonyer
1944
The Doughgirls
as Breckinridge Drake
1944
Ever Since Venus
as J. Webster Hackett
1944
His Butler's Sister
as Buzz Jenkins
1943
Holy Matrimony
as Mr. Pennington
1943
So This Is Washington
as Chester W. Marshall
1943
Stage Door Canteen
as Alan Mowbray
1943
Slightly Dangerous
as English Gentleman
1943
The Powers Girl
as John Robert Powers
1943
The Devil with Hitler
as Gesatan
1942
Panama Hattie
as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
1942
Isle of Missing Men
as Dr. Brown
1942
A Yank at Eton
as Mr. Duncan
1942
The Mad Martindales
as Hugo Martindale
1942
We Were Dancing
as Grand Duke Basil
1942
Yokel Boy
as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
1942
The Perfect Snob
as Freddie Browning
1941
I Wake Up Screaming
as Robin Ray
1941
Moon Over Her Shoulder
as Grover Sloan
1941
Ice-Capades
as Pete Ellis
1941
The Cowboy and the Blonde
as Phineas Johnson
1941
That Uncertain Feeling
as Doctor Vengard
1941
That Hamilton Woman
as Sir William Hamilton
1941
Footlight Fever
as Don Avery
1941
The Quarterback
as Professor Hobbs
1940
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Silas Cribbs
1940
The Boys from Syracuse
as Angelo
1940
Scatterbrain
as J.R. Russell
1940
Curtain Call
as Donald Avery
1940
Music in My Heart
as Charles Spencer Gardner III
1940
The Llano Kid
as John Travers
1939
Way Down South
as Jacques Bouton
1939
Never Say Die
as le Prince Smirnov
1939
Topper Takes a Trip
as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
1938
There Goes My Heart
as Penny E. Pennypepper
1938
Merrily We Live
as Grosvenor
1938
Hollywood Hotel
as Alexander Duprey
1938
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
1937
Stand-In
as Koslofski
1937
Music for Madame
as Leon Rodowsky
1937
On Such a Night
as Prof. Richard Candle
1937
Vogues of 1938
as Henry Morgan
1937
Topper
as Wilkins
1937
Marry the Girl
as Dr. Stryker
1937
As Good as Married
as Wally
1937
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Donald Taylor
1937
On the Avenue
as Frederick Sims
1937
Rainbow on the River
as Ralph Layton
1936
Ladies in Love
as Paul Sandor
1936
My Man Godfrey
as Tommy Gray
1936
Mary of Scotland
as Throckmorton
1936
Fatal Lady
as Uberto Malla
1936
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Lawrence Waterson
1936
Desire
as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
1936
Give Us This Night
as Forcellini
1936
Muss 'em Up
as Paul Harding
1936
Rose Marie
as Premier
1936
In Person
as Jay Holmes
1935
She Couldn't Take It
as Alan Bartlett
1935
The Gay Deception
as Lord Clewe
1935
Lady Tubbs
as Elyot Wembsleigh
1935
Becky Sharp
as Rawdon Crawley
1935
Charlie Chan in London
as Geoffrey Richmond
1934
Embarrassing Moments
as Aheam
1934
One More River
as Forsythe
1934
The Girl from Missouri
as Lord Douglas
1934
Little Man, What Now?
as Franz Schlüter
1934
Where Sinners Meet
as Nicholas
1934
Cheaters
as Paul Southern
1934
The House of Rothschild
as Prince Metternich
1934
Long Lost Father
as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
1934
Her Secret
as Nils Norton
1933
Roman Scandals
as Majordomo
1933
The World Changes
as Sir Philip Ivor
1933
Berkeley Square
as Major Clinton
1933
Voltaire
as Count de Sarnac
1933
Midnight Club
as Arthur Bradley
1933
Peg o' My Heart
as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
1933
A Study in Scarlet
as Lestrade
1933
Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Gore-King
1932
The Phantom President
as George Washington (uncredited)
1932
Two Against the World
as George 'Georgie' Walton
1932
Winner Take All
as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
1932
The Man Called Back
as King's Counsel
1932
Jewel Robbery
as Detective Fritz
1932
The Man from Yesterday
as Dr. Waite
1932
Man About Town
as Ivan Boris
1932
The World and the Flesh
as Dimitri
1932
Hotel Continental
as Walter Underwood
1932
The Silent Witness
as Arthur Drinton
1932
Lovers Courageous
as Lamone
1932
Nice Women
as Mark Chandler
1931
Honor of the Family
as Tony Revere
1931
Left Over Ladies
as Jerry
1931
Alexander Hamilton
as George Washington
1931
Guilty Hands
as Gordon Rich
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
1931
The Man in Possession
as Sir Charles Cartwright
1931
God's Gift to Women
as Auguste, Toto's Butler
1931