Holmes Herbert
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Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952.
Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940).
He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s.
Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955.
He died in 1956 at age 74.
Acted in
The Brigand
1952
as Archbishop
The Wild North
1952
as Magistrate (uncredited)
The Unknown Man
1951
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951
as Constable (uncredited)
Anne of the Indies
1951
as English Sea Captain
The Iroquois Trail
1950
as Gen. Johnson
Barbary Pirate
1949
as Thomas Jefferson
Post Office Investigator
1949
as James Seeley
Canadian Pacific
1949
as Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)
The Lost Tribe
1949
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
South of St. Louis
1949
Jungle Jim
1948
as Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden
Family Honeymoon
1948
as Rev. Miller (uncredited)
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
as Wilkins (uncredited)
Johnny Belinda
1948
as Judge (uncredited)
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
as Warder (uncredited)
The Wreck of the Hesperus
1948
as Pastor West
The Swordsman
1948
as Lord Glowan
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1947
as Inspector McIver
Singapore
1947
as Rev. Barnes
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
as Judge
Ivy
1947
as Mulloy (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
1947
as Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar
Over the Santa Fe Trail
1947
as Doc Henderson
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946
as Dr. White, Minister
The Verdict
1946
as Sir William Dawson
Dressed to Kill
1946
as Ebenezer Crabtree
Three Strangers
1946
as Sir Robert
Confidential Agent
1945
as Lord Benditch
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945
as Butler (uncredited)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945
Jealousy
1945
as Melvyn Russell
The House of Fear
1945
as Alan Cosgrave
The Mummy's Curse
1944
as Dr. Cooper
Enter Arsène Lupin
1944
as Jobson
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944
as Captain (uncredited)
The Unwritten Code
1944
as McDowell (uncredited)
The Pearl of Death
1944
as James Goodram, courier
The Uninvited
1944
as Charlie Jessup
Calling Dr. Death
1943
as Bryant, the Butler
Corvette K-225
1943
as Commodore Ramsay
Two Tickets to London
1943
as Kilgallen
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943
as Mr. Ahrens
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942
as Sir Reginald
The Undying Monster
1942
as Chief Constable (uncredited)
Strictly in the Groove
1942
as Commissioner
Invisible Agent
1942
as Sir Alfred Spencer
Lady in a Jam
1942
as Man at Auction (uncredited)
Danger in the Pacific
1942
as Commissioner
This Above All
1942
as Dr. Mathias
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
as Magistrate
Man Hunt
1941
as Saul Farnsworthy
The Letter
1940
as Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Boom Town
1940
as Doctor (uncredited)
Foreign Correspondent
1940
as Asst. Commissioner
Phantom Raiders
1940
as Sir Edward
An Angel from Texas
1940
as Second Banker
The Earl of Chicago
1940
as Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited)
Everything Happens at Night
1939
as Featherstone
We Are Not Alone
1939
as Police Inspector
Tower of London
1939
as Councilman (uncredited)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as Majordomo (uncredited)
British Intelligence
1939
as Arthur Bennett
Rulers of the Sea
1939
as Member of Naval Company (Uncredited)
20,000 Men a Year
1939
as Dean Norris
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939
as Doctor (Uncredited)
Hidden Power
1939
as Dr. Morley
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
as Justice of the Court
Stanley and Livingstone
1939
as Frederick Holcomb
Bad Boy
1939
as Mr. McNeil
The House of Fear
1939
as Minor Role
Juarez
1939
as Marshal Randon (uncredited)
Trapped in the Sky
1939
as Fielding
The Sun Never Sets
1939
as Colonial Official
Wolf Call
1939
as J.L. Winton
The Little Princess
1939
as Doctor
Mystery of the White Room
1939
as Hospital Administrator
The Mystery of Mr. Wong
1939
as Prof. Ed Janney
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939
as Bentham (uncredited)
Say It in French
1938
as Richard Carrington Sr.
Marie Antoinette
1938
as Herald (uncredited)
Kidnapped
1938
as Judge
The Buccaneer
1938
as Captain McWilliams
The Black Doll
1938
as Dr. Giddings
Here's Flash Casey
1938
as Maj. Addison
The Man Without a Country
1937
as Aaron Burr
The Girl Said No
1937
as Charles Dillon (scenes deleted)
Slave Ship
1937
as Commander
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
as Roscoe Crosby
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
as First Doctor
Lloyd's of London
1936
as Spokesman
The House of Secrets
1936
as Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary
15 Maiden Lane
1936
as Harold Anderson
The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936
as Chief Steward
The White Angel
1936
as War Minister (uncredited)
Champagne Charlie
1936
as Captain Dell
Brilliant Marriage
1936
as Mr. Rodney Allison
Wife vs. Secretary
1936
as Frawley (uncredited)
Captain Blood
1935
as Capt. Gardner
Accent on Youth
1935
as Frank Galloway
Mark of the Vampire
1935
as Sir Karell Borotyn
Cardinal Richelieu
1935
as Noble
One in a Million
1935
as Donald Cabot Sr.
Sons of Steel
1934
as Curtis Chadburne
The Curtain Falls
1934
as John Scorsby
The Pursuit of Happiness
1934
as Gen. Sir Henry Clinton
The House of Rothschild
1934
as Rowerth
Beloved
1934
as Lord Landslake
The Invisible Man
1933
as Chief of Police
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
as Dr. Rasmussen
Sister to Judas
1932
as Bruce Rogers
Central Park
1932
as Benefit Emcee (uncredited)
Miss Pinkerton
1932
as Arthur Glenn
Shop Angel
1932
as James Walton Kennedy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
as Dr. John Lanyon
Daughter of the Dragon
1931
as Sir John Petrie
Broadminded
1931
as John J. Hackett Sr.
Chances
1931
as Maj. Bradford
The Hot Heiress
1931
as Mr. Hunter
The Single Sin
1931
as Roger Van Dorn
The Ship from Shanghai
1930
as Paul Thorpe
Untamed
1929
as Howard Presley
The Kiss
1929
as Lassalle
The Thirteenth Chair
1929
as Sir Roscoe Crosby
The Careless Age
1929
as Sir John
Her Private Life
1929
as Rudolph Solomon
Madame X
1929
as Noel
Say It with Songs
1929
as Dr. Robert Merrill
Careers
1929
as Carouge
The Charlatan
1929
as Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
On Trial
1928
as Gerald Trask
Through the Breakers
1928
as Eustis Hobbs
The Terror
1928
as Goodman (as Holmes E. Herbert)
The Sporting Age
1928
as James Driscoll
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1928
as Henry Spoffard
The Silver Slave
1927
as Tom Richards
East Side, West Side
1927
as Gilbert Van Horn
The Gay Retreat
1927
as Charles Wright
When a Man Loves
1927
as Jean Tiberge
Slaves of Beauty
1927
as Leonard Jones
The Heart of Salome
1927
as Sir Humphrey
Mr. Wu
1927
as Mr. Gregory
One Increasing Purpose
1927
as Charles Paris
The Fire Brigade
1926
as James Corwin
Josselyn's Wife
1926
as Thomas Josselyn
The Honeymoon Express
1926
as Jim Donaldson
A Woman of the World
1925
as Richard Granger
The Wanderer
1925
as Prophet
Up the Ladder
1925
as Robert Newhall
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1925
Sinners in Heaven
1924
as Hugh Rochedale
Her Own Free Will
1924
as Peter Craddock
Another Scandal
1924
as Pelham Franklin
The Enchanted Cottage
1924
as Major Hillgrove
I Will Repay
1924
as Sir Percy Blakeney
A Woman's Woman
1922
as John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Moonshine Valley
1922
as Dr. Martin
Divorce Coupons
1922
as Roland Bland
Evidence
1922
as Judge Rowland
A Stage Romance
1922
as Prince of Wales
Any Wife
1922
as Philip Gray
The Family Closet
1921
as Alfred Dinsmore
The Wild Goose
1921
as Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Her Lord and Master
1921
as R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning
The Truth About Husbands
1920
as Dustan Renshaw
Dead Men Tell No Tales
1920
as Squire John Rattray
The Right to Love
1920
as Lord Falkland
Lady Rose's Daughter
1920
as Jacob Delafield
His House in Order
1920
as Filmer Jesson
Black Is White
1920
as Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert)
On with the Dance
1920
The ABC of Love
1919
as Harry Bryant
The White Heather
1919
as Lord Angus Cameron
Other Men's Wives
1919
as Fenwick Flint
Greater Than Love
1919
The Divorcee
1919
as Sir Paradine Fuldes
The Death Dance
1918
as Arnold Maitland
A Doll's House
1918
as Thorvald Helmar
The Man Without a Country
1917
as Lt. Philip Nolan
The Fisherwoman
1915
as The Son
His Wife
1915
as John Dennys