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