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Alan Mowbray

Alan Mowbray

Birthday: 1896-08-18 | Place of Birth: London, England, UK

​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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1961
The King and I

as    Sir John Hay

1960
Dante

as    Stewart Styles

1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much

as    Val Parnell

1952
Androcles and the Lion

as    Editor of Gladiators

1952
Blackbeard, the Pirate

as    Noll

1951
The Lady and the Bandit

as    Lord Charles Willoughby

1951
Crosswinds

as    The Hon Cecil Daubrey

1950
Wagon Master

as    Dr. A. Locksley Hall

1948
My Dear Secretary

as    Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)

1948
Every Girl Should Be Married

as    Mr. Spitzer

1948
The Prince Of Thieves

as    The Friar

1947
Merton of the Movies

as    Frank Mulvaney

1947
Lured

as    Lyle Maxwell

1947
Captain from Castile

as    Prof. Botello

1946
My Darling Clementine

as    Granville Thorndyke

1946
Terror by Night

as    Major Duncan-Bleek

1945
The Phantom of 42nd Street

as    Cecil Moore

1945
Tell It to a Star

as    Col. Ambrose Morgan

1945
Where Do We Go from Here?

as    General George Washington

1945
Earl Carroll Vanities

as    Grand Duke Paul

1944
The Doughgirls

as    Breckinridge Drake

1943
Slightly Dangerous

as    English Gentleman

1943
The Powers Girl

as    John Robert Powers

1942
Isle of Missing Men

as    Dr. Brown

1942
We Were Dancing

as    Grand Duke Basil

1942
A Yank at Eton

as    Mr. Duncan

1942
Yokel Boy

as    R.B. Harris - Movie Producer

1941
I Wake Up Screaming

as    Robin Ray

1941
That Hamilton Woman

as    Sir William Hamilton