Alan Mowbray

Biography

​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

Maverick

Petticoat Junction

Robert Montgomery Presents

The Beverly Hillbillies

Matinee Theater

The Red Skelton Show

Burke's Law

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

All Movies (143)

• Going Hollywood: The '30s1984 · as (archive footage)
• A Majority of One1961 · as Captain Norcross
• Around the World in 80 Days1956 · as British Consul
• The King and I1956 · as Sir John Hay
• The Man Who Knew Too Much1956 · as Val Parnell
• Once Upon a Honeymoon1956 · as Gordon
• The King's Thief1955 · as Sir Gilbert Talbot
• The Steel Cage1954 · as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
• Social Lion1954 · as Narrator
• Ma and Pa Kettle at Home1954 · as Alphonsus Mannering
• Blackbeard, the Pirate1952 · as Noll
• Androcles and the Lion1952 · as Editor of Gladiators
• Just Across the Street1952 · as Davis
• Crosswinds1951 · as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
• The Lady and the Bandit1951 · as Lord Charles Willoughby
• The Jackpot1950 · as Leslie
• Wagon Master1950 · as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
• The Lone Wolf and His Lady1949 · as Jamison
• You're My Everything1949 · as Joe Blanton
• Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff1949 · as Melton
• The Lovable Cheat1949 · as Justin
• Every Girl Should Be Married1948 · as Mr. Spitzer
• My Dear Secretary1948 · as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
• An Innocent Affair1948 · as Ken St. Clair
• The Prince of Thieves1948 · as The Friar
• The Main Street Kid1948 · as The Great Martine
• Captain from Castile1947 · as Prof. Botello
• Merton of the Movies1947 · as Frank Mulvaney
• Lured1947 · as Lyle Maxwell
• The Pilgrim Lady1947 · as Clifford Latimer
• My Darling Clementine1946 · as Granville Thorndyke
• Idea Girl1946 · as J. C. Crow
• Terror by Night1946 · as Major Duncan-Bleek
• Sunbonnet Sue1945 · as Jonathan
• Men in Her Diary1945 · as Douglas Crane
• Tell It to a Star1945 · as Col. Ambrose Morgan
• Where Do We Go from Here?1945 · as General George Washington
• The Phantom of 42nd Street1945 · as Cecil Moore
• Earl Carroll Vanities1945 · as Grand Duke Paul
• Bring on the Girls1945 · as August
• My Gal Loves Music1944 · as Rodney Spoonyer
• The Doughgirls1944 · as Breckinridge Drake
• Ever Since Venus1944 · as J. Webster Hackett
• His Butler's Sister1943 · as Buzz Jenkins
• Holy Matrimony1943 · as Mr. Pennington
• So This Is Washington1943 · as Chester W. Marshall
• Stage Door Canteen1943 · as Alan Mowbray
• Slightly Dangerous1943 · as English Gentleman
• The Powers Girl1943 · as John Robert Powers
• The Devil with Hitler1942 · as Gesatan
• Panama Hattie1942 · as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
• Isle of Missing Men1942 · as Dr. Brown
• A Yank at Eton1942 · as Mr. Duncan
• The Mad Martindales1942 · as Hugo Martindale
• We Were Dancing1942 · as Grand Duke Basil
• Yokel Boy1942 · as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
• Three Blonde Mice1942 · as Elmer Smith
• The Perfect Snob1941 · as Freddie Browning
• I Wake Up Screaming1941 · as Robin Ray
• Moon Over Her Shoulder1941 · as Grover Sloan
• Ice-Capades1941 · as Pete Ellis
• French Fried Patootie1941
• The Cowboy and the Blonde1941 · as Phineas Johnson
• That Uncertain Feeling1941 · as Doctor Vengard
• That Hamilton Woman1941 · as Sir William Hamilton
• Footlight Fever1941 · as Don Avery
• The Quarterback1940 · as Professor Hobbs
• The Villain Still Pursued Her1940 · as Silas Cribbs
• The Boys from Syracuse1940 · as Angelo
• Scatterbrain1940 · as J.R. Russell
• Curtain Call1940 · as Donald Avery
• Music in My Heart1940 · as Charles Spencer Gardner III
• The Llano Kid1939 · as John Travers
• Way Down South1939 · as Jacques Bouton
• Never Say Die1939 · as le Prince Smirnov
• Topper Takes a Trip1938 · as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
• There Goes My Heart1938 · as Penny E. Pennypepper
• Merrily We Live1938 · as Grosvenor
• Hollywood Hotel1938 · as Alexander Duprey
• Breakdowns of 19371937 · as Self
• Stand-In1937 · as Koslofski
• Music for Madame1937 · as Leon Rodowsky
• On Such a Night1937 · as Prof. Richard Candle
• Vogues of 19381937 · as Henry Morgan
• Topper1937 · as Wilkins
• Marry the Girl1937 · as Dr. Stryker
• As Good as Married1937 · as Wally
• The King and the Chorus Girl1937 · as Donald Taylor
• On the Avenue1937 · as Frederick Sims
• Rainbow on the River1936 · as Ralph Layton
• Four Days Wonder1936 · as Archibald Fenton
• Ladies in Love1936 · as Paul Sandor
• My Man Godfrey1936 · as Tommy Gray
• Mary of Scotland1936 · as Throckmorton
• Fatal Lady1936 · as Uberto Malla
• The Case Against Mrs. Ames1936 · as Lawrence Waterson
• Desire1936 · as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
• Give Us This Night1936 · as Forcellini
• Muss 'em Up1936 · as Paul Harding
• Rose Marie1936 · as Premier
• In Person1935 · as Jay Holmes
• She Couldn't Take It1935 · as Alan Bartlett
• The Gay Deception1935 · as Lord Clewe
• Lady Tubbs1935 · as Elyot Wembsleigh
• Becky Sharp1935 · as Rawdon Crawley
• Night Life of the Gods1935 · as Hunter Hawk
• Charlie Chan in London1934 · as Geoffrey Richmond
• Embarrassing Moments1934 · as Aheam
• One More River1934 · as Forsythe
• The Girl from Missouri1934 · as Lord Douglas
• Little Man, What Now?1934 · as Franz Schlüter
• Where Sinners Meet1934 · as Nicholas
• Cheaters1934 · as Paul Southern
• The House of Rothschild1934 · as Prince Metternich
• Long Lost Father1934 · as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
• Her Secret1933 · as Nils Norton
• Roman Scandals1933 · as Majordomo
• The World Changes1933 · as Sir Philip Ivor
• Berkeley Square1933 · as Major Clinton
• Voltaire1933 · as Count de Sarnac
• Midnight Club1933 · as Arthur Bradley
• Peg o' My Heart1933 · as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
• A Study in Scarlet1933 · as Lestrade
• Sherlock Holmes1932 · as Colonel Gore-King
• The Phantom President1932 · as George Washington (uncredited)
• Two Against the World1932 · as George 'Georgie' Walton
• Winner Take All1932 · as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
• The Man Called Back1932 · as King's Counsel
• Jewel Robbery1932 · as Detective Fritz
• The Man from Yesterday1932 · as Dr. Waite
• Man About Town1932 · as Ivan Boris
• The World and the Flesh1932 · as Dimitri
• Hotel Continental1932 · as Walter Underwood
• The Silent Witness1932 · as Arthur Drinton
• Lovers Courageous1932 · as Lamone
• Nice Women1931 · as Mark Chandler
• Honor of the Family1931 · as Tony Revere
• Left Over Ladies1931 · as Jerry
• Alexander Hamilton1931 · as George Washington
• Guilty Hands1931 · as Gordon Rich
• How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'1931 · as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
• The Man in Possession1931 · as Sir Charles Cartwright
• God's Gift to Women1931 · as Auguste, Toto's Butler

All TV Shows (35)

• The Flying Nun1967 · as Father Duffy
• Mister Roberts1965
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.1964 · as Harry Blackburn
• Petticoat Junction1963 · as Lucius J. Penrose
• Burke's Law1963 · as Butterfield
• The Patty Duke Show1963
• The Beverly Hillbillies1962 · as Montrose
• The Investigators1961 · as Cranshaw
• Dante1960 · as Stewart Styles
• Startime1959 · as King Arthur
• Fibber McGee & Molly1959
• Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer1958 · as Carlson
• Maverick1957 · as Luke Abigor
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar1957 · as Self
• Meet McGraw1957 · as Osgood
• Blondie1957 · as Jack Bell
• The Gale Storm Show1956 · as Hadley Dexter
• Matinee Theater1955
• The Bob Cummings Show1955 · as Hawthorne
• Hey Mulligan1954 · as Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor
• Colonel Humphrey Flack1953
• The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse1953
• The Life Of Riley1953 · as Uncle Baxter
• Mr. & Mrs. North1952
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet1952 · as Orville
• The Ford Television Theatre1952
• Four Star Playhouse1952 · as Jackson
• Four Star Playhouse1952 · as Albert
• Four Star Playhouse1952 · as Jackson - Waiter
• Chevron Theatre1952
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Mayor Perkins
• The Red Skelton Show1951 · as Explorer Radccliffe
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show1950 · as Professor Bradford
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Carter
• Robert Montgomery Presents1950