Alan Mowbray
AKA: Allan Mowbray
Birthday: 1896-08-17
Died: 1969-03-25
Birthplace: 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
Character: Granville Thorndyke
Character: Major Duncan-Bleek
Character: Geoffrey Richmond
Character: Dr. A. Locksley Hall
Character: Sir William Hamilton
Character: Doctor Vengard
Character: Alexander Duprey
Character: Rawdon Crawley
Character: The Hon Cecil Daubrey
Character: Captain Norcross
Character: Penny E. Pennypepper
Character: Detective Fritz
Character: Forbes, the etiquette teacher
Character: Wilkins - Topper's Butler
Character: Dr. Maurice Pauquet
Character: Sir Charles Cartwright
Character: Breckinridge Drake
Character: Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
Character: Frank Mulvaney
Character: Frederick Sims
Character: Sir Gilbert Talbot
Character: Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
Character: Jacques Bouton
Character: le Prince Smirnov
Character: Charles Spencer Gardner III
Character: Freddie Browning
Character: Walter Underwood
Character: Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
Character: Mr. Pennington
Character: Col. Ambrose Morgan
Character: Lord Charles Willoughby
Character: George 'Georgie' Walton
Character: Lawrence Waterson
Character: English Gentleman
Character: Count de Sarnac
Character: Sir Philip Ivor
Character: Arthur Bradley
Character: Grand Duke Basil
Character: Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
Character: Elyot Wembsleigh
Character: Franz Schlüter
Character: Prince Metternich
Character: George Washington
Character: Auguste, Toto's Butler
Character: (archive footage)
Character: General George Washington
Character: Phineas Johnson
Character: John Robert Powers
Character: Alphonsus Mannering
Character: Editor of Gladiators
Character: Chester W. Marshall
Character: King's Counsel
Character: Prof. Richard Candle
Character: R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
Character: George Washington (uncredited)
Character: Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
Character: The Great Martine
Character: Archibald Fenton
Character: Professor Hobbs
Character: Rodney Spoonyer
Character: British Consul
Character: Arthur Drinton
Character: Grand Duke Paul
Character: J. Webster Hackett
Character: Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
Character: Hugo Martindale
Character: Colonel Gore-King
Character: Clifford Latimer