Alan Mowbray
Birthday: 1896-08-18 | Place of Birth: London, England, UKFrom 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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Acting
Role
as Sir John Hay
as Stewart Styles
as Val Parnell
as Editor of Gladiators
as Noll
as Lord Charles Willoughby
as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
as Mr. Spitzer
as The Friar
as Frank Mulvaney
as Lyle Maxwell
as Prof. Botello
as Granville Thorndyke
as Major Duncan-Bleek
as Cecil Moore
as Col. Ambrose Morgan
as General George Washington
as Grand Duke Paul
as Breckinridge Drake
as English Gentleman
as John Robert Powers
as Dr. Brown
as Grand Duke Basil
as Mr. Duncan
as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
as Robin Ray
as Sir William Hamilton
