Alan Mowbray
After serving in the British army during World War I, Alan Mowbray took to stage acting in his native England. Soon afterward, he moved to the United States, where he toured with the Theater Guild and later made his debut on Broadway. With the advent of the "talkies," Mowbray began to land work in Hollywood, often cast as an upper-class gentleman, aristocrat, or royalty. His first credited role was 1931's "God's Gift to Women," but he quickly followed it up with a number of pictures that same year, including an acclaimed turn as George Washington in "Alexander Hamilton." Mowbray also starred in the first movie made in three-strip Technicolor with 1935's "Becky Sharp." He acted in a myriad of films up through the 1950s, including three Sherlock Holmes movies, two John Ford pictures ("My Darling Clementine" and "Wagon Master"), and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "The Man Who Knew Too Much." He also appeared on television as the lead in 1953's "Colonel Humphrey Flack." In addition to his many roles as an actor, Mowbray is also remembered for funding the early days of the Screen Actors Guild when it was first founded in 1933. The actor began appearing primarily in television roles in the 1950s, and would continue this trend through the following decade.
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Alan Mowbray
Filmography
Movies
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88% |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much | Val Parnell (Character) | - | 1956 |
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The King's Thief | Sir Gilbert Talbot (Character) | - | 1955 |
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home | Alphonsus Mannering (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Blackbeard, the Pirate | Noll (Character) | - | 1952 |
43% |
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Androcles and the Lion | Editor of Gladiators (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady and the Bandit | Lord Charles Willoughby (Character) | - | 1951 |
100% |
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Wagon Master | Dr. A. Locksley Hall (Character) | - | 1950 |
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The Jackpot | Leslie (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You're My Everything | Joe Blanton (Character) | - | 1949 |
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | Melton (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lovable Cheat | Justin (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Wolf and His Lady | Jamison (Character) | - | 1949 |
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My Dear Secretary | Deveny (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Every Girl Should Be Married | Mr. Spitzer (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Innocent Affair | Ken St. Clair (Character) | - | 1948 |
100% |
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Lured | Lyle Maxwell (Character) | - | 1947 |
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Captain From Castile | Prof. Botello (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Main Street Kid | The Great Martine (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pilgrim Lady | Clifford Latimer (Character) | - | 1947 |
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Merton of the Movies | Frank Mulvaney (Character) | - | 1947 |
75% |
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Terror by Night | Maj. Duncan-Bleek (Character) | - | 1946 |
100% |
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My Darling Clementine | Granville Thorndyke (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where Do We Go From Here? | Gen. George Washington (Character) | - | 1945 |
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The Phantom of 42nd Street | Cecil Moore (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Earl Carroll Vanities | Grand Duke Paul (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sunbonnet Sue | Jonathan (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tell It to a Star | Colonel Ambrose Morgan (Character) | - | 1945 |
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The Doughgirls | Breckenridge Drake (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ever Since Venus | J. Webster Hackett (Character) | - | 1944 |
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Holy Matrimony | Mr. Pennington (Character) | - | 1943 |
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Slightly Dangerous | English Gentleman (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | So This Is Washington | Chester W. Marshall (Character) | - | 1943 |
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His Butler's Sister | Buzz Jenkins (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yokel Boy | R.B. Harris (Character) | - | 1942 |
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A Yank at Eton | Mr. Duncan (Character) | - | 1942 |
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Isle of Missing Men | Dr. Henry Brown (Character) | - | 1942 |
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Panama Hattie | Jay Jerkins (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad Martindales | Hugo Martindale (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil Checks Up | Gesatan (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil With Hitler | Gesatan (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cowboy and the Blonde | Phineas Johnson (Character) | - | 1941 |
100% |
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That Hamilton Woman | Sir William Hamilton (Character) | - | 1941 |
86% |
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I Wake Up Screaming | Robin Ray (Character) | - | 1941 |
63% |
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That Uncertain Feeling | Dr. Vengard (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ice-Capades | Pete Ellis (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Perfect Snob | Freddie Browning (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Footlight Fever | Mr. Don Avery (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Villain Still Pursued Her | Silas Cribbs (Character) | - | 1940 |
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Music in My Heart | Charles Gardner (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scatterbrain | J.R. Russell (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curtain Call | Donald Avery (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Quarterback | Professor Hobbs (Character) | - | 1940 |
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Never Say Die | Prince Smirnov (Character) | - | 1939 |
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Way Down South | Jacques Bouton (Character) | - | 1939 |
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Topper Takes a Trip | Wilkins (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Llano Kid | John Travers (Character) | - | 1939 |
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Merrily We Live | Grosvenor (Character) | - | 1938 |
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There Goes My Heart | Pennypepper E. Pennypepper (Character) | - | 1938 |
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On the Avenue | Frederick Sims (Character) | - | 1937 |
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Hollywood Hotel | Alexander "Alex" Duprey (Character) | - | 1937 |
89% |
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Topper | Wilkins (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The King and the Chorus Girl | Donald Taylor (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marry the Girl | Dr. Hayden Stryker (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Such a Night | Professor Ricardo Montrose Candle (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Music for Madame | Leon Rodowsky (Character) | - | 1937 |
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Stand-In | Koslofski (Character) | - | 1937 |
100% |
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Desire | Dr. Maurice Pauquet (Character) | - | 1936 |
100% |
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Rose Marie | Premier (Character) | - | 1936 |
97% |
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My Man Godfrey | Tommy Gray (Character) | - | 1936 |
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Mary of Scotland | Throckmorton (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Muss 'Em Up | Paul Harding (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Indian Love Call | Premier (Character) | - | 1936 |
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Ladies in Love | Paul Sandor (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fatal Lady | Uberto Malla (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Give Us This Night | Forcellini (Character) | - | 1936 |
40% |
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Becky Sharp | Rawdon Crawley (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She Couldn't Take It | Alan Bartlett (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Life of the Gods | Unknown (Character) | - | 1935 |
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In Person | Jay Holmes (Character) | - | 1935 |
83% |
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Little Man, What Now? | Franz Schluter (Character) | - | 1934 |
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The Girl From Missouri | Lord Douglas (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Long Lost Father | Sir Tony Gelding (Character) | - | 1934 |
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Charlie Chan in London | Geoffrey Richmond (Character) | - | 1934 |
100% |
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The House of Rothschild | Prince Metternich (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One More River | Forsythe (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where Sinners Meet | Nicholas (Character) | - | 1934 |
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Roman Scandals | Majordomo (Character) | - | 1933 |
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Peg O' My Heart | Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent (Character) | - | 1933 |
93% |
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A Study in Scarlet | Lestrade (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Secret | Nils Norton (Character) | - | 1933 |
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Berkeley Square | Major Clinton (Character) | - | 1933 |
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Voltaire | Count De Sarnac (Character) | - | 1933 |
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The World Changes | Sir Phillip Ivor (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man From Yesterday | Dr. Waite (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel Continental | Walter Underwood (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winner Take All | Forbes (Character) | - | 1932 |
83% |
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Jewel Robbery | Detective Fritz (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | World and the Flesh | Dimitri (Character) | - | 1932 |
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Sherlock Holmes | Colonel Gore-King (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | God's Gift to Women | Auguste (Character) | - | 1931 |
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Guilty Hands | Gordon Rich (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honor of the Family | Tony Revere (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alexander Hamilton | George Washington (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man in Possession | Sir Charles Cartwright (Character) | - | 1931 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Flying Nun | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petticoat Junction | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dante | Stewart Styles (Character) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mickey Rooney Show | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | TV Soundstage | Unknown (Character) | 1952 |