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.
Movie | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
Series | The Flying Nun | Father Duffy | 1967-09-07 |
Series | Mister Roberts | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
Series | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Harry Blackburn | 1964-09-22 |
Series | The Patty Duke Show | Unknown | 1963-09-18 |
Series | Burke's Law | Butterfield | 1963-09-20 |
Series | Petticoat Junction | Lucius J. Penrose | 1963-09-24 |
Series | The Beverly Hillbillies | Montrose | 1962-09-26 |
Movie | A Majority of One | Captain Norcross | 1961-12-27 |
Series | Dante | Stewart Styles | 1960-10-03 |
Series | Fibber McGee & Molly | Unknown | 1959-09-15 |
Series | Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Carlson | 1958-01-07 |
Series | Meet McGraw | Osgood | 1957-06-17 |
Series | Blondie | Jack Bell | 1957-01-04 |
Series | Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self | 1957-07-29 |
Series | Maverick | Luke Abigor | 1957-09-22 |
Movie | Once Upon a Honeymoon | Gordon | 1956-01-01 |
Movie | The King and I | Sir John Hay | 1956-06-29 |
Movie | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Val Parnell | 1956-05-16 |
Movie | Around the World in Eighty Days | British Consul | 1956-10-17 |
Series | The Gale Storm Show | Hadley Dexter | 1956-09-29 |
Movie | The King's Thief | Sir Gilbert Talbot | 1955-08-05 |
Series | The Bob Cummings Show | Hawthorne | 1955-01-02 |
Series | Matinee Theater | Unknown | 1955-10-31 |
Movie | Ma and Pa Kettle at Home | Alphonsus Mannering | 1954-03-10 |
Series | Hey Mulligan | Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor | 1954-08-28 |
Movie | Social Lion | Narrator | 1954-10-14 |
Movie | The Steel Cage | Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef" | 1954-12-01 |
Series | The Life Of Riley | Uncle Baxter | 1953-01-02 |
Series | Colonel Humphrey Flack | Unknown | 1953-10-07 |
Series | Four Star Playhouse | Jackson - Waiter | 1952-09-25 |
Movie | Just Across the Street | Davis | 1952-06-15 |
Series | Chevron Theatre | Unknown | 1952-01-04 |
Movie | Blackbeard, the Pirate | Noll | 1952-12-24 |
Series | The Ford Television Theatre | Unknown | 1952-10-02 |
Movie | Androcles and the Lion | Editor of Gladiators | 1952-12-01 |
Series | Mr. & Mrs. North | Unknown | 1952-10-03 |
Series | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | Orville | 1952-10-03 |
Movie | The Lady and the Bandit | Lord Charles Willoughby | 1951-08-13 |
Series | The Red Skelton Show | Explorer Radccliffe | 1951-09-30 |
Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Mayor Perkins | 1951-10-05 |
Movie | Crosswinds | The Hon Cecil Daubrey | 1951-10-01 |
Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
Movie | Wagon Master | Dr. A. Locksley Hall | 1950-04-22 |
Series | The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Professor Bradford | 1950-10-12 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Carter | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | The Jackpot | Leslie | 1950-11-01 |
Movie | Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | Melton | 1949-05-26 |
Movie | The Lovable Cheat | Justin | 1949-05-11 |
Movie | You're My Everything | Joe Blanton | 1949-07-22 |
Movie | The Lone Wolf and His Lady | Jamison | 1949-08-11 |
Movie | An Innocent Affair | Ken St. Clair | 1948-10-15 |
Movie | The Main Street Kid | The Great Martine | 1948-01-01 |
Movie | The Prince Of Thieves | The Friar | 1948-01-16 |
Movie | My Dear Secretary | Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency) | 1948-11-05 |
Movie | Every Girl Should Be Married | Mr. Spitzer | 1948-12-25 |
Movie | Lured | Lyle Maxwell | 1947-08-28 |
Movie | The Pilgrim Lady | Clifford Latimer | 1947-01-22 |
Movie | Merton of the Movies | Frank Mulvaney | 1947-10-11 |
Movie | Captain from Castile | Prof. Botello | 1947-12-25 |
Movie | Terror by Night | Major Duncan-Bleek | 1946-02-01 |
Movie | My Darling Clementine | Granville Thorndyke | 1946-10-17 |
Movie | Idea Girl | J. C. Crow | 1946-02-08 |
Movie | The Phantom of 42nd Street | Cecil Moore | 1945-05-02 |
Movie | Bring on the Girls | August | 1945-03-30 |
Movie | Earl Carroll Vanities | Grand Duke Paul | 1945-04-05 |
Movie | Where Do We Go from Here? | General George Washington | 1945-05-23 |
Movie | Sunbonnet Sue | Jonathan | 1945-10-05 |
Movie | Men in Her Diary | Douglas Crane | 1945-09-14 |
Movie | Tell It to a Star | Col. Ambrose Morgan | 1945-08-16 |
Movie | Ever Since Venus | J. Webster Hackett | 1944-09-14 |
Movie | The Doughgirls | Breckinridge Drake | 1944-11-25 |
Movie | My Gal Loves Music | Rodney Spoonyer | 1944-12-01 |
Movie | Slightly Dangerous | English Gentleman | 1943-04-01 |
Movie | The Powers Girl | John Robert Powers | 1943-01-15 |
Movie | Stage Door Canteen | Alan Mowbray | 1943-06-24 |
Movie | So This Is Washington | Chester W. Marshall | 1943-08-01 |
Movie | His Butler's Sister | Buzz Jenkins | 1943-11-26 |
Movie | Holy Matrimony | Mr. Pennington | 1943-08-24 |
Movie | We Were Dancing | Grand Duke Basil | 1942-04-30 |
Movie | The Mad Martindales | Hugo Martindale | 1942-05-15 |
Movie | Yokel Boy | R.B. Harris - Movie Producer | 1942-03-13 |
Movie | Three Blonde Mice | Elmer Smith | 1942-01-22 |
Movie | A Yank at Eton | Mr. Duncan | 1942-09-01 |
Movie | Panama Hattie | Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler | 1942-09-30 |
Movie | The Devil with Hitler | Gesatan | 1942-10-18 |
Movie | Isle of Missing Men | Dr. Brown | 1942-09-18 |
Movie | That Uncertain Feeling | Doctor Vengard | 1941-04-20 |
Movie | That Hamilton Woman | Sir William Hamilton | 1941-04-03 |
Movie | Footlight Fever | Don Avery | 1941-03-21 |
Movie | French Fried Patootie | Unknown | 1941-06-27 |
Movie | The Cowboy and the Blonde | Phineas Johnson | 1941-05-16 |
Movie | The Perfect Snob | Freddie Browning | 1941-12-19 |
Movie | Moon Over Her Shoulder | Grover Sloan | 1941-10-23 |
Movie | I Wake Up Screaming | Robin Ray | 1941-10-31 |
Movie | Ice-Capades | Pete Ellis | 1941-08-19 |
Movie | Curtain Call | Donald Avery | 1940-04-18 |
Movie | Music in My Heart | Charles Spencer Gardner III | 1940-01-04 |
Movie | Scatterbrain | J.R. Russell | 1940-07-20 |
Movie | The Villain Still Pursued Her | Silas Cribbs | 1940-10-11 |
Movie | The Boys from Syracuse | Angelo | 1940-07-30 |
Movie | The Quarterback | Professor Hobbs | 1940-10-15 |
Movie | Never Say Die | le Prince Smirnov | 1939-03-08 |
Movie | Way Down South | Jacques Bouton | 1939-07-21 |
Movie | The Llano Kid | John Travers | 1939-12-08 |
Movie | Merrily We Live | Grosvenor | 1938-03-04 |
Movie | Hollywood Hotel | Alexander Duprey | 1938-01-15 |
Movie | There Goes My Heart | Penny E. Pennypepper | 1938-10-14 |
Movie | Topper Takes a Trip | Wilkins - Topper's Butler | 1938-12-29 |
Movie | Marry the Girl | Dr. Stryker | 1937-07-13 |
Movie | As Good as Married | Wally | 1937-05-09 |
Movie | On the Avenue | Frederick Sims | 1937-02-12 |
Movie | Topper | Wilkins | 1937-07-16 |
Movie | The King and the Chorus Girl | Donald Taylor | 1937-03-27 |
Movie | Vogues of 1938 | Henry Morgan | 1937-08-18 |
Movie | Stand-In | Koslofski | 1937-10-29 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1937 | Self | 1937-12-31 |
Movie | Music for Madame | Leon Rodowsky | 1937-10-08 |
Movie | On Such a Night | Prof. Richard Candle | 1937-08-27 |
Movie | Desire | Dr. Maurice Pauquet | 1936-04-11 |
Movie | The Case Against Mrs. Ames | Lawrence Waterson | 1936-05-08 |
Movie | Rose Marie | Premier | 1936-01-31 |
Movie | Fatal Lady | Uberto Malla | 1936-05-15 |
Movie | Muss 'em Up | Paul Harding | 1936-02-13 |
Movie | Give Us This Night | Forcellini | 1936-03-06 |
Movie | Mary of Scotland | Throckmorton | 1936-07-28 |
Movie | Rainbow on the River | Ralph Layton | 1936-12-18 |
Movie | Four Days Wonder | Archibald Fenton | 1936-12-03 |
Movie | Ladies In Love | Paul Sandor | 1936-10-09 |
Movie | My Man Godfrey | Tommy Gray | 1936-09-02 |
Movie | Becky Sharp | Rawdon Crawley | 1935-06-28 |
Movie | Night Life of the Gods | Hunter Hawk | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | Lady Tubbs | Elyot Wembsleigh | 1935-07-02 |
Movie | The Gay Deception | Lord Clewe | 1935-09-13 |
Movie | She Couldn't Take It | Alan Bartlett | 1935-10-08 |
Movie | In Person | Jay Holmes | 1935-11-22 |
Movie | Cheaters | Paul Southern | 1934-05-11 |
Movie | The House of Rothschild | Prince Metternich | 1934-04-07 |
Movie | Long Lost Father | Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding | 1934-01-19 |
Movie | Where Sinners Meet | Nicholas | 1934-05-17 |
Movie | Charlie Chan in London | Geoffrey Richmond | 1934-09-12 |
Movie | Little Man, What Now? | Franz Schlüter | 1934-06-04 |
Movie | One More River | Forsythe | 1934-08-06 |
Movie | Embarrassing Moments | Aheam | 1934-09-01 |
Movie | The Girl from Missouri | Lord Douglas | 1934-08-03 |
Movie | Voltaire | Count de Sarnac | 1933-08-05 |
Movie | Midnight Club | Arthur Bradley | 1933-07-28 |
Movie | Peg o' My Heart | Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent | 1933-05-26 |
Movie | A Study in Scarlet | Lestrade | 1933-05-14 |
Movie | Berkeley Square | Major Clinton | 1933-09-15 |
Movie | The World Changes | Sir Philip Ivor | 1933-11-25 |
Movie | Her Secret | Nils Norton | 1933-12-18 |
Movie | Roman Scandals | Majordomo | 1933-11-27 |
Movie | Man About Town | Ivan Boris | 1932-05-22 |
Movie | Hotel Continental | Walter Underwood | 1932-02-21 |
Movie | Lovers Courageous | Lamone | 1932-01-23 |
Movie | The Man from Yesterday | Dr. Waite | 1932-06-24 |
Movie | The Silent Witness | Arthur Drinton | 1932-02-07 |
Movie | The World and the Flesh | Dimitri | 1932-04-22 |
Movie | Sherlock Holmes | Colonel Gore-King | 1932-11-05 |
Movie | Jewel Robbery | Detective Fritz | 1932-07-08 |
Movie | Two Against the World | George 'Georgie' Walton | 1932-09-03 |
Movie | The Phantom President | George Washington (uncredited) | 1932-09-23 |
Movie | The Man Called Back | King's Counsel | 1932-07-16 |
Movie | Winner Take All | Forbes, the etiquette teacher | 1932-07-16 |
Movie | How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons' | Mr. Mowbray (uncredited) | 1931-07-12 |
Movie | The Man in Possession | Sir Charles Cartwright | 1931-07-04 |
Movie | God's Gift to Women | Auguste, Toto's Butler | 1931-04-13 |
Movie | Guilty Hands | Gordon Rich | 1931-08-22 |
Movie | Nice Women | Mark Chandler | 1931-11-28 |
Movie | Honor of the Family | Tony Revere | 1931-10-17 |
Movie | Left Over Ladies | Jerry | 1931-09-30 |
Movie | Alexander Hamilton | George Washington | 1931-09-12 |