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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 30, 1882
Died
December 26, 1956
Place of Birth
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Horace Edward Jenner
- Holmes E. Herbert
- H.E. Herbert
- H.J. Herbert
- Холмс Херберт
Holmes Herbert
0.4 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952. Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s. Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955. He died in 1956 at age 74.
Known For
5.5
Archbishop
The Brigand
1952
6.9
Magistrate (uncredited)
The Wild North
1952
4.8
The Unknown Man
1951
4.3
Constable (uncredited)
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951
6.3
English Sea Captain
Anne of the Indies
1951
5.8
Gen. Johnson
The Iroquois Trail
1950
6.0
Thomas Jefferson
Barbary Pirate
1949
6.0
James Seeley
Post Office Investigator
1949
5.0
Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)
Canadian Pacific
1949
5.0
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Lost Tribe
1949
Credits
The Brigand
as Archbishop
1952
5.5
The Wild North
as Magistrate (uncredited)
1952
6.9
The Unknown Man
1951
4.8
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
as Constable (uncredited)
1951
4.3
Anne of the Indies
as English Sea Captain
1951
6.3
The Iroquois Trail
as Gen. Johnson
1950
5.8
Barbary Pirate
as Thomas Jefferson
1949
6.0
Post Office Investigator
as James Seeley
1949
6.0
Canadian Pacific
as Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)
1949
5.0
The Lost Tribe
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
5.0
South of St. Louis
1949
5.6
Jungle Jim
as Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden
1948
5.3
Family Honeymoon
as Rev. Miller (uncredited)
1948
5.7
Sorry, Wrong Number
as Wilkins (uncredited)
1948
6.7
Johnny Belinda
as Judge (uncredited)
1948
6.8
A Woman's Vengeance
as Warder (uncredited)
1948
6.2
The Wreck of the Hesperus
as Pastor West
1948
6.2
The Swordsman
as Lord Glowan
1948
0.0
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Inspector McIver
1947
5.8
Singapore
as Rev. Barnes
1947
5.9
The Ghost Goes Wild
as Judge
1947
5.0
Ivy
as Mulloy (uncredited)
1947
6.6
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
as Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar
1947
6.0
Over the Santa Fe Trail
as Doc Henderson
1947
0.0
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Dr. White, Minister
1946
5.5
The Verdict
as Sir William Dawson
1946
6.5
Dressed to Kill
as Ebenezer Crabtree
1946
6.6
Three Strangers
as Sir Robert (uncredited)
1946
6.4
Confidential Agent
as Lord Benditch
1945
5.5
Swingin' on a Rainbow
as Butler (uncredited)
1945
0.0
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945
6.2
Jealousy
as Melvyn Russell
1945
5.4
The House of Fear
as Alan Cosgrave
1945
6.9
The Mummy's Curse
as Dr. Cooper
1944
5.5
Enter Arsène Lupin
as Jobson
1944
6.0
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Captain (uncredited)
1944
7.3
The Unwritten Code
as McDowell (uncredited)
1944
5.6
The Pearl of Death
as James Goodram, courier
1944
7.1
The Uninvited
as Charlie Jessup
1944
6.9
Calling Dr. Death
as Bryant, the Butler
1943
6.4
Corvette K-225
as Commodore Ramsay
1943
6.1
Two Tickets to London
as Kilgallen
1943
6.0
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as Mr. Ahrens
1943
6.7
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as Sir Reginald
1942
6.4
The Undying Monster
as Chief Constable (uncredited)
1942
5.7
Strictly in the Groove
as Commissioner
1942
0.0
Invisible Agent
as Sir Alfred Spencer
1942
5.8
Lady in a Jam
as Man at Auction (uncredited)
1942
5.3
Danger in the Pacific
as Commissioner
1942
6.0
This Above All
as Dr. Mathias
1942
6.7
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Magistrate
1942
5.8
Man Hunt
as Saul Farnsworthy
1941
6.9
The Letter
as Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
1940
7.3
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
1940
6.1
Boom Town
as Doctor (uncredited)
1940
6.9
Foreign Correspondent
as Asst. Commissioner
1940
7.0
Phantom Raiders
as Sir Edward
1940
6.1
An Angel from Texas
as Second Banker
1940
4.8
The Earl of Chicago
as Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited)
1940
5.6
Everything Happens at Night
as Featherstone
1939
4.1
We Are Not Alone
as Police Inspector
1939
6.1
Tower of London
as Councilman (uncredited)
1939
6.0
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Majordomo (uncredited)
1939
6.3
British Intelligence
as Arthur Bennett
1939
5.7
Rulers of the Sea
as Member of Naval Company (Uncredited)
1939
6.5
20,000 Men a Year
as Dean Norris
1939
5.5
Intermezzo: A Love Story
as Doctor (Uncredited)
1939
6.6
Hidden Power
as Dr. Morley
1939
0.0
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as Justice of the Court
1939
6.9
Stanley and Livingstone
as Frederick Holcomb
1939
6.3
Bad Boy
as Mr. McNeil
1939
3.0
The House of Fear
as Minor Role
1939
6.5
Juarez
as Marshal Randon (uncredited)
1939
6.5
Trapped in the Sky
as Fielding
1939
0.0
The Sun Never Sets
as Colonial Official
1939
4.8
Wolf Call
as J.L. Winton
1939
3.3
The Little Princess
as Doctor
1939
6.7
Mystery of the White Room
as Hospital Administrator
1939
0.0
The Mystery of Mr. Wong
as Prof. Ed Janney
1939
5.7
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Bentham (uncredited)
1939
5.5
Say It in French
as Richard Carrington Sr.
1938
0.0
Marie Antoinette
as Herald (uncredited)
1938
6.5
Kidnapped
as Judge
1938
4.7
The Buccaneer
as Captain McWilliams
1938
6.4
The Black Doll
as Dr. Giddings
1938
5.3
Here's Flash Casey
as Maj. Addison
1938
4.8
The Man Without a Country
as Aaron Burr
1937
5.7
The Girl Said No
as Charles Dillon (scenes deleted)
1937
5.4
Slave Ship
as Commander
1937
4.5
The Thirteenth Chair
as Governor Sir Roscoe Crosby
1937
6.1
The Prince and the Pauper
as First Doctor
1937
6.8
Lloyd's of London
as Spokesman
1936
7.2
The House of Secrets
as Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary
1936
5.2
15 Maiden Lane
as Harold Anderson
1936
6.0
The Gentleman from Louisiana
as Chief Steward
1936
0.0
The White Angel
as War Minister (uncredited)
1936
7.2
Champagne Charlie
as Captain Dell
1936
4.8
Brilliant Marriage
as Mr. Rodney Allison
1936
4.5
Wife vs. Secretary
as Frawley (uncredited)
1936
6.7
Captain Blood
as Capt. Gardner
1935
7.2
Accent on Youth
as Frank Galloway
1935
5.5
Mark of the Vampire
as Sir Karell Borotyn
1935
6.1
Cardinal Richelieu
as Noble
1935
7.4
One in a Million
as Donald Cabot Sr.
1935
5.0
Sons of Steel
as Curtis Chadburne
1934
5.0
The Curtain Falls
as John Scorsby
1934
5.0
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Gen. Sir Henry Clinton
1934
5.8
The House of Rothschild
as Rowerth
1934
6.2
Beloved
as Lord Landslake
1934
0.0
The Invisible Man
as Chief of Police
1933
7.5
Mystery of the Wax Museum
as Dr. Rasmussen
1933
6.4
Sister to Judas
as Bruce Rogers
1932
0.0
Central Park
as Benefit Emcee (uncredited)
1932
5.2
Miss Pinkerton
as Arthur Glenn
1932
5.7
Shop Angel
as James Walton Kennedy
1932
0.0
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. John Lanyon
1931
7.2
Daughter of the Dragon
as Sir John Petrie
1931
5.1
Broadminded
as John J. Hackett Sr.
1931
3.7
Chances
as Maj. Bradford
1931
7.0
The Hot Heiress
as Mr. Hunter
1931
5.3
The Single Sin
as Roger Van Dorn
1931
0.0
The Ship from Shanghai
as Paul Thorpe
1930
5.7
Untamed
as Howard Presley
1929
5.9
The Kiss
as Lassalle
1929
6.3
The Thirteenth Chair
as Sir Roscoe Crosby
1929
4.9
The Careless Age
as Sir John
1929
0.0
Her Private Life
as Rudolph Solomon
1929
1.0
Madame X
as Noel
1929
6.1
Say It with Songs
as Dr. Robert Merrill
1929
4.8
Careers
as Carouge
1929
0.0
The Charlatan
as Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
1929
3.5
On Trial
as Gerald Trask
1928
6.0
Through the Breakers
as Eustis Hobbs
1928
3.3
The Terror
as Goodman
1928
6.0
The Sporting Age
as James Driscoll
1928
2.7
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as Henry Spoffard
1928
0.0
The Silver Slave
as Tom Richards
1927
0.0
East Side, West Side
as Gilbert Van Horn
1927
7.2
The Gay Retreat
as Charles Wright
1927
0.0
When a Man Loves
as Jean Tiberge
1927
5.9
🎬
Slaves of Beauty
as Leonard Jones
1927
0.0
The Heart of Salome
as Sir Humphrey
1927
0.0
Mr. Wu
as Mr. Gregory
1927
5.7
One Increasing Purpose
as Charles Paris
1927
0.0
The Fire Brigade
as James Corwin
1926
3.5
Josselyn's Wife
as Thomas Josselyn
1926
0.0
The Honeymoon Express
as Jim Donaldson
1926
0.0
A Woman of the World
as Richard Granger
1925
5.1
Wreckage
as Stuart Ames
1925
0.0
The Wanderer
as Prophet
1925
1.0
Up the Ladder
as Robert Newhall
1925
4.2
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1925
5.0
Love's Wilderness
as David Tennant
1924
0.0
Sinners in Heaven
as Hugh Rochedale
1924
0.0
Her Own Free Will
as Peter Craddock
1924
0.0
Another Scandal
as Pelham Franklin
1924
0.0
The Enchanted Cottage
as Major Hillgrove
1924
6.7
I Will Repay
as Sir Percy Blakeney
1924
0.0
Week End Husbands
as William Randall
1924
0.0
Toilers of the Sea
as Sandro
1923
0.0
A Woman's Woman
as John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert)
1922
0.0
Moonshine Valley
as Dr. Martin
1922
0.0
Divorce Coupons
as Roland Bland
1922
0.0
Evidence
as Judge Rowland
1922
0.0
🎬
A Stage Romance
as Prince of Wales
1922
0.0
Any Wife
as Philip Gray
1922
1.0
The Family Closet
as Alfred Dinsmore
1921
0.0
The Wild Goose
as Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert)
1921
1.0
Heedless Moths
1921
0.0
🎬
Her Lord and Master
as R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning
1921
0.0
The Truth About Husbands
as Dustan Renshaw
1920
0.0
Dead Men Tell No Tales
as Squire John Rattray
1920
6.0
The Right to Love
as Lord Falkland
1920
0.0
Lady Rose's Daughter
as Jacob Delafield
1920
0.0
My Lady's Garter
as Henry Van Derp, aka The Hawk
1920
0.0
Black Is White
as Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert)
1920
0.0
His House in Order
as Filmer Jesson
1920
1.0
On with the Dance
1920
1.0
The ABC of Love
as Harry Bryant
1919
5.6
The Market of Souls
as Temple Bane
1919
0.0
The White Heather
as Lord Angus Cameron
1919
0.0
Other Men's Wives
as Fenwick Flint
1919
0.0
Greater Than Love
as James Bruton
1919
1.0
The Rough Neck
as A Half-Breed Indian
1919
0.0
The Divorcee
as Sir Paradine Fuldes
1919
0.0
The Death Dance
as Arnold Maitland
1918
1.0
A Doll's House
as Thorvald Helmar
1918
0.0
The Man Without a Country
as Lt. Philip Nolan
1917
4.8
🎬
The Fisherwoman
as The Son
1915
0.0
His Wife
as John Dennys
1915
0.0