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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 17, 1896
Died
March 25, 1969
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Allan Mowbray
- Alfred Ernest Allen
Alan Mowbray
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
10.0
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
6.3
Father Duffy
The Flying Nun
1967
7.5
Mister Roberts
1965
7.1
Harry Blackburn
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
5.7
Lucius J. Penrose
Petticoat Junction
1963
6.0
Butterfield
Burke's Law
1963
5.6
The Patty Duke Show
1963
6.9
Montrose
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
5.7
Captain Norcross
A Majority of One
1961
5.0
Cranshaw
The Investigators
1961
Credits
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
The Flying Nun
as Father Duffy
1967
6.3
Mister Roberts
1965
7.5
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Harry Blackburn
1964
7.1
Petticoat Junction
as Lucius J. Penrose
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Butterfield
1963
6.0
The Patty Duke Show
1963
5.6
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Montrose
1962
6.9
A Majority of One
as Captain Norcross
1961
5.7
The Investigators
as Cranshaw
1961
5.0
Dante
as Stewart Styles
1960
6.0
Fibber McGee & Molly
1959
5.0
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as Carlson
1958
6.6
Maverick
as Luke Abigor
1957
6.9
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Meet McGraw
as Osgood
1957
5.0
Blondie
as Jack Bell
1957
4.7
Around the World in 80 Days
as British Consul
1956
6.6
🎬
The Gale Storm Show
as Hadley Dexter
1956
5.5
The King and I
as Sir John Hay
1956
7.1
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Val Parnell
1956
7.5
🎬
Once Upon a Honeymoon
as Gordon
1956
4.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
The King's Thief
as Sir Gilbert Talbot
1955
6.3
The Bob Cummings Show
as Hawthorne
1955
6.1
The Steel Cage
as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
1954
0.0
Social Lion
as Narrator
1954
6.2
🎬
Hey Mulligan
as Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor
1954
6.7
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
as Alphonsus Mannering
1954
5.8
🎬
Colonel Humphrey Flack
1953
0.0
🎬
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953
7.0
The Life Of Riley
as Uncle Baxter
1953
6.0
Blackbeard, the Pirate
as Noll
1952
5.9
Androcles and the Lion
as Editor of Gladiators
1952
5.8
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
as Orville
1952
5.9
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
4.3
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
7.3
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Jackson
1952
6.7
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Albert
1952
6.7
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Jackson - Waiter
1952
6.7
Just Across the Street
as Davis
1952
2.0
🎬
Chevron Theatre
1952
10.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mayor Perkins
1951
7.2
Crosswinds
as The Hon Cecil Daubrey
1951
5.6
The Red Skelton Show
as Explorer Radccliffe
1951
7.4
The Lady and the Bandit
as Lord Charles Willoughby
1951
6.0
The Jackpot
as Leslie
1950
6.9
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
as Professor Bradford
1950
7.1
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Carter
1950
6.3
Wagon Master
as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
1950
6.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
as Jamison
1949
5.0
You're My Everything
as Joe Blanton
1949
3.8
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
as Melton
1949
6.5
The Lovable Cheat
as Justin
1949
4.0
Every Girl Should Be Married
as Mr. Spitzer
1948
6.1
My Dear Secretary
as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)
1948
5.9
An Innocent Affair
as Ken St. Clair
1948
3.8
The Prince of Thieves
as The Friar
1948
5.8
The Main Street Kid
as The Great Martine
1948
0.0
Captain from Castile
as Prof. Botello
1947
7.2
Merton of the Movies
as Frank Mulvaney
1947
6.8
Lured
as Lyle Maxwell
1947
6.3
The Pilgrim Lady
as Clifford Latimer
1947
5.0
My Darling Clementine
as Granville Thorndyke
1946
7.4
🎬
Idea Girl
as J. C. Crow
1946
0.0
Terror by Night
as Major Duncan-Bleek
1946
6.5
Sunbonnet Sue
as Jonathan
1945
5.0
Men in Her Diary
as Douglas Crane
1945
0.0
Tell It to a Star
as Col. Ambrose Morgan
1945
0.0
Where Do We Go from Here?
as General George Washington
1945
5.3
The Phantom of 42nd Street
as Cecil Moore
1945
4.5
Earl Carroll Vanities
as Grand Duke Paul
1945
5.0
Bring on the Girls
as August
1945
6.1
My Gal Loves Music
as Rodney Spoonyer
1944
0.0
The Doughgirls
as Breckinridge Drake
1944
7.0
Ever Since Venus
as J. Webster Hackett
1944
0.0
His Butler's Sister
as Buzz Jenkins
1943
7.1
Holy Matrimony
as Mr. Pennington
1943
6.6
So This Is Washington
as Chester W. Marshall
1943
5.0
Stage Door Canteen
as Alan Mowbray
1943
6.1
Slightly Dangerous
as English Gentleman
1943
6.1
The Powers Girl
as John Robert Powers
1943
6.5
The Devil with Hitler
as Gesatan
1942
5.5
Panama Hattie
as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler
1942
4.0
Isle of Missing Men
as Dr. Brown
1942
6.2
A Yank at Eton
as Mr. Duncan
1942
6.0
The Mad Martindales
as Hugo Martindale
1942
5.0
We Were Dancing
as Grand Duke Basil
1942
3.6
Yokel Boy
as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
1942
4.7
🎬
Three Blonde Mice
as Elmer Smith
1942
0.0
The Perfect Snob
as Freddie Browning
1941
6.3
I Wake Up Screaming
as Robin Ray
1941
6.9
Moon Over Her Shoulder
as Grover Sloan
1941
0.0
Ice-Capades
as Pete Ellis
1941
5.5
🎬
French Fried Patootie
1941
0.0
The Cowboy and the Blonde
as Phineas Johnson
1941
0.0
That Uncertain Feeling
as Doctor Vengard
1941
6.6
That Hamilton Woman
as Sir William Hamilton
1941
7.1
Footlight Fever
as Don Avery
1941
6.0
The Quarterback
as Professor Hobbs
1940
0.0
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Silas Cribbs
1940
4.8
The Boys from Syracuse
as Angelo
1940
5.8
Scatterbrain
as J.R. Russell
1940
5.0
Curtain Call
as Donald Avery
1940
7.3
Music in My Heart
as Charles Spencer Gardner III
1940
6.2
The Llano Kid
as John Travers
1939
0.0
Way Down South
as Jacques Bouton
1939
5.8
Never Say Die
as le Prince Smirnov
1939
6.8
Topper Takes a Trip
as Wilkins - Topper's Butler
1938
6.5
There Goes My Heart
as Penny E. Pennypepper
1938
7.1
Merrily We Live
as Grosvenor
1938
6.9
Hollywood Hotel
as Alexander Duprey
1938
5.4
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
1937
6.0
Stand-In
as Koslofski
1937
6.3
Music for Madame
as Leon Rodowsky
1937
5.0
On Such a Night
as Prof. Richard Candle
1937
0.0
Vogues of 1938
as Henry Morgan
1937
5.4
Topper
as Wilkins
1937
6.7
Marry the Girl
as Dr. Stryker
1937
5.0
As Good as Married
as Wally
1937
7.0
The King and the Chorus Girl
as Donald Taylor
1937
5.5
On the Avenue
as Frederick Sims
1937
6.7
Rainbow on the River
as Ralph Layton
1936
9.0
🎬
Four Days Wonder
as Archibald Fenton
1936
0.0
Ladies in Love
as Paul Sandor
1936
5.8
My Man Godfrey
as Tommy Gray
1936
7.5
Mary of Scotland
as Throckmorton
1936
6.2
Fatal Lady
as Uberto Malla
1936
0.0
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Lawrence Waterson
1936
3.0
Desire
as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
1936
6.9
Give Us This Night
as Forcellini
1936
7.0
Muss 'em Up
as Paul Harding
1936
5.5
Rose Marie
as Premier
1936
6.2
In Person
as Jay Holmes
1935
6.3
She Couldn't Take It
as Alan Bartlett
1935
4.5
The Gay Deception
as Lord Clewe
1935
6.4
Lady Tubbs
as Elyot Wembsleigh
1935
5.0
Becky Sharp
as Rawdon Crawley
1935
5.7
🎬
Night Life of the Gods
as Hunter Hawk
1935
0.0
Charlie Chan in London
as Geoffrey Richmond
1934
6.8
Embarrassing Moments
as Aheam
1934
0.0
One More River
as Forsythe
1934
4.7
The Girl from Missouri
as Lord Douglas
1934
6.9
Little Man, What Now?
as Franz Schlüter
1934
6.0
Where Sinners Meet
as Nicholas
1934
3.3
Cheaters
as Paul Southern
1934
0.0
The House of Rothschild
as Prince Metternich
1934
6.2
Long Lost Father
as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding
1934
5.7
Her Secret
as Nils Norton
1933
0.0
Roman Scandals
as Majordomo
1933
5.8
The World Changes
as Sir Philip Ivor
1933
4.3
Berkeley Square
as Major Clinton
1933
5.7
Voltaire
as Count de Sarnac
1933
5.7
Midnight Club
as Arthur Bradley
1933
0.0
Peg o' My Heart
as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent
1933
4.4
A Study in Scarlet
as Lestrade
1933
5.5
Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Gore-King
1932
5.4
The Phantom President
as George Washington (uncredited)
1932
5.5
Two Against the World
as George 'Georgie' Walton
1932
5.1
Winner Take All
as Forbes, the etiquette teacher
1932
4.7
The Man Called Back
as King's Counsel
1932
4.5
Jewel Robbery
as Detective Fritz
1932
6.5
The Man from Yesterday
as Dr. Waite
1932
4.8
Man About Town
as Ivan Boris
1932
0.0
The World and the Flesh
as Dimitri
1932
6.5
Hotel Continental
as Walter Underwood
1932
6.0
The Silent Witness
as Arthur Drinton
1932
5.5
Lovers Courageous
as Lamone
1932
5.6
Nice Women
as Mark Chandler
1931
0.0
Honor of the Family
as Tony Revere
1931
0.0
Left Over Ladies
as Jerry
1931
0.0
Alexander Hamilton
as George Washington
1931
4.0
Guilty Hands
as Gordon Rich
1931
5.9
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)
1931
0.0
The Man in Possession
as Sir Charles Cartwright
1931
6.7
God's Gift to Women
as Auguste, Toto's Butler
1931
4.5