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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 23, 1904
Died
October 19, 1990
Place of Birth
King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Horace Raymond Huntley
- Рэймонд Хантли
Raymond Huntley
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975. Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach. He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by John L. Balderston); when he declined, the part was taken by Bela Lugosi instead. Huntley did, however, appear in a US touring production of the Deane/Balderston play, covering the east coast and midwest, from 1928-30. "I have always considered the role of Count Dracula to have been an indiscretion of my youth" he recalled in 1989. After Dracula, he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1940), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950). Often cast as a supercilious bureaucrat or other authority figure, Huntley was also a staple figure in British films, his many appearances including The Way Ahead, I See a Dark Stranger, Passport to Pimlico and The Dam Busters. In his later years, he became well-known on television as Sir Geoffrey Dillon, the family solicitor to the Bellamys in LWT's popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. Huntley died in Westminster Hospital, London in 1990. In his obituary, the New York Times wrote, "During his long career the actor played judges, bank managers, churchmen, bureaucrats and other figures of authority. He could play them straight if necessary, but in comedy his natural dryness of delivery was exaggerated to the point where the character he was playing invited mockery as a pompous humbug." Source: Article "Raymond Huntley" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
5.7
Old Englishman
Sleepwalker
1984
7.6
Judge
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
5.8
Judge
Brass
1983
0.0
Dr. Tristram
The Portland Millions
1976
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0.0
Dr. Tristram
Victorian Scandals
1976
🎬
0.0
My Honourable Mrs
1975
6.2
Burke
Symptoms
1974
2.3
Emmanuel Holroyd
That's Your Funeral
1972
5.4
Mr. Justice Downes
Crown Court
1972
6.2
Old Officer
Young Winston
1972
Credits
Sleepwalker
as Old Englishman
1984
5.7
A Voyage Round My Father
as Judge
1984
7.6
Brass
as Judge
1983
5.8
The Portland Millions
as Dr. Tristram
1976
0.0
🎬
Victorian Scandals
as Dr. Tristram
1976
0.0
🎬
My Honourable Mrs
1975
0.0
Symptoms
as Burke
1974
6.2
That's Your Funeral
as Emmanuel Holroyd
1972
2.3
Crown Court
as Mr. Justice Downes
1972
5.4
Young Winston
as Old Officer
1972
6.2
Upstairs, Downstairs
as Sir Geoffrey Dillon
1971
7.8
Justice
as Judge
1971
6.0
Justice
as High Court Judge
1971
6.0
🎬
That's Your Funeral
1970
0.0
Destiny of a Spy
as Supt. Pode
1969
0.0
Arthur? Arthur!
as George Payne
1969
2.3
The Adding Machine
as Smithers
1969
5.5
Hostile Witness
as John Naylor
1968
6.2
Hot Millions
as Bayswater
1968
6.5
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
as Sir Horace, the Minister
1966
6.1
Rotten to the Core
as Governor
1965
6.2
Gideon's Way
as Sir Percy Richmond
1965
6.8
The Black Torment
as Colonel John Wentworth
1964
5.9
Father Came Too!
as Mr. Wedgewood
1964
5.5
The Yellow Teddy Bears
as Harry Haliburton
1963
3.8
Nurse on Wheels
as Vicar Walcott
1963
5.8
On the Beat
as Sir Ronald Ackroyd
1962
7.7
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Ackroyd
1962
4.8
Crooks Anonymous
as Mr. Wagstaffe
1962
5.9
Only Two Can Play
as Vernon
1962
5.8
Sir Francis Drake
as Doctor Dee
1961
4.5
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
as Judge Slender
1960
6.4
Suspect
as Sir George Gatting the Minister of Defense
1960
6.5
Barnaby Rudge
1960
5.0
Sands of the Desert
as Bossom
1960
6.3
A French Mistress
as Reverend Edwin Peake
1960
5.7
Make Mine Mink
as Inspector Pape
1960
7.1
🎬
Follow That Horse!
1960
0.0
Bottoms Up!
as Garrick-Jones
1960
6.4
Breathless
as A Journalist (uncredited)
1960
7.5
Our Man in Havana
as General
1960
6.7
No Hiding Place
1959
3.7
Interpol Calling
as Schroeder
1959
6.7
I'm All Right Jack
as Magistrate
1959
6.6
The Mummy
as Joseph Whemple
1959
6.7
Innocent Meeting
as Harold Phillips
1959
5.5
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
as Foreign Secretary Tufton-Slade
1959
5.9
Room at the Top
as Mr. Hoylake
1958
6.9
The Criminals
as Hector Crawford
1958
0.0
Next to No Time
as Forbes, Factory Supervisor
1958
8.0
🎬
A Time Of Day
1957
0.0
Brothers in Law
as Tatlock Q.C.
1957
7.1
Town on Trial
as Dr. Reese
1957
6.5
The Green Man
as Sir Gregory Upshott
1956
6.9
The Last Man to Hang
as Attorney General
1956
5.7
Hancock's Half Hour
1956
7.3
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
4.4
Geordie
as Olympic Selector
1955
6.8
Doctor at Sea
as Captain Beamish
1955
5.6
The Dam Busters
as Official, National Physical Laboratory
1955
6.9
The Constant Husband
as J.F. Hassett
1955
6.9
The Prisoner
as The General
1955
7.2
Aunt Clara
as Rev. Maurice Hilton
1954
4.5
The Teckman Mystery
as Maurice Miller
1954
5.9
Orders Are Orders
as Col. Fred Bellamy
1954
6.4
Hobson's Choice
as Nathaniel Beenstock
1954
7.4
Meet Mr. Lucifer
as Patterson
1953
5.1
Glad Tidings
as Tom Forester
1953
5.7
🎬
Laxdale Hall
as Samuel Pettigrew, M.P.
1953
6.0
The Last Page
as Clive Oliver
1952
5.7
🎬
When We Are Married
as Councillor Albert Parker
1951
0.0
Mr. Denning Drives North
as Wright
1951
6.0
The House in the Square
as Mr. Throstle
1951
6.3
The Long Dark Hall
as Chief Inspector Sullivan
1951
6.4
Trio
as Mr. Henry Chester
1950
6.3
Passport to Pimlico
as Mr. Wix
1949
6.9
It's Hard to be Good
as Williams
1948
5.5
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Moy-Thompson
1948
7.7
So Evil My Love
as Henry Courtney
1948
6.3
Broken Journey
as Edward Marshall
1948
6.0
School for Secrets
as Prof. Laxton-Jones
1946
7.0
I See a Dark Stranger
as J. Miller
1946
6.4
They Came to a City
as Malcolm Stritton
1944
6.0
The Way Ahead
as Pvt. Herbert Davenport
1944
6.5
When We Are Married
as Albert Parker
1943
0.0
The New Lot
as Barrington
1943
0.0
The Day Will Dawn
1942
5.6
"Pimpernel" Smith
as Marx
1941
7.2
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
as Dr. Kerbishley
1941
7.3
The Ghost Train
as John Price
1941
6.0
The Ghost of St. Michael's
as Mr Humphries
1941
6.6
Freedom Radio
as Rabenau
1941
6.3
Night Train to Munich
as Kampenfeldt
1940
7.3
Let's Be Famous
as Singer in trio (uncredited)
1939
5.8
🎬
When We Are Married
as Councillor Albert Parker
1938
0.0
Dinner at the Ritz
as Gibout
1937
5.5
Knight Without Armour
as White Officer
1937
5.6
London Melody
as Policeman Outside Nightclub
1937
5.0
Rembrandt
as Ludwick
1936
6.8
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
as Langer
1936
5.2
🎬
Can You Hear Me, Mother?
as Dolan
1935
0.0
What Happened Then?
1934
5.0
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
as Mr. Gaunt
N/A
0.0