
Alan Mowbray
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 17, 1896
- Died
- March 25, 1969 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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
Filmography

Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie · as (archive footage)

The Flying Nun
TV · as Father Duffy · 1 ep

Mister Roberts
TV · 2 eps

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Harry Blackburn · 1 ep

Burke's Law
TV · as Butterfield · 1 ep

Petticoat Junction
TV · as Lucius J. Penrose · 1 ep

The Patty Duke Show
TV · 1 ep

The Beverly Hillbillies
TV · as Montrose · 1 ep

A Majority of One
Movie · as Captain Norcross

The Investigators
TV · as Cranshaw · 1 ep

Dante
TV · as Stewart Styles · 26 eps

Fibber McGee & Molly
TV · 1 ep

Startime
TV · as King Arthur · 1 ep

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TV · as Carlson · 1 ep

Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Maverick
TV · as Luke Abigor · 1 ep

Meet McGraw
TV · as Osgood · 1 ep

Blondie
TV · as Jack Bell · 1 ep

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Movie · as Val Parnell
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Movie · as Gordon

The King and I
Movie · as John Hay

Around the World in 80 Days
Movie · as British Consul

The Gale Storm Show
TV · as Hadley Dexter · 1 ep

The King's Thief
Movie · as Sir Gilbert Talbot

Matinee Theater
TV · 1 ep

The Bob Cummings Show
TV · as Hawthorne · 1 ep

The Steel Cage
Movie · as Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Movie · as Alphonsus Mannering

Social Lion
Movie · as Narrator
Hey Mulligan
TV · as Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor · 1 ep
Colonel Humphrey Flack
TV · 77 eps

The Life Of Riley
TV · as Uncle Baxter · 1 ep
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
TV · 1 ep

Blackbeard, the Pirate
Movie · as Noll

Androcles and the Lion
Movie · as Editor of Gladiators

Just Across the Street
Movie · as Davis

Mr. & Mrs. North
TV · 2 eps

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV · as Orville · 1 ep

The Ford Television Theatre
TV · 1 ep
Chevron Theatre
TV · 1 ep

Four Star Playhouse
TV · as Jackson, Albert, Jackson - Waiter · 2 eps

Crosswinds
Movie · as The Hon Cecil Daubrey

The Lady and the Bandit
Movie · as Lord Charles Willoughby

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Mayor Perkins · 1 ep

The Red Skelton Show
TV · as Explorer Radccliffe · 1 ep

Wagon Master
Movie · as Dr. A. Locksley Hall

The Jackpot
Movie · as Leslie

Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Carter · 1 ep

Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · 1 ep

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
TV · as Professor Bradford · 1 ep

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Movie · as Melton

The Lovable Cheat
Movie · as Justin

You're My Everything
Movie · as Joe Blanton

The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Movie · as Jamison

Every Girl Should Be Married
Movie · as Mr. Spitzer

An Innocent Affair
Movie · as Ken St. Clair

The Prince of Thieves
Movie · as The Friar

My Dear Secretary
Movie · as Deveny (Bryant Detective Agency)

The Main Street Kid
Movie · as The Great Martine

Lured
Movie · as Lyle Maxwell

Merton of the Movies
Movie · as Frank Mulvaney

Captain from Castile
Movie · as Prof. Botello

The Pilgrim Lady
Movie · as Clifford Latimer

My Darling Clementine
Movie · as Granville Thorndyke

Terror by Night
Movie · as Major Duncan-Bleek

Idea Girl
Movie · as J. C. Crow

The Phantom of 42nd Street
Movie · as Cecil Moore

Tell It to a Star
Movie · as Col. Ambrose Morgan

Sunbonnet Sue
Movie · as Jonathan

Where Do We Go from Here?
Movie · as General George Washington

Earl Carroll Vanities
Movie · as Grand Duke Paul

Bring on the Girls
Movie · as August

Men in Her Diary
Movie · as Douglas Crane

The Doughgirls
Movie · as Breckinridge Drake

My Gal Loves Music
Movie · as Rodney Spoonyer

Ever Since Venus
Movie · as J. Webster Hackett

Holy Matrimony
Movie · as Mr. Pennington

Slightly Dangerous
Movie · as English Gentleman

The Powers Girl
Movie · as John Robert Powers

So This Is Washington
Movie · as Chester W. Marshall

Stage Door Canteen
Movie · as Alan Mowbray

His Butler's Sister
Movie · as Buzz Jenkins

The Devil with Hitler
Movie · as Gesatan

Panama Hattie
Movie · as Jay Jerkins, Dick's Butler

Isle of Missing Men
Movie · as Dr. Brown

We Were Dancing
Movie · as Grand Duke Basil

A Yank at Eton
Movie · as Mr. Duncan

Yokel Boy
Movie · as R.B. Harris - Movie Producer
Three Blonde Mice
Movie · as Elmer Smith

The Mad Martindales
Movie · as Hugo Martindale

I Wake Up Screaming
Movie · as Robin Ray

That Hamilton Woman
Movie · as Sir William Hamilton

That Uncertain Feeling
Movie · as Doctor Vengard

The Perfect Snob
Movie · as Freddie Browning

Footlight Fever
Movie · as Don Avery

The Cowboy and the Blonde
Movie · as Phineas Johnson

Moon Over Her Shoulder
Movie · as Grover Sloan
French Fried Patootie
Movie

Ice-Capades
Movie · as Pete Ellis

The Villain Still Pursued Her
Movie · as Silas Cribbs

Music in My Heart
Movie · as Charles Spencer Gardner III

Curtain Call
Movie · as Donald Avery

Scatterbrain
Movie · as J.R. Russell

The Quarterback
Movie · as Professor Hobbs

The Boys from Syracuse
Movie · as Angelo

Way Down South
Movie · as Jacques Bouton

Never Say Die
Movie · as le Prince Smirnov

The Llano Kid
Movie · as John Travers

Hollywood Hotel
Movie · as Alexander Duprey

There Goes My Heart
Movie · as Penny E. Pennypepper

Topper Takes a Trip
Movie · as Wilkins - Topper's Butler

Merrily We Live
Movie · as Grosvenor

Topper
Movie · as Wilkins

On the Avenue
Movie · as Frederick Sims

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
Movie · as Henry Morgan

Stand-In
Movie · as Koslofski

The King and the Chorus Girl
Movie · as Donald Taylor

Music for Madame
Movie · as Leon Rodowsky

Marry the Girl
Movie · as Dr. Stryker

On Such a Night
Movie · as Prof. Richard Candle

Breakdowns of 1937
Movie · as Self

As Good as Married
Movie · as Wally

My Man Godfrey
Movie · as Tommy Gray

Rose Marie
Movie · as Premier

Desire
Movie · as Dr. Maurice Pauquet

Muss 'em Up
Movie · as Paul Harding

Ladies in Love
Movie · as Paul Sandor

The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Movie · as Lawrence Waterson

Fatal Lady
Movie · as Uberto Malla

Mary of Scotland
Movie · as Throckmorton

Rainbow on the River
Movie · as Ralph Layton

Give Us This Night
Movie · as Forcellini

Four Days Wonder
Movie · as Archibald Fenton

Becky Sharp
Movie · as Rawdon Crawley

The Gay Deception
Movie · as Lord Clewe

In Person
Movie · as Jay Holmes

Night Life of the Gods
Movie · as Hunter Hawk

Lady Tubbs
Movie · as Elyot Wembsleigh

She Couldn't Take It
Movie · as Alan Bartlett

Charlie Chan in London
Movie · as Geoffrey Richmond

One More River
Movie · as Forsythe

Long Lost Father
Movie · as Sir Anthony "Tony" Gelding

Little Man, What Now?
Movie · as Franz Schlüter

The House of Rothschild
Movie · as Prince Metternich

Cheaters
Movie · as Paul Southern

The Girl from Missouri
Movie · as Lord Douglas

Where Sinners Meet
Movie · as Nicholas

Embarrassing Moments
Movie · as Aheam

Roman Scandals
Movie · as Majordomo

A Study in Scarlet
Movie · as Lestrade

Berkeley Square
Movie · as Major Clinton

Peg o' My Heart
Movie · as Capt. Christopher 'Chris' Brent

Her Secret
Movie · as Nils Norton

Voltaire
Movie · as Count de Sarnac

The World Changes
Movie · as Sir Philip Ivor

Midnight Club
Movie · as Arthur Bradley

Jewel Robbery
Movie · as Detective Fritz

Winner Take All
Movie · as Forbes, the etiquette teacher

Hotel Continental
Movie · as Walter Underwood

Two Against the World
Movie · as George 'Georgie' Walton

The Man Called Back
Movie · as King's Counsel

The Phantom President
Movie · as George Washington (uncredited)

Man About Town
Movie · as Ivan Boris

The World and the Flesh
Movie · as Dimitri

The Silent Witness
Movie · as Arthur Drinton

The Man from Yesterday
Movie · as Dr. Waite

Lovers Courageous
Movie · as Lamone

Sherlock Holmes
Movie · as Colonel Gore-King

The Man in Possession
Movie · as Sir Charles Cartwright

Alexander Hamilton
Movie · as George Washington

God's Gift to Women
Movie · as Auguste, Toto's Butler

Guilty Hands
Movie · as Gordon Rich

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
Movie · as Mr. Mowbray (uncredited)

Left Over Ladies
Movie · as Jerry

Honor of the Family
Movie · as Tony Revere

Nice Women
Movie · as Mark Chandler