Alan Mowbray
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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.
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Acting
Movie
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Val Parnell
1956
Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
as British Consul
1956
Movie
My Darling Clementine
as Granville Thorndyke
1946
Movie
The King and I
as Sir John Hay
1956
Movie
My Man Godfrey
as Tommy Gray
1936
Movie
Wagon Master
as Dr. A. Locksley Hall
1950
Movie
Terror by Night
as Major Duncan-Bleek
1946
Movie
Topper
as Wilkins
1937
TV
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Montrose
1962
Movie
Lured
as Lyle Maxwell
1947
Movie
That Hamilton Woman
as Sir William Hamilton
1941
Movie
I Wake Up Screaming
as Robin Ray
1941
TV
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Harry Blackburn
1964
Movie
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
as Melton
1949
Movie
That Uncertain Feeling
as Doctor Vengard
1941
Movie
Desire
as Dr. Maurice Pauquet
1936
Movie
Blackbeard, the Pirate
as Noll
1952
Movie
Jewel Robbery
as Detective Fritz
1932
TV
Maverick
as Luke Abigor
1957
Movie
Mary of Scotland
as Throckmorton
1936
TV
Petticoat Junction
as Lucius J. Penrose
1963
Movie
Merrily We Live
as Grosvenor
1938
Movie
Charlie Chan in London
as Geoffrey Richmond
1934
TV
The Flying Nun
as Father Duffy
1967
