Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray (born August 18, 1896 in London , † March 25, 1969 in Hollywood ; actually Ernest Allen ) was a British theater and film actor .
Life
Alan Mowbray was born Ernest Allen in London in 1896. During the First World War he served in the British Army and received both the British Military Medal and the French Croix de guerre for his services in combat . After the war he began his career as a theater actor and appeared in London's West End , among other places . He took his stage name Alan Mowbray from a letter that the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson had sent to his cousin Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson. In the 1920s he moved to the United States , where he toured from 1923 to 1929 with the Theater Guild in plays by Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw . From 1926 he was also seen in comedies on New York Broadway . When the talkies revolutionized cinema in the late 1920s, theater actors like Mowbray were particularly in demand in Hollywood . In 1931 he finally stood in front of the film camera for the first time and from then on was very often cast in supporting roles as a British gentleman , butler or doctor. In Alexander Hamilton (1931) he played US President George Washington , for which he received good reviews.
Over the years he has appeared in various film genres. For example in comedies like Mein Mann Godfrey ( My Man Godfrey , 1936) alongside William Powell and Carole Lombard , in film dramas like Alexander Korda's Lord Nelson's Last Love ( That Hamilton Woman , 1941) with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh , but also in westerns as John Ford's My Darling Clementine ( My Darling Clementine , 1946) or in thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock's the man who knew Too Much ( the man who knew Too Much , 1956) alongside James Stewart and Doris Day . A specialty of him were comedic Butler, whom he including in the of Hal Roach produced comedies Topper - The blonde ghost (1937) and How we live but happy! (1938).
In the 1950s and 1960s Mowbray appeared in a variety of American television series. He was also one of the founding members of the US actors' union Screen Actors Guild , for which he served as the first vice-president from 1933. He was also a member of the Royal Geographical Society .
From 1927 Mowbray was married to Lorayne Carpenter, with whom he had two children. The marriage lasted until his death. Alan Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 at the age of 72 in the Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood . He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City , California .
Filmography (selection)
- 1931: God's Gift to Women
- 1931: Guilty Hands
- 1931: Alexander Hamilton
- 1932: World and the Flesh
- 1932: The Man from Yesterday
- 1932: Winner Take All
- 1932: A thief with class ( Jewel Robbery )
- 1933: Our Betters
- 1933: Berkeley Square
- 1933: A Study in Scarlet ( A Study in Scarlet )
- 1933: The World Changes
- 1934: Long Lost Father
- 1934: Little Man, What Now?
- 1934: The Rothschilds ( The House of Rothschild )
- 1934: Millionaires Preferred ( The Girl from Missouri )
- 1934: Charlie Chan in London
- 1935: Vanity Fair (Becky Sharp)
- 1935: The Gay Deception
- 1935: She Couldn't Take It
- 1935: In person
- 1936: Rose-Marie
- 1936: Pearls for happiness (Desire)
- 1936: Mary of Scotland (Mary of Scotland)
- 1936: My husband Godfrey (My Man Godfrey)
- 1937: Topper - The blonde ghost (Topper)
- 1937: For you, Madame ... (Vogues of 1938)
- 1937: Mr. Dodd goes to Hollywood (stand-in)
- 1938: Millionaire gone astray (There Goes My Heart)
- 1938: How do we live happily! (Merrily We Live)
- 1938: Topper goes on a trip (Topper Takes a Trip)
- 1939: Way Down South
- 1940: Music in My Heart
- 1940: The Boys from Syracuse
- 1941: Lord Nelson's Last Love ( That Hamilton Woman )
- 1941: Marriage Comedy ( That Uncertain Feeling )
- 1941: Ice-Capades
- 1941: I Wake Up Screaming
- 1942: We Were Dancing
- 1942: The Devil with Hitler
- 1942: Isle of Missing Men
- 1943: The Stubenfee ( His Butler's Sister )
- 1943: Slightly Dangerous
- 1943: So This Is Washington
- 1943: Holy Matrimony
- 1945: Earl Carroll Vanities
- 1945: Where Do We Go from Here?
- 1945: Sunbonnet Sue
- 1946: Jewel theft ( Terror by Night )
- 1946: Law of the Prairie ( My Darling Clementine )
- 1947: Lured ( Lured )
- 1947: Captain from Castile ( Captain from Castile )
- 1948: Robin Hood's great love ( The Prince of Thieves )
- 1948: The henpecked hero ( An Innocent Affair )
- 1948: Every Girl Should marry ( Every Girl Should Be Married )
- 1948: My Dear Secretary
- 1949: The Lovable Cheat
- 1950: West St. Louis ( Wagon Master )
- 1950: Unlucky Adventures ( The Jackpot )
- 1952: Battle for Pirate Treasure ( Blackbeard, the Pirate )
- 1952: Androcles and the Lion ( Androcles and the Lion )
- 1955: The King's Thief ( The King's Thief )
- 1956: The Man Who Knew Too Much ( The Man Who Knew Too Much )
- 1956: The King and I ( The King and I )
- 1956: In 80 days around the world ( Around the World in Eighty Days )
- 1961: 1000 miles to Yokohama ( A Majority of One )
Web links
- Alan Mowbray in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alan Mowbray in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Alan Mowbray in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Alan Mowbray in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alan Mowbray in the All Movie Guide (English)
- ↑ cf. sag.org ( Screen Actors Guild )
- ^ Alan Mowbray, Character Actor, Is Dead at 72 . In: The New York Times , March 26, 1969.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mowbray, Alan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Allen, Ernest (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1896 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1969 |
Place of death | Hollywood |