Arthur Hohl

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Arthur Hohl ( 21st May 1889 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania - 10. March 1964 in Los Angeles County , California ) was an American theater and film actor .

Life

Arthur Hohl began his acting career in the theater and was seen regularly on Broadway from 1917 to 1932 . There he played in several productions, including Ibsen's Ghosts and Shaw's wife Warren's trade . He made his film debut in 1924, but did not appear regularly in films until 1932. In these, the tall, gaunt-looking hollow became a busy supporting actor , who mostly played villains or other neurotic characters. The All Movie Guide wrote about Hohl: "With haunted eyes and a behavior of false subservience, Hohl slurred his way through many rogue or somewhat thieving roles."

In the course of his career, Hohl shot in almost all genres and for most of the major film studios in Hollywood. In Cecil B. DeMille's history strip Cleopatra , for example, he took on the role of Brutus in 1934 , who plans the murder of his foster father Caesar. He starred in several of the Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce , as the sleazy servant of Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) and as a Canadian landlord who becomes the prime suspect in a murder in The Claw (1944) ). Occasionally he was given the chance to play friendlier roles, for example in the horror film The Island of Lost Souls (1932), where he helped the hero couple to escape from the island. Hohl took one of his last roles in 1947 as a real estate agent in Charlie Chaplin's black comedy Monsieur Verdoux , and two years later he retired from the big screen after having made over 100 films.

Fifteen years after his last film, Arthur Hohl died in Los Angeles County in March 1964 at the age of 74.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Arthur Hohl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Arthur Hohl | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved February 16, 2019 (American English).