Arthur Hohl
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)
- 1924: Wolfe and Montcalm
- 1924: The Puritans
- 1924: It Is the Law
- 1932: In Sign of the Cross
- 1932: The Island of Lost Souls (Iceland of Lost Souls)
- 1933: The Kennel Murder Case
- 1933: Man's Castle
- 1933: Parade in the Spotlight (Footlight Parade)
- 1933: Baby Face
- 1933: The Life of Jimmy Dolan
- 1933: children on the streets (Wild Boys of the Road)
- 1934: A Modern Hero
- 1934: Cleopatra
- 1934: Jimmy the Gent
- 1935: super speed
- 1935: Talk of the Town (The Whole Town's Talking)
- 1935: Novak loves America (Romance in Manhattan)
- 1936: Signals to London (Lloyds to London)
- 1936: The Devil-Doll
- 1936: Show Boat
- 1938: Stablemates
- 1939: They Shall Have Music
- 1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- 1939: Blackmail
- 1939: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
- 1941: These are guys (Men of Boys Town)
- 1942: Night in the harbor (Moontide)
- 1942: Adventure in the South Seas (Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake)
- 1943: The Woman of the Town
- 1944: Mystery of the River Boat
- 1944: Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Crawl
- 1944: Sherlock Holmes: The Spider's Nest (Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman)
- 1944: Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- 1945: Liebesbriefe (Loveletters)
- 1945: The Thin Man Goes Home (The Thin Man Goes Home)
- 1946: The Wilderness Calls (The Yearling)
- 1947: A Life Like a Millionaire (It Happened on 5th Avenue)
- 1947: Monsieur Verdoux
- 1948: The Three Musketeers (The Three Musketeers)
- 1949: Sailorless (Down to the Sea in Ships)
Web links
- Arthur Hohl in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Arthur Hohl in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur Hohl | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved February 16, 2019 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hollow, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theater and film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1964 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles County , California , United States |