Aubrey Mather

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Aubrey Mather (born December 17, 1885 in Minchinhampton , Gloucestershire , † January 16, 1958 in London ) was a British theater and film actor .

Life

Aubrey Mather began his acting career on the stages of Great Britain in 1905 . He made his London theater debut in 1909 in the play Brewster's Millions . Ten years later he first appeared on New York's Broadway in The Luck of the Navy . Over the years he also appeared there in Shakespeare performances, such as B. 1936 as Polonius in Hamlet or 1950 in As You Like It .

From 1930 he also played in a number of British films, including a small supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Sabotage (1936). In the 1940s Mather also worked in Hollywood , where he often played the butler in small character roles , such as in Mervyn LeRoy's film drama Found Years ( Random Harvest , 1942) alongside Ronald Colman and Greer Garson or in Jack Conway's comedy The Greyhound and the Lady ( The Hucksters , 1947) with Clark Gable and Deborah Kerr . In 1954 he retired from show business.

Aubrey Mather died in London in 1958 at the age of 72.

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SURNAME Mather, Aubrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Minchinhampton , Gloucestershire , England
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1958
Place of death London