Eric Blore

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Eric Blore (born December 23, 1887 in London , † March 2, 1959 in Hollywood ) was a British theater and film actor .

Life

After graduating from school, Eric Blore initially worked as an insurance agent. However , he was interested in the theater on a trip to Australia . When he returned to England he quit his job to become an actor. He mainly focused on British comedies and was henceforth seen in many plays and revues in London.

In 1923 he moved to the United States , where he appeared several times on Broadway in New York until 1933 . In 1926 he took over a small supporting role in a silent film version of The Great Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby ) with Warner Baxter and William Powell and played for the first time in a Hollywood film with. From 1930 he was regularly in comic roles in front of the camera. For RKO Pictures he played in a total of five film musicals with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers , as in Tanz mit mir! ( The Gay Divorcee , 1934) and I dance myself into your heart ( Top Hat , 1935). Blore usually embodied slightly strange or nervous, but courteous and polite characters, mostly head waiter or as a typical English butler. This is also the case in the popular Columbia crime series The Lone Wolf , in which he was seen eleven times as butler Jamison from 1940 to 1947.

Over the years, Blore has appeared in more than 80 films. Before he retired from the film business in 1955, he was hired in 1949 for the speaking role of Mr. Toad in Walt Disney's animated film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ( The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ).

Blore married Violet Winter in 1917, but she died two years later. He had one child with his second wife, Clara Mackin, whom he married in 1926. Eric Blore died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1959 at the age of 71. He was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale , California.

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SURNAME Blore, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1959
Place of death Hollywood