Ivan F. Simpson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1875-02-04 (76 years old)

Deathday

1951-10-12

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Ivan F. Simpson

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ivan F. Simpson (8 February 1875 – 12 October 1951) was a Scottish film and stage actor. Ivan Simpson was born in Scotland and went as a young man to New York City, where he worked for four decades on Broadway from 1906 until his death. In 1915 he started his film silent career and starred in notable silent films like The Green Goddess from 1923, where he played the role of Mister Watkins. He also replied in this role seven years later in the sound film version of The Green Goddess. In 1929 he portrayed Hugh Myers in Disraeli, where he played along his close friend George Arliss. Arliss and Simpson appe...

Acting

1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Reverend Mordaunt

1942

Random Harvest

as The Vicar

1932

1930

1915

The Dictator

as Simpson

1940

New Moon

as Guizot

1934

The Little Minister

as Sanders Webster

1930

1943

1935

Captain Blood

as Prosecutor

1942

Nazi Agent

as Professor Sterling (as Ivan Simpson)

1933

Midnight Mary

as Tindle

1931

Safe in Hell

as Crunch

1938

1929

Disraeli

as Sir Hugh Myers

1934

Stingaree

as Man with Beard (uncredited)

1937

Youth on Parole

as Henchman (uncredited)

1939

Never Say Die

as Kretsky

1934

1934

British Agent

as 'Poohbah' Evans

1934

1933

Her Secret

as Lathrop

1931

1935

1937

London by Night

as Burroughs

1930

Manslaughter

as Morson

1930

Old English

as Joe Pillin

1933

The Silk Express

as Johnson, Kilgore's Secretary

1930

1930

1935

The Bishop Misbehaves

as Mr. Grantham

1932

1935

Splendor

as Fletcher

1942

The Male Animal

as Dean Frederick Damon

1925

A Kiss for Cinderella

as Mr. Cutaway

1925

1939

Made for Each Other

as Simon (uncredited)

1939

1939

Tower of London

as Anne's Protector

1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

as Gates - Trial Prosecutor (uncredited)

1932

The Crash

as Hodge

1943

1938

Kidnapped

as Old Man

1934

1934

1937

Maid of Salem

as Rev. Parris

1931

The Reckless Hour

as Stevens - Adams' Butler (uncredited)

1940

The Earl of Chicago

as Hargraves (uncredited)

1940

The Invisible Man Returns

as Mr. Cotton (uncredited)

1941

The Body Disappears

as Dean Claxton

1933

The Monkey's Paw

as Mr. White

1923

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Proprietor of Kent Road Tavern (uncredited)

1935

1930

The Sea God

as Pearly Nick

1938

Invisible Enemy

as Michael (as Ivan Simpson)

1925

1931

1925

Womanhandled

as Butler

1943

My Kingdom for a Cook

as Professor Harlow

1942

1933

1936

Trouble for Two

as Collins (as Ivan Simpson)

1943

Two Weeks to Live

as Professor Albert Frisby (as Ivan Simpson)

1925

Lovers in Quarantine

as The Silent Passenger

1932

Sherlock Holmes

as Faulkner

1943

Above Suspicion

as Porter in Oxford (Uncredited)

1935

1943

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Woods - the Minister

1942

1924

Twenty Dollars a Week

as James Pettison

1936

1935

East of Java

as Resident

1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

as Aubrey's Lawyer (Uncredited)

1939

Rulers of the Sea

as Secretary (Uncredited)

1938

Marie Antoinette

as Sauce (uncredited)

1942

Nightmare

as Money Changer

1934

The House of Rothschild

as Amschel Rothschild

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