Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1877-11-16 (85 years old)
Deathday
1962-02-20
Place of Birth
Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Also known As
Herbert Halliwell Hobbes
Halliwell Hobbs
Holliwell Hobbes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor. His stage debut was in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats. Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid-1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing t...
1931
as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
1936
as Hawkins
1931
as Smythe
1938
as Mr. DePinna
1935
as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
1942
as Walton the Butler
1944
as Cleghorn, the butler
1932
as A Prospective Tenant
1937
as Archbishop
1946
as Clenchfield
1933
as Butler
1949
as Nicholas Forsyte
1941
as Rev. Nelson
1935
as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
1934
as George Dane
1932
as Kibbee
1941
as Sisk
1932
as Lord Litchfield
1940
as Burton
1933
as Churchill
1934
as General C.O. Furlong
1936
as Dr. Lister
1941
as Johnson
1939
as Dr. Lovelake
1931
as Hopkins (uncredited)
1940
as Lord Chancellor
1938
as Prof. Bernard Goodman
1934
as Sir Walter Carrister
1937
as Dean Meredith
1932
as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
1933
as British Major General
1936
as Cambaceres
1930
as Stephen Spettigue
1930
as Ruddick
1939
as Doctor
1932
as Phillips
1931
as Barton - the Butler
1939
as Butler Williams
1930
as The Siegneur
1931
as Larkin
1937
as Count Strunsky
1933
as Brock
1934
as Sir Leopold Fischer
1938
as Butler
1944
as Charles, the Butler
1947
as The Coroner
1934
as Col. Dawson Ames
1930
as Lord St. Arran
1932
as Baron Emil von Sturm
1933
as Dr. Lorenzo
1933
as Louis
1932
as Mr. Smith
1933
as Mr. James Felton
1935
as Father Joseph
1935
as Monsieur Paulet
1936
as Man (uncredited)
1942
1936
as Beuhl - the Butler
1931
as Roget
1936
as Oliver Warren
1944
as Mr. Muffin
1939
as Dean Burton, Winfield College
1936
as Lord Raglan
1939
as Captain Mathews
1939
as Dobbs
1934
as Skinner
1934
as Official
1939
as British Chaplain
1935
as Ernest Whiteoaks
1938
as Dominie Campbell
1937
as Jeremiah
1936
as Professor Howard
1942
as Bennett
1948
as Bishop of Tisbury
1932
as Hilton
1932
as Martin
1943
as Alfred Brunton, the butler
1935
as Father of Little Girl
1940
as Astronomer
1940
as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
1940
as Divorce Judge (uncredited)
1942
as Mr. Barrie
1944
as Soames (uncredited)
1943
as Doctor
1938
as Sir John Galt
1933
as Burford-Gordon's butler
1936
as Grandfather, the Colonel
1956
as Ely B. Windgate
1929
1938
as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
1935
as Lord Sunderland (uncredited)
1942
as Gen. Armstrong
1934
as Mr. Chase
1934
as Bollard
1936
as Hotchkiss
1943
as Willebrandt
1938
as John, Butler
1934
as First Bobby
1948
as Martin
1947
as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
1933
as Malcolm Dearing
1944
as Lt Eberhard
1929
as Rigaud
1937
as W.H. Smith
1935
as Theodore
1931
as Sir James (uncredited)
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