Halliwell Hobbes

Personal Info

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

Halliwell Hobbes

Biography

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...

Acting

1931

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew

1936

1931

1938

1935

Charlie Chan in Shanghai

as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner

1942

The Undying Monster

as Walton the Butler

1944

The Invisible Man's Revenge

as Cleghorn, the butler

1932

Payment Deferred

as A Prospective Tenant

1937

1946

Canyon Passage

as Clenchfield

1933

1949

That Forsyte Woman

as Nicholas Forsyte

1941

That Hamilton Woman

as Rev. Nelson

1935

The Right to Live

as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr

1934

She Was a Lady

as George Dane

1932

Love Affair

as Kibbee

1932

Devil's Lottery

as Lord Litchfield

1933

Midnight Mary

as Churchill

1934

The Key

as General C.O. Furlong

1941

Sunny

as Johnson

1939

Tell No Tales

as Dr. Lovelake

1931

Five and Ten

as Hopkins (uncredited)

1940

The Earl of Chicago

as Lord Chancellor

1938

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

as Prof. Bernard Goodman

1934

British Agent

as Sir Walter Carrister

1937

Varsity Show

as Dean Meredith

1932

Cynara

as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)

1933

Captured!

as British Major General

1936

Hearts Divided

as Cambaceres

1930

Charley's Aunt

as Stephen Spettigue

1930

Grumpy

as Ruddick

1932

The Menace

as Phillips

1931

The Woman Between

as Barton - the Butler

1939

Remember?

as Butler Williams

1930

The Right of Way

as The Siegneur

1931

1937

Fit for a King

as Count Strunsky

1933

1934

Father Brown, Detective

as Sir Leopold Fischer

1938

1944

Casanova Brown

as Charles, the Butler

1947

If Winter Comes

as The Coroner

1934

Mandalay

as Col. Dawson Ames

1930

Scotland Yard

as Lord St. Arran

1932

6 Hours to Live

as Baron Emil von Sturm

1933

I Am Suzanne!

as Dr. Lorenzo

1932

Lovers Courageous

as Mr. Smith

1933

Looking Forward

as Mr. James Felton

1935

Cardinal Richelieu

as Father Joseph

1935

Folies Bergère

as Monsieur Paulet

1936

Mary of Scotland

as Man (uncredited)

1936

Spendthrift

as Beuhl - the Butler

1936

Give Me Your Heart

as Oliver Warren

1944

Gaslight

as Mr. Muffin

1939

Naughty But Nice

as Dean Burton, Winfield College

1936

The White Angel

as Lord Raglan

1939

Pacific Liner

as Captain Mathews

1934

Menace

as Skinner

1934

We Live Again

as Official

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

as British Chaplain

1935

Jalna

as Ernest Whiteoaks

1938

Kidnapped

as Dominie Campbell

1937

Maid of Salem

as Jeremiah

1936

Here Comes Trouble

as Professor Howard

1948

The Black Arrow

as Bishop of Tisbury

1932

1932

1943

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

as Alfred Brunton, the butler

1935

Vanessa: Her Love Story

as Father of Little Girl

1940

The Sea Hawk

as Astronomer

1940

Waterloo Bridge

as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)

1940

Lady with Red Hair

as Divorce Judge (uncredited)

1942

1944

Mr. Skeffington

as Soames (uncredited)

1943

1938

Storm Over Bengal

as Sir John Galt

1933

If I Were Free

as Burford-Gordon's butler

1936

Changing of the Guard

as Grandfather, the Colonel

1956

Miracle in the Rain

as Ely B. Windgate

1938

A Christmas Carol

as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)

1935

Captain Blood

as Lord Sunderland (uncredited)

1942

To Be or Not to Be

as Gen. Armstrong

1934

Double Door

as Mr. Chase

1934

Riptide

as Bollard

1936

1943

His Butler's Sister

as Willebrandt

1938

The Jury's Secret

as John, Butler

1947

Hollywood Wonderland

as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)

1933

A Study in Scarlet

as Malcolm Dearing

1944

Information Please

as Lt Eberhard

1929

Jealousy

as Rigaud

1937

Parnell

as W.H. Smith

1935

1931

The Lady Refuses

as Sir James (uncredited)

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