H.B. Warner

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1875-10-25 (83 years old)

Deathday

1958-12-21

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

H.B. Warner

Biography

Henry Byron Warner (often credited as H.B. Warner; 25 October 1875 – 21 December 1958) was an English actor. He was the definitive cinematic Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927). He was born into a prominent theatrical family on October 26, 1875 in London. His father was Charles Warner, and his grandfather was James Warner, both prominent English actors. He replaced J.B. Warner as Jesus in The King of Kings (1927) when J.B. died of tuberculosis at age 29. (J.B. was not Henry's brother. J.B. had taken the professional last name "Warner" because Henry's family took him in.) Henry Warner's family wanted him to beco...

Acting

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as H.B. Warner

1946

1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Senate Majority Leader

1937

Lost Horizon

as Chang

1920

One Hour Before Dawn

as George Clayton

1946

Strange Impersonation

as Dr. Mansfield, plastic surgeon

1946

Prospecting for Petroleum

as The Voice of History (voice)

1944

Rogues' Gallery

as Professor Reynolds

1936

1932

1928

Romance of a Rogue

as Bruce Lowry

1947

High Wall

as Mr. Slocum

1929

The Doctor's Secret

as Richard Garson

1935

A Tale of Two Cities

as Theophile Gabelle

1941

All That Money Can Buy

as Justice Hawthorne

1917

Danger Trail

as John Howland

1931

Five Star Final

as Michael Townsend

1942

Crossroads

as Prosecuting Attorney

1938

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

as Colonel Nielsen

1940

New Moon

as Father Michel

1938

1927

French Dressing

as Phillip Grey

1929

Tiger Rose

as Dr. Cusick

1942

The Boss of Big Town

as Jeffrey Moore

1927

The King of Kings

as Jesus, The Christ

1939

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

as Richard Lawrence

1931

Expensive Women

as Melville Raymond

1939

1924

Is Love Everything?

as Jordan Southwick

1926

Whispering Smith

as 'Whispering Smith'

1920

Felix O'Day

as Felix O'Day

1930

The Furies

as Oliver Bedlow

1928

The Divine Lady

as Sir William Hamilton

1947

Driftwood

as Rev. Hollingsworth

1939

Bulldog Drummond's Bride

as Colonel Nielson

1933

Supernatural

as Dr. Carl Houston

1929

The Trial of Mary Dugan

as District Attorney Galway

1938

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

as Colonel J. A. Nielsen

1936

The Garden Murder Case

as Major Fenwicke-Ralston

1930

Liliom

as Chief Magistrate

1930

The Green Goddess

as Major Crespin

1932

Cross-Examination

as Gerald Waring

1944

Enemy of Women

as Col. Eberhart Brandt

1931

The Reckless Hour

as Walter Nichols

1934

In Old Santa Fe

as Charlie Miller

1934

Behold My Wife!

as Hubert Carter

1923

Zaza

as Bernard Dufresne

1938

The Toy Wife

as Victor Brigard

1927

Sorrell and Son

as Stephen Sorrell

1930

The Second Floor Mystery

as Inspector Bray

1935

Born to Gamble

as Carter Mathews

1917

1936

Along Came Love

as Dr. Martin

1933

Jennie Gerhardt

as William Gerhardt

1938

Army Girl

as Col. Armstrong

1939

Let Freedom Ring

as Rutledge

1936

Moonlight Murder

as Godfrey Chiltern

1932

The Menace

as Inspector Tracy

1949

El Paso

as Judge Fletcher

1932

1932

Unholy Love

as Dr. Daniel Gregory

1932

The Crusader

as Phillip Brandon

1919

The Pagan God

as Bruce Winthrop

1941

City of Missing Girls

as Capt. McVeigh

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

as Hugh Gibson

1941

Topper Returns

as Mr. Carrington

1929

The Show of Shows

as The Victim - Guillotine Sequence (uncredited)

1932

Charlie Chan's Chance

as Inspector Fife

1951

The First Legion

as Father José Sierra

1943

Hitler's Children

as The Bishop

1942

A Yank in Libya

as Herbert Forbes

1917

God's Man

as Arnold L'Hommedieu

1916

Shell 43

as William Berner

1945

Captain Tugboat Annie

as Judge Abbott

1931

A Woman of Experience

as Hugh Schmidt

1939

The Rains Came

as Maharajah

1934

Night Alarm

as Henry B. Smith

1930

Wild Company

as Henry Grayson

1941

The Corsican Brothers

as Dr. Enrico Paoli

1951

Journey Into Light

as Wiz, the Wino

1929

Stark Mad

as Prof. Dangerfield

1947

The Judge Steps Out

as Chief Justice Hayes

1938

Kidnapped

as Angus Rankeiller

1944

Faces in the Fog

as Defense Attorney Rankins

1936

Rose of the Rancho

as Don Pasqual Castro

1929

1937

Victoria the Great

as Lord Melbourne

1916

The Beggar of Cawnpore

as Dr. Robert Lowndes

1916

The Raiders

as Scott Wells

1916

The Vagabond Prince

as Prince Tonio

1943

Women in Bondage

as Pastor Renz

1951

1932

1932

A Woman Commands

as Col. Stradimirovitsch

1949

Hellfire

as Brother Joseph

1914

The Lost Paradise

as Reuben Warren

1951

Here Comes the Groom

as Uncle Elihu

1930

On Your Back

as Raymond Pryor

1941

South of Tahiti

as High Chief Kawalima

1937

Our Fighting Navy

as British Consul Brent

1926

Silence

as Jim Warren

1934

Grand Canary

as Dr Ismay

1929

The Gamblers

as James Darwin

1956

1934

Sorrell and Son

as Captain Stephen Sorrell

1948

The Prince of Thieves

as Gilbert Head

1928

Conquest

as James Farnham

1944

Action in Arabia

as Abdul al-Rashid

1934

1930

The Princess and the Plumber

as Prince Conrad of Daritzia

1924

The Man from Broadway

as James Sanford Richardson

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1936

Blackmailer

as Michael Rankin

1946

Gentleman Joe Palooka

as Sen. McCarden

1916

The Market of Vain Desire

as John Armstrong

1921

When We Were Twenty-One

as Richard Carewe

1933

Christopher Bean

as Maxwell Davenport

1928

Man-Made Women

as Jules Moret

1929

Wedding Rings

as Lewis Dike

1914

The Ghost Breaker

as Warren Jarvis

1900

English Nell

as Duke of Monmouth

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