
Alan Mowbray
Born August 17, 1896 · London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Mowbray MM, (18 August 1896 - 25 March 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He began as a stage actor, making his way to the United States where he appeared in Broadway plays and toured the country as part of a theater troupe. As Alan Mowbray, he made his motion picture debut in 1931, going on to a career primarily as a character actor in more than 140 films including the sterling butler role in the comedy Merrily We Live, and playing the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Colonel Flack. During World War II, he made a memorable appearance as the Devil in the Hal Roach propaganda comedy The Devil with Hitler. He appeared in some two dozen guest roles on various television series. Mowbray was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, with outside interests that led to membership in Britain's Royal Geographic Society. He played the title role in the television series Colonel Humphrey Flack, which first appeared in 1953-1954 and then was revived in 1958-1959. In the 1954-1955 television season Mowbray played Mr. Swift, the drama coach of the character Mickey Mulligan, in NBC's short-lived situation comedy The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan. Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Mowbray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Around the World in 80 Days

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The King and I

Terror by Night

My Darling Clementine

Desire

That Hamilton Woman

Mary of Scotland

Wagon Master

Lured

My Man Godfrey

Topper

Androcles and the Lion

I Wake Up Screaming

In Person

The King's Thief

Nice Women

Slightly Dangerous

Roman Scandals

Every Girl Should Be Married

The Phantom President

Blackbeard, the Pirate

That Uncertain Feeling
TV Shows

The Beverly Hillbillies

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

The Red Skelton Show

Petticoat Junction

Burke's Law

Four Star Playhouse

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Ford Television Theatre

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Life Of Riley

The Patty Duke Show

Startime

The Bob Cummings Show

The Gale Storm Show

The Investigators

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Mr. & Mrs. North

Mister Roberts

Dante

Blondie

Meet McGraw

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Fibber McGee & Molly
More Movies

The House of Rothschild

Scatterbrain

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

Stage Door Canteen

Holy Matrimony

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

The Gay Deception

Just Across the Street

Ladies in Love

My Dear Secretary

The Villain Still Pursued Her

The Jackpot

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

The Steel Cage

Captain from Castile

Merrily We Live

Yokel Boy

Rose Marie

Cheaters

She Couldn't Take It

The World Changes

Becky Sharp

You're My Everything

Men in Her Diary

Jewel Robbery

There Goes My Heart

Music for Madame

Little Man, What Now?

Panama Hattie

Going Hollywood: The '30s

An Innocent Affair

The Lady and the Bandit

Guilty Hands

Topper Takes a Trip

His Butler's Sister

Way Down South

The Powers Girl

Honor of the Family

Crosswinds

One More River

Muss 'em Up

The Boys from Syracuse

Peg o' My Heart

Isle of Missing Men

Breakdowns of 1937

Voltaire

The Perfect Snob

The Devil with Hitler

Never Say Die

The Case Against Mrs. Ames

Where Do We Go from Here?

Bring on the Girls

Stand-In

Charlie Chan in London

The Pilgrim Lady

The Doughgirls

The Phantom of 42nd Street

Embarrassing Moments

Music in My Heart

The Prince of Thieves

The Mad Martindales

Two Against the World

The Girl from Missouri

Ice-Capades

Footlight Fever

Winner Take All

Where Sinners Meet

My Gal Loves Music

Long Lost Father

Lady Tubbs

Berkeley Square

Merton of the Movies

The Man Called Back

A Majority of One

A Study in Scarlet

The King and the Chorus Girl

Tell It to a Star

Man About Town

The Man from Yesterday

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'

Midnight Club

A Yank at Eton

Hollywood Hotel

Curtain Call

Rainbow on the River

We Were Dancing

So This Is Washington

Give Us This Night

Earl Carroll Vanities

The World and the Flesh

Marry the Girl

Alexander Hamilton

Fatal Lady

The Lone Wolf and His Lady

The Cowboy and the Blonde

The Lovable Cheat

On the Avenue

Sherlock Holmes

Social Lion

The Quarterback

Lovers Courageous

Hotel Continental

The Main Street Kid

The Man in Possession

On Such a Night

As Good as Married

Her Secret

The Llano Kid

Ever Since Venus

Sunbonnet Sue

Moon Over Her Shoulder

The Silent Witness

God's Gift to Women

Night Life of the Gods




