Cecil Kellaway

Actor

About

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Birth Place

South Africa

Born

August 22, 1890

Died

February 28, 1973

Filmography

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Getting Straight (1970)

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

Fitzwilly (1967)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Photos & Videos

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Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The -- (Movie Clip) The Meat Still Edible

Phantom Raiders (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Thousand Bags Of Sand

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Getting Straight (1970)

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

Fitzwilly (1967)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

The Cardinal (1963)

Monsignor Monaghan

Tammy Tell Me True (1961)

Francis of Assisi (1961)

Cardinal Hugolino

The Private Lives of Adam & Eve (1961)

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

The Proud Rebel (1958)

Johnny Trouble (1957)

The Toy Tiger (1956)

Interrupted Melody (1955)

Female on the Beach (1955)

Osbert Sorenson

The Prodigal (1955)

Young Bess (1953)

Cruisin' Down the River (1953)

Thadeus Jackson

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Prof. Thurgood Elson

Paris Model (1953)

Patrick James "P.J." Sullivan

Thunder in the East (1953)

My Wife's Best Friend (1952)

Dr. Reverend Thomas Chamberlain

Just Across the Street (1952)

Half Angel (1951)

Katie Did It (1951)

Nathaniel B. Wakely VI

Francis Goes to the Races (1951)

Colonel Travers

The Highwayman (1951)

The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)

Dr. Kevin G. Maguire

Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)

Portrait of Jennie (1949)

Joan of Arc (1948)

Jean Le Maistre, Inquisitor of Rouen

Always Together (1948)

Jonathan Turner [also known as Oliver Ramsey]

The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948)

The Luck of the Irish (1948)

Variety Girl (1947)

Unconquered (1947)

The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Thomas Gainsborough

Easy to Wed (1946)

J. B. Allenbury

Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

Love Letters (1945)

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Frenchman's Creek (1944)

Practically Yours (1944)

Marvin P. Meglin

Mrs. Parkington (1944)

Edward, Prince of Wales

Forever and a Day (1943)

Man at dinner party

The Crystal Ball (1943)

The Good Fellows (1943)

It Ain't Hay (1943)

Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

Take a Letter, Darling (1942)

The Lady Has Plans (1942)

Night in New Orleans (1942)

My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)

I Married a Witch (1942)

West Point Widow (1941)

New York Town (1941)

A Very Young Lady (1941)

Professor Starkweather

Appointment for Love (1941)

Bahama Passage (1941)

Captain Jack Risingwell

Night of January 16th (1941)

Oscar, the drunk

Burma Convoy (1941)

Small Town Deb (1941)

Mr. [Henry]] Randall

Birth of the Blues (1941)

Lady with Red Hair (1940)

The Letter (1940)

South of Suez (1940)

Brother Orchid (1940)

Brother Goodwin

Adventure in Diamonds (1940)

Phantom Raiders (1940)

Franklin Morris

Mexican Spitfire (1940)

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

The Mummy's Hand (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Inspector Sampson

Diamond Frontier (1940)

Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)

The Underpup (1939)

Gunga Din (1939)

We Are Not Alone (1939)

Wuthering Heights (1939)

Intermezzo, a Love Story (1939)

The Sun Never Sets (1939)

Colonel Official

Man About Town (1939)

Night Spot (1938)

Willard Lorryweather

Blond Cheat (1938)

Tarnished Angel (1938)

Reginald Roland

Double Danger (1938)

Fentriss, also known as Gilhooley

Everybody's Doing It (1938)

Maid's Night Out (1938)

This Marriage Business (1938)

Cast (Special)

Call Holme (1972)

Lord Basil Hyde-Smith

The Fabulous Sycamores (1955)

Grandpa Sycamore

Life Events

Photo Collections

Portrait of Jennie - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Portrait of Jennie (1949). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. Also included is a card from the 1950 release of the film, as Tidal Wave.

The Shaggy Dog - Pressbook

Here is the original campaign book (pressbook) for Disney's The Shaggy Dog (1959). Pressbooks were sent to exhibitors and theater owners to aid them in publicizing the film's run in their theater.

Videos

Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The -- (Movie Clip) The Meat Still Edible Shared billing on the office door introducing Prof. Elson (Cecil Kellaway) and assistant Lee (Paula Raymond) in paleontology, receiving nuclear scientist Nesbitt (Paul Christian), who thinks he saw a dinosaur, in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, 1953.

Phantom Raiders (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Thousand Bags Of Sand Joining the complex opening scene, in Panama, where master crook Taurez (Joseph Schildkraut) manipulates goon Gunboat (Nat Pendleton) framed shipping exec Morris (Cecil Kellaway), and would-be-hero undercover cop Steve (John Burton), in the MGM Nick Carter serial Phantom Raiders, 1940, starring Walter Pidgeon.

Portrait of Jennie (1949) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Take The Flower Gallery owners Mr. Matthews (Cecil Kellaway) and Miss Spinney (Ethel Barrymore) don't quite reject the works of starving artist Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten), the opening scene in Portrait of Jennie, 1949.

Harvey (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Dowd's My Name Opening director Henry Koster’s treatment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Mary Chase, James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, Josephine Hull his sister Veda, whom she also played on Broadway, Victoria Horne as the daughter Myrtle Mae, in Harvey, 1950.

Reformer And The Redhead, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Man Against Beast Opening from co-writers, directors and producers Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, fat cat Parker (Ray Collins) and daughter (Kathleen Freeman) pontificate while zoologist Kathleen (June Allyson) hurries to support her fired zoo director father (Cecil Kellaway), in The Reformer And The Redhead, 1950.

Reformer And The Redhead, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) What About Costello? Zookeeper Maguire (Cecil Kellaway), just fired by crooked politicians, and daughter Kathleen (June Allyson) have drafted inquisitive mayoral candidate Andrew (Dick Powell, Allyson's then-new husband) into emergency duty birthing goats, in the Norman Panama/Melvin Frank comedy The Reformer And The Redhead, 1950.

Harvey (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Did I Tell You He Could Stop Clocks? Sanitarium chief Chumley (Cecil Kellaway) is finally alone with eccentric Elwood Dowd (James Stewart), friend of the giant rabbit of the title, who has confounded his staff, and finds himself enlightened, a famous piece from the original play by Mary Chase, in Harvey, 1950.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) -- (Movie Clip) She Is Deranged Bette Davis (title character) realizing her cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) doesn't plan to help save her Louisiana plantation home, reveals the role she played in the murder of her married lover to old family friend Dr. Drew (Joseph Cotten), in Robert Aldrich's Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) -- (Movie Clip) He Really Isn't Here, Is He? Visiting cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland), whose motives are unclear, rescues fragile Bette Davis (title character), who thinks her lover John, whom most people think she butchered and killed, is around the house, with an unexplained twist, in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Ya Smirkin' Judas! Long-serving maid Velma (Agnes Moorehead) admits sheriff Standish (Wesley Addy) who hopes to convince maybe-demented presumed-murderess Bette Davis (title character) to vacate her Louisiana home, though she hopes for a rescue, in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

Proud Rebel, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) A Minister Could Give Thee Hope Alan Ladd is Chandler, title character, his Southern roots already established, with Ladd’s son David playing his son, visiting Doc Davis (Cecil Kellaway) in a post-Civil War Illinois town, as the main dilemma is revealed, in The Proud Rebel, 1958, co-starring Olivia de Havilland.

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He's Hooked Frank (John Garfield), newly hired at the roadhouse, narrating after an early rejection by Cora (Lana Turner), then making inroads with her husband, his boss, Nick (Cecil Kellaway), in The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946, from a James M. Cain novel.

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - (Original Trailer) Spencer Tracy's last film and last with Katharine Hepburn was this story of a liberal couple tested when their daughter brings home a black fiancee.

Family

Leon Kellaway

Brother

Dancer.

Jan Kowsky

Sister

Choreographer.

Bryan Kellaway

Son

Actor.

Bibliography

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