Alan Mowbray

Actor

About

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

August 18, 1896

Died

March 25, 1969

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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After serving in the British army during World War I, Alan Mowbray took to stage acting in his native England. Soon afterward, he moved to the United States, where he toured with the Theater Guild and later made his debut on Broadway. With the advent of the "talkies," Mowbray began to land work in Hollywood, often cast as an upper-class gentleman, aristocrat, or royalty. His first credit...

Filmography

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Forever Amber (1947)

Dialogue Director

A Majority of One (1962)

Captain Norcross

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The King and I (1956)

British ambassador

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

British consul in Suez

The King's Thief (1955)

Sir Gilbert Talbot

Photos & Videos

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That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) My Dear Captain

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Such Godlike Simplicity

Family & Companions

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Lorayne Carpeter

Wife

Actor. Survived him.

Biography

After serving in the British army during World War I, Alan Mowbray took to stage acting in his native England. Soon afterward, he moved to the United States, where he toured with the Theater Guild and later made his debut on Broadway. With the advent of the "talkies," Mowbray began to land work in Hollywood, often cast as an upper-class gentleman, aristocrat, or royalty. His first credited role was 1931's "God's Gift to Women," but he quickly followed it up with a number of pictures that same year, including an acclaimed turn as George Washington in "Alexander Hamilton." Mowbray also starred in the first movie made in three-strip Technicolor with 1935's "Becky Sharp." He acted in a myriad of films up through the 1950s, including three Sherlock Holmes movies, two John Ford pictures ("My Darling Clementine" and "Wagon Master"), and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "The Man Who Knew Too Much." He also appeared on television as the lead in 1953's "Colonel Humphrey Flack." In addition to his many roles as an actor, Mowbray is also remembered for funding the early days of the Screen Actors Guild when it was first founded in 1933. The actor began appearing primarily in television roles in the 1950s, and would continue this trend through the following decade.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Forever Amber (1947)

Dialogue Director

Cast (Feature Film)

A Majority of One (1962)

Captain Norcross

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The King and I (1956)

British ambassador

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

British consul in Suez

The King's Thief (1955)

Sir Gilbert Talbot

The Steel Cage (1954)

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)

Androcles and the Lion (1953)

Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

Just Across the Street (1952)

Crosswinds (1951)

Sir Cecil Daubrey

The Lady and the Bandit (1951)

Lord Willoughby

Wagon Master (1950)

Dr. A. Locksley Hall

The Jackpot (1950)

You're My Everything (1949)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer: Boris Karloff (1949)

The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949)

The Lovable Cheat (1949)

Captain from Castile (1948)

My Dear Secretary (1948)

Detective Debanny

An Innocent Affair (1948)

The Main Street Kid (1948)

"The Great Martine"

The Prince of Thieves (1948)

Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

The Pilgrim Lady (1947)

Clifford Latimer

Merton of the Movies (1947)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Terror by Night (1946)

Major Duncan-Bleek, also known as Col. Sebastian Moran

Idea Girl (1946)

Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night (To Be Deleted) (1946)

Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)

General George Washington

Men in Her Diary (1945)

Douglas Crane [also known as Icabad Smaltze]

Bring on the Girls (1945)

Tell It to a Star (1945)

"Colonel" Ambrose Morgan

The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)

Sunbonnet Sue (1945)

Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)

Grand Duke Paul

The Doughgirls (1944)

Breckenridge Drake

Ever Since Venus (1944)

J. Webster Hackett

My Gal Loves Music (1944)

Rodney [P.] Spoonyer

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

English gentleman

The Powers Girl (1943)

John Robert Powers

Holy Matrimony (1943)

His Butler's Sister (1943)

So This Is Washington (1943)

Chester Marshall

A Yank at Eton (1942)

We Were Dancing (1942)

Grand Duke Basil

Panama Hattie (1942)

The Devil with Hitler (1942)

The Devil [also known as Gesatan]

The Mad Martindales (1942)

Hugo Martindale

Isle of Missing Men (1942)

Yokel Boy (1942)

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

The Perfect Snob (1941)

Freddie Browning

Footlight Fever (1941)

The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941)

Phineas Johnson

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Sir William Hamilton

Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941)

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Ice-Capades (1941)

The Boys from Syracuse (1940)

The Quarterback (1940)

Professor Hobbs

Curtain Call (1940)

Scatterbrain (1940)

The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

Music in My Heart (1940)

Charles Gardner

Never Say Die (1939)

Way Down South (1939)

The Llano Kid (1939)

Topper Takes a Trip (1939)

There Goes My Heart (1938)

Pennypepper E. Pennypepper

Hollywood Hotel (1938)

Alexander Dupre

Four Days' Wonder (1937)

Archibald Fenton

The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)

Stand-In (1937)

Marry the Girl (1937)

On the Avenue (1937)

On Such a Night (1937)

Prof. Richard Candle

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)

Music for Madame (1937)

[Leon] Rodowsky

As Good As Married (1937)

"Wally" Burnside

Give Us This Night (1936)

Mary of Scotland (1936)

Ladies in Love (1936)

Dr. Edouard [Maurice] Pauquet

My Man Godfrey (1936)

The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)

Lawrence Waterson

Rose-Marie (1936)

Fatal Lady (1936)

Muss 'Em Up (1936)

Rainbow on the River (1936)

Lady Tubbs (1935)

Elyot Wembsleigh

She Couldn't Take It (1935)

Ham [Alan Hamlin]

Becky Sharp (1935)

Night Life of the Gods (1935)

In Person (1935)

The Gay Deception (1935)

Long Lost Father (1934)

Sir Tony Gelding

Charlie Chan in London (1934)

Geoffrey Richmond

Little Man, What Now? (1934)

Franz Schlüter

One More River (1934)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

The Girl from Missouri (1934)

Embarrassing Moments (1934)

Where Sinners Meet (1934)

Cheaters (1934)

[Paul] Southern

The World Changes (1933)

Sir Phillip Ivor

Our Betters (1933)

Lord George Grayston

Berkeley Square (1933)

Roman Scandals (1933)

Peg O' My Heart (1933)

[Captain Christopher] Brent

Midnight Club (1933)

A Study in Scarlet (1933)

Her Secret (1933)

Voltaire (1933)

Count de Sarnac

Man About Town (1932)

Lovers Courageous (1932)

[Gerald] Lamone

The Phantom President (1932)

George Washington

The Silent Witness (1932)

Arthur Drinton, K.C.

Two Against the World (1932)

Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Colonel Gore-King

The Man Called Back (1932)

Winner Take All (1932)

The Man from Yesterday (1932)

Jewel Robbery (1932)

Detective Fritz

Hotel Continental (1932)

Walter Underwood

The World and the Flesh (1932)

Dmitri [Rostoff]

Leftover Ladies (1931)

Jerry [Reynolds]

Alexander Hamilton (1931)

George Washington

Guilty Hands (1931)

The Man in Possession (1931)

Sir Charles Cartwright

God's Gift to Women (1931)

Honor of the Family (1931)

Nice Women (1931)

Cast (Special)

Tennessee Ernie Ford Meets King Arthur (1960)

Cast (Short)

The Big Irons (1931)

Life Events

Photo Collections

My Man Godfrey - Lobby Cards

Here are a few Lobby Cards from My Man Godfrey (1936). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

The Boys from Syracuse - Title Lobby Card

Here is the Title Lobby Card from Universal's The Boys from Syracuse (1940). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) My Dear Captain Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh) thriving as the wife of Sir William (Alan Mowbray), the British ambassador to Naples, grapples with a social problem and meets young Captain Nelson (Laurence Olivier) for the first time, in Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman, 1941.

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Such Godlike Simplicity The flashback begins, introducing Sir William Hamilton (Alan Mowbray), the British ambassador to Naples, and a dazzling double entrance, first by portrait, of young Emma (Vivien Leigh), accompanied by her mother (Sara Allgood), in Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman, 1941, also starring Laurence Olivier.

That Hamilton Woman (1941) -- (Movie Clip) My Only Idea Of Happiness Still giddy over her social achievements (and reflecting on her disreputable former fiancè) Emma (now-Lady) Hamilton (Vivien Leigh) is awakened in her Naples bedroom, with her excited mother (Sara Allgood) and her fussy ambassador husband (Alan Mowbray) as the leading man (Laurence Olivier, Leigh’s husband, as Captain Nelson) is introduced, in Alexander Korda’s That Hamilton Woman, 1941.

Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Blue World Star Tony Martin as singer Bob, with an Academy Award-nominated Bob Wright-Chet Forrest tune, which charted for 14 weeks, has won a radio gig, and we cut away to listener Rita Hayworth, who’s back with her millionaire boyfriend (Alan Mowbray), because she thinks Tony deceived her, which we’ll soon learn he hasn’t, near the end of Columbia’s Music In My Heart, 1940.

Wagon Master (1950) -- (Movie Clip) They Was Invited Out The Mormon wagon train led by Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) finds common cause with the members of a bereft medicine show (Joanne Dru, Alan Mowbray, Ruth Clifford), Travis (Ben Johnson) and Sister Ledyard (Jane Darwell) adding opinions, in John Ford's Wagon Master, 1950.

Berkeley Square (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Age Of Speed And Invention Prologue and opening scene, Leslie Howard as American Peter Standish (a role he played on stage in London and on Broadway), traveling in 1784 England with Major Clinton (Alan Mowbray), learning of the first balloon crossing of the English Channel, from Berkeley Square, 1933.

Panama Hattie (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Dip Her In The Canal! Title character Ann Sothern with pal Flo (Virginia O’Brien) plans to impress “Gerry” (Jackie Horner), the snooty young visiting daughter of her Canal Zone-based soldier fiancè Dick (Dan Dailey), who’s brought butler Jerkins (Alan Mowbray) from Philadelphia, in MGM’s Panama Hattie, 1942.

That Uncertain Feeling -- (Movie Clip) Masters Of The World From Ernst Lubitsch's prologue, to the ladies lounge to meet Jill (Merle Oberon) and friends (Eve Arden, Olive Blakeney), then to the shrink, Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray), opening That Uncertain Feeling, 1941, also staring Melvyn Douglas and Burgess Meredith.

Way Down South (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Bayou Lovelle Credits notable for their content, co-star Clarence Muse and poet Langston Hughes sharing original screenplay credit, framing scenes at the plantation then Muse, his owner Ralph Morgan, and Edwin Maxwell with exposition, in producer Sol Lesser's musical one-off Way Down South, 1939.

Guilty Hands (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Carried Away By Some Girl Having just announced their surprise engagement, affluent host Gordon (Alan Mowbray) with Barbara (Madge Evans), daughter of his sagacious and lawyer Grant (Lionel Barrymore), the insulted mistress Marjorie (Kay Francis) playing harp and expressing displeasure, in Guilty Hands, 1931.

Stand-In (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Genius Of Colossal Exposition at the Hollywood studio where the star (Leslie Howard) is about to take over, C. Henry Gordon the scheming executive, Humphrey Bogart the beleaguered producer, Marla Shelton the fading star, Alan Mowbray her director, in early in Stand-In, 1937.

My Man Godfrey -- (Movie Clip) Never Thought Of That Irene (Carole Lombard) drops in on Godfrey (William Powell) and springs her latest plan for their future in director Gregory La Cava's My Man Godfrey, 1936.

Companions

Lorayne Carpeter

Wife

Actor. Survived him.

Bibliography

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