Douglass Dumbrille

Actor

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Also Known As

Douglas R. Dumbrille, Douglas Dumbrille

Birth Place

Hamilton, Ontario, CA

Born

October 13, 1889

Died

April 02, 1974

Filmography

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Shock Treatment (1964)

Johnny Cool (1963)

Air Patrol (1962)

High Time (1960)

The Buccaneer (1959)

Collector of the port

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Photos & Videos

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Hi, Nellie! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Polish Children's Picnic Yarn

Uncertain Glory (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Barber Will Shave Your Neck

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Patricia Mowbray

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Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Shock Treatment (1964)

Johnny Cool (1963)

Air Patrol (1962)

High Time (1960)

The Buccaneer (1959)

Collector of the port

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956)

Eustace Fentwick III

Jupiter's Darling (1955)

A Life at Stake (1955)

Augustus A. Hillman

The Lawless Rider (1954)

World for Ransom (1954)

Inspector McCollum

Julius Caesar (1953)

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)

Plunder of the Sun (1953)

Carter, U.S. Consulate official

Son of Paleface (1952)

Sheriff McIntyre

Sky Full of Moon (1952)

Scaramouche (1952)

President of the Assembly

Apache War Smoke (1952)

The Kangaroo Kid (1951)

Vincent Moller, also known as Spengler

A Millionaire for Christy (1951)

Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)

Hamud El Khalid

The Savage Horde (1950)

Riding High (1950)

Buccaneer's Girl (1950)

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949)

Tell It to the Judge (1949)

Dynamite (1949)

Foreman Hank Gibbons

The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949)

John J. Murdock

Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)

Last of the Wild Horses (1948)

The Fabulous Texan (1947)

Blonde Savage (1947)

Christmas Eve (1947)

Dishonored Lady (1947)

District Attorney

It's a Joke, Son! (1947)

Frank Farrington

Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

George Washington

Spook Busters (1946)

The Catman of Paris (1946)

Road to Utopia (1946)

Under Nevada Skies (1946)

Arthur Courtney

The Cat Creeps (1946)

A Night in Paradise (1946)

A Medal for Benny (1945)

The Daltons Ride Again (1945)

Pardon My Past (1945)

The Frozen Ghost (1945)

Inspector Brant

Flame of the West (1945)

Tom Nightlander

Jungle Woman (1944)

District Attorney

Gypsy Wildcat (1944)

Lost in a Harem (1944)

Forty Thieves (1944)

Lumberjack (1944)

Uncertain Glory (1944)

Police commissioner

Stand by for Action (1943)

Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Willie/Duc de Rigor

False Colors (1943)

Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

Gen. William Henry Harrison

A Gentleman After Dark (1942)

I Married an Angel (1942)

Castle in the Desert (1942)

[Paul] Manderley

King of the Mounties (1942)

Washington Melodrama (1941)

[District Attorney] Donnelly

The Big Store (1941)

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)

Road to Zanzibar (1941)

The Round Up (1941)

Murder Among Friends (1941)

Carter Stevenson

Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1941)

Virginia City (1940)

South of Pago Pago (1940)

Captain Fury (1939)

Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939)

Thunder Afloat (1939)

District commander

Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1939)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

[Stewart Salzbury, alias] Thomas Gregory

Slightly Honorable (1939)

City in Darkness (1939)

Tell No Tales (1939)

The Buccaneer (1938)

Governor Claiborne

Stolen Heaven (1938)

Sharpshooters (1938)

Fast Company (1938)

Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)

Storm over Bengal (1938)

Kentucky (1938)

John Dillon, 1861

The Mysterious Rider (1938)

Pecos Bill/Ben Wade [also known as "Red"]

Woman in Distress (1937)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

The Firefly (1937)

Marquis de Melito

A Day at the Races (1937)

The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

The Witness Chair (1936)

Stanley Whittaker

Princess Comes Across (1936)

[Paul Musko, also known as Detective] Lorel

Counterfeit Lady (1936)

End of the Trail (1936)

The Music Goes 'Round (1936)

You May Be Next! (1936)

The Lone Wolf Returns (1935)

Crime and Punishment (1935)

Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Colonel Forsythe

Cardinal Richelieu (1935)

The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)

The Public Menace (1935)

Air Hawks (1935)

[Victor] Arnold

Unknown Woman (1935)

Love Me Forever (1935)

Naughty Marietta (1935)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Massacre (1934)

Operator 13 (1934)

General Stewart

Treasure Island (1934)

Stamboul Quest (1934)

Broadway Bill (1934)

Journal of a Crime (1934)

[Germaine] Cartier

Hi Nellie! (1934)

The Secret Bride (1934)

Fog over Frisco (1934)

Mayard [alias of Arthur Burchard]

Harold Teen (1934)

The Silk Express (1933)

Elmer the Great (1933)

Hard to Handle (1933)

District Attorney

The Big Brain (1933)

Smoke Lightning (1933)

Heroes for Sale (1933)

The Way to Love (1933)

Agent Chapusard

The World Changes (1933)

The Man Who Dared: An Imaginative Biography (1933)

Convention City (1933)

Laughter in Hell (1933)

King of the Jungle (1933)

Rustlers' Roundup (1933)

Baby Face (1933)

Lady Killer (1933)

Spade [Maddock]

Voltaire (1933)

The Man Who Dared (1933)

Blondie of the Follies (1932)

That's My Boy (1932)

Coach Daisy Adams

The Pride of the Legion (1932)

The Wiser Sex (1932)

His Woman (1931)

Cast (Special)

The Life of Vernon Hathaway (1955)

Life Events

1924

First role on Broadway in "Macbeth"

Videos

Hi, Nellie! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Polish Children's Picnic Yarn First scene for Paul Muni in his first comedy, as big city news editor “Brad” Bradshaw, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with George Chandler, Donald Meek, Douglas Dumbrille (as “Dawes”), and Paul Kaye in support, the picnic story having nothing to do with the Bob Dylan song, written about a similar (but not fictional) event almost 30-years later, in Hi, Nellie!, 1934.

Uncertain Glory (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Barber Will Shave Your Neck After an opening establishing visibly atmospheric Nazi-occupied Paris, 1943, we meet Errol Flynn as inmate Jean Picard, not apparently political, rousted by the warden (Art Smith) who is congratulated by the commissioner (Douglas Dumbrille) and questioned one last time by policeman Bonet (Paul Lukas), in Raoul Walsh and Warner Bros.’ Uncertain Glory, 1944.

Firefly, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Salute The New King Crash, bang, boom, glory, the gung-ho opening from MGM and director Robert Z. Leonard, introducing only the supporting player Tom Rutherford as Spain’s new King Ferdinand VII, in Madrid, 1808, French occupiers observing, from The Firefly, 1937, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones.

Firefly, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Love Is Like A Firefly The second number but the first vocal for Jeanette MacDonald, Rudolf Friml’s tune and English lyric by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest, as Madrid entertainer Nina Maria, and we know she’s only flirting with Don Diego (Allan Jones) in order to shake an amorous French officer, in MGM’s The Firefly, 1937.

Firefly, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Donkey Serenade Seemingly carefree Spaniard Don Diego (Allan Jones) has pursued singer and secret spy Nina Maria (Jeanette MacDonald) en route to her mission in France, her disinterest cueing what would become Jones’ signature song (music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, lyric by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest), to the livestock, accompanied by driver Manuel Alvarez Maciste, in MGM’s The Firefly, 1937.

Day At The Races, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Proposed To Your Mother Horse doctor Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) enters as his rich patient Mrs. Upjohn (Margaret Dumont) is hoping to intervene on behalf of sanitarium owner Judy (Maureen O’Sullivan), who’s being railroaded by her business manager Whitmore (Leonard Ceeley), early in A Day At The Races, 1937.

Day At The Races, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Make It Lilies For Me Desperate to prevent business manager Whitmore (Leonard Ceeley) from finding out he’s a veterinarian, newly-installed sanitarium boss Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) stages an elaborate phone call, in the MGM Marx Brothers comedy A Day At The Races, 1937.

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Wonder Why He Left Me All That Money? Lawyers Cedar and Anderson (Douglas Dumbrille, Harry C. Bradley) and PR man Cobb (Lionel Stander) find Gary Cooper (title character, ) at his Vermont home, informing him of his giant inheritance, Frank Capra directing from Robert Riskin’s screenplay, in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Your Power Of Attorney Reporter Babe (Jean Arthur) is introduced as editor MacWade (George Bancroft) berates his staff, while the title character (Gary Cooper), adjusting to his inheritance, frustrates crooked lawyer Cedar (Douglas Dumbrille), who aims to formalize his status, in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Baby Face (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe I Could Use Her We know that Lily (Barbara Stanwyck) has been sleeping her way upward in the company but this is the first scene for John Wayne as Jimmy, and Douglas Dumbrille as his boss Brody, speedy progress, in Warner Bros.' Baby Face, 1933.

Day At The Races, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Told You To Throw That Race! Harpo Marx is introduced as mute jockey Stuffy, who recklessly wins a race he was supposed to throw, pursued by crooked banker Morgan (Douglas Dumbrille), aided by his horse owner pal (Allan Jones) and then race track hustler Tony (brother Chico), early in A Day At The Races, 1937.

Millionaire For Christy, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The Death Of Your Uncle Opening with Eleanor Parker as the title character, wearing her beaver coat in the wrong season, Una Merkel her office buddy, Ralph Peters the repo-man and Douglas Dumbrille her boss, in the late-screwball comedy A Millionaire For Christy, 1951, co-starring Fred MacMurray.

Companions

Patricia Mowbray

Companion

Bibliography

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