Alan Mowbray

Known for ActingBorn 1896-08-17Died 1969-03-25London, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Main Street Kid

Tell It to a Star

My Gal Loves Music

Ever Since Venus

Three Blonde Mice

The Quarterback

Fatal Lady

Cheaters

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Colonel Humphrey Flack

Men in Her Diary

Four Days Wonder

Embarrassing Moments

Her Secret

Midnight Club

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Rainbow on the River

Mister Roberts

Chevron Theatre

Idea Girl

French Fried Patootie

As Good as Married

Hotel Continental

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

Nice Women

The Ford Television Theatre

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Red Skelton Show

The Doughgirls

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The World and the Flesh

My Man Godfrey

The Mad Martindales

My Darling Clementine

Scatterbrain

Lady Tubbs

The Girl from Missouri

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

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Never Say Die

Captain from Castile

The King and I

His Butler's Sister

Curtain Call

There Goes My Heart

That Hamilton Woman

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

On the Avenue