Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 17, 1896
Died
Mar 25, 1969
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
177 titles
Alan Mowbray
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Broken Highway
Armorer
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
The Flying Nun
Father Duffy
Mister Roberts
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Harry Blackburn
Petticoat Junction
Lucius J. Penrose
Burke's Law
Butterfield
The Patty Duke Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
Montrose
A Majority of One
Captain Norcross
The Investigators
Cranshaw
Dante
Stewart Styles
Startime
King Arthur
Fibber McGee & Molly
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Carlson
Maverick
Luke Abigor
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
Meet McGraw
Osgood
Blondie
Jack Bell
Around the World in 80 Days
British Consul
The Gale Storm Show
Hadley Dexter
The King and I
John Hay
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Val Parnell
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Gordon
Matinee Theater
The King's Thief
Sir Gilbert Talbot
The Bob Cummings Show
Hawthorne
The Steel Cage
Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
Social Lion
Narrator
Hey Mulligan
Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Alphonsus Mannering
Colonel Humphrey Flack
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
The Life Of Riley
Uncle Baxter
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Noll
Androcles and the Lion
Editor of Gladiators
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Orville
Mr. & Mrs. North
The Ford Television Theatre
Four Star Playhouse
Albert
Just Across the Street
Davis
Chevron Theatre
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Mayor Perkins
Crosswinds
The Hon Cecil Daubrey
The Red Skelton Show
Explorer Radccliffe
The Lady and the Bandit
Lord Charles Willoughby
The Jackpot
Leslie
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Professor Bradford
Lux Video Theatre
Carter
Wagon Master
Dr. A. Locksley Hall