Alan Mowbray
Gender: Male
Born: 18th August 1896
Died: 25th March 1969
Nationality: United Kingdom, United States of America
TV programs: Colonel Humphrey Flack, Dante, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan
Movies: Honor of the Family, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Midnight Club, Terror by Night, God's Gift to Women, Voltaire, Lured, The Phantom of 42nd Street, Way Down South, That Hamilton Woman, Merrily We Live, The Phantom President, In Person, Holy Matrimony, My Man Godfrey, Never Say Die, Our Betters, Peg o' My Heart, Music in My Heart, Captain from Castile, Charlie Chan in London, Mary of Scotland, I Wake Up Screaming, Wagon Master, So This Is Washington, Isle of Missing Men, Phantoms of Death Triple Feature, Blackbeard the Pirate, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes, The Devil with Hitler, Desire, The Prince of Thieves, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Real Sherlock Holmes, On the Avenue, That Uncertain Feeling, My Darling Clementine, Hollywood Hotel, Becky Sharp, The Villain Still Pursued Her, The Llano Kid, Tell It to a Star, Crosswinds, Vogues of 1938, The King and I, A Majority of One, Guilty Hands, The Man in Possession, Lovers Courageous, Rose-Marie, We Were Dancing, Merton of the Movies, Where Sinners Meet, Muss 'em Up, Music for Madame
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
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