Cecil Kellaway
Gender: Male
Born: 22nd August 1890
Died: 28th February 1973
Nationality: South Africa
TV programs: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Movies: Interrupted Melody, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Ain't Hay, Love Letters, Intermezzo, I Married a Witch, Kim, Female on the Beach, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Francis Goes to the Races, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mr. Chedworth Steps Out, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Portrait of Jennie, Wuthering Heights, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, Blond Cheat, The Reformer and the Redhead, The Cockeyed Miracle, The Mummy's Hand, I Married a Witch, Monsieur Beaucaire, The Letter, The Cardinal, Getting Straight, Easy to Wed, Harvey, Joan of Arc, The Invisible Woman, My Favorite Blonde, Francis of Assisi, The Shaggy Dog, The Cowboy Creed, Unconquered, Brother Orchid, The Prodigal, Thunder in the East, Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill, It Isn't Done, The Hayseeds, Tammy Tell Me True, Phantom Raiders, Everybody's Doing It, Night Spot, Tarnished Angel, This Marriage Business, Double Danger
Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African-born character actor.
Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author, and director in the Australian film industry until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding he could get only gangster bit parts, he got discouraged and returned to Australia. Then William Wyler called and offered him a part in Wuthering Heights (1939). After that he was seen in such films as The House of the Seven Gables (1940), The Letter (1940), Love Letters (1945), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, as Lana Turner's husband), Portrait of Jennie (1948) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
Kellaway died 28 February 1973 in Hollywood, California, and his ashes were entombed in the Sanctuary of Remembrance, at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations, for The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Academy Award winning actor Edmund Gwenn, whose real surname was Kellaway, was his cousin.
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