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Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor. His stage debut was in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats.
Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid-1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing there until late 1955. By 1950 he had moved to American television in the diverse playhouse format.
Movies
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
Dracula's Daughter
Police Sgt. Hawkins
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
Platinum Blonde
Smythe
You Can't Take It with You
Mr. DePinna
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Cleghorn, the butler
The Undying Monster
Walton the Butler
Payment Deferred
A Prospective Tenant
The Prince and the Pauper
Archbishop
Lady for a Day
Butler
That Forsyte Woman
Nicholas Forsyte
Canyon Passage
Clenchfield
That Hamilton Woman
Rev. Nelson
Love Affair
Kibbee
The Right to Live
Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Sisk
Third Finger, Left Hand
Burton
Midnight Mary
Churchill
The Key
General C.O. Furlong
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Dr. Lister
Tell No Tales
Dr. Lovelake
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Prof. Bernard Goodman
The Earl of Chicago
Lord Chancellor
British Agent
Sir Walter Carrister
Varsity Show
Dean Meredith
Cynara
Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
Captured!
British Major General
Hearts Divided
Cambaceres
Grumpy
Ruddick
The Light That Failed
Doctor
The Menace
Phillips
The Woman Between
Barton - the Butler
Remember?
Butler Williams
The Right of Way
The Siegneur
Fit for a King
Count Strunsky
The Bachelor Father
Larkin
The Masquerader
Brock
Father Brown, Detective
Sir Leopold Fischer
Service de Luxe
Butler
Casanova Brown
Charles, the Butler
If Winter Comes
The Coroner
Forever and a Day
Doctor
Mandalay
Col. Dawson Ames
Scotland Yard
Lord St. Arran
6 Hours to Live
Baron Emil von Sturm
I Am Suzanne!
Dr. Lorenzo
Should Ladies Behave
Louis
Lovers Courageous
Mr. Smith
Looking Forward
Mr. James Felton
Cardinal Richelieu
Father Joseph
Folies Bergère
Monsieur Paulet
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Purdy
Mary of Scotland
Man (uncredited)
Charley's Aunt
Stephen Spettigue
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Roget
Spendthrift
Beuhl - the Butler
Give Me Your Heart
Oliver Warren
Gaslight
Mr. Muffin
Naughty But Nice
Dean Burton, Winfield College
Nurse Edith Cavell
British Chaplain
The White Angel
Lord Raglan
Pacific Liner
Captain Mathews
Menace
Skinner
The Hardys Ride High
Dobbs
Jalna
Ernest Whiteoaks
Kidnapped
Dominie Campbell
Maid of Salem
Jeremiah
Here Comes Trouble
Professor Howard
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Bennett
The Black Arrow
Bishop of Tisbury
Man About Town
Hilton
Week Ends Only
Martin
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Alfred Brunton, the butler
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Father of Little Girl
The Sea Hawk
Astronomer
Waterloo Bridge
Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
Lady with Red Hair
Divorce Judge (uncredited)
Journey for Margaret
Mr. Barrie
Mr. Skeffington
Soames (uncredited)
Storm Over Bengal
Sir John Galt
If I Were Free
Burford-Gordon's butler
Changing of the Guard
Grandfather, the Colonel
Miracle in the Rain
Ely B. Windgate
Lucky In Love
A Christmas Carol
Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
Captain Blood
Lord Sunderland (uncredited)
To Be or Not to Be
Gen. Armstrong
Double Door
Mr. Chase
Riptide
Bollard
Love Letters of a Star
Hotchkiss
His Butler's Sister
Willebrandt
The Jury's Secret
John, Butler
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
First Bobby
You Gotta Stay Happy
Martin
Hollywood Wonderland
Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
A Study in Scarlet
Malcolm Dearing
Information Please
Lt Eberhard
Jealousy
Rigaud
She Was a Lady
George Dane
Devil's Lottery
Lord Litchfield
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Sunny
Johnson
Five and Ten
Hopkins (uncredited)
We Live Again
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