Emerging from a South African birth and a Derbyshire upbringing, he trained as a Shakespearean stage actor with Sir Frank Benson’s company before moving to film. Over a career spanning more than seventy pictures, he became known for costume dramas, swashbucklers and occasional horror, delivering memorable performances as Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935), Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936)… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for The Great Mouse Detective 1986 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 1949 Son of Frankenstein 1939 ★ 7.2 The Last Hurrah 1958
Norman Cass Sr. ★ 7.2 The Mark of Zorro 1940
Captain Esteban Pasquale ★ 7.1 The Pearl of Death 1944
Sherlock Holmes ★ 7.1 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939
Sherlock Holmes ★ 7 The Scarlet Claw 1944
Sherlock Holmes ★ 7 The Spider Woman 1943
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.9 The House of Fear 1945
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.9 Pursuit to Algiers 1945
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.9 Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 1943
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.9 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.9 A Tale of Two Cities 1935
Marquis St. Evremonde ★ 6.8 The Wind in the Willows 1949
Narrator (voice) ★ 6.8 Sherlock Holmes in Washington 1943
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.8 The Dawn Patrol 1938
Maj. Brand ★ 6.7 Tales of Terror 1962
Carmichael ("The Case of M. Valdemar") ★ 6.7 Dressed to Kill 1946
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.7 David Copperfield 1935
Mr. Edward Murdstone ★ 6.6 Terror by Night 1946
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.6 Anna Karenina 1935
Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin ★ 6.5 The Comedy of Terrors 1964
John F. Black ★ 6.5 The Woman in Green 1945
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.5 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 1942
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.4 Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 1942
Sherlock Holmes ★ 6.4 The Black Cat 1941
Montague Hartley ★ 6.3 Romeo and Juliet 1936
Tybalt ★ 6.2 Madhouse 1974
Basil (archive footage) ★ 6.2 The Black Sleep 1956
Sir Joel Cadman ★ 6.2 Above Suspicion 1943
Sig von Aschenhausen ★ 6.2 Tower of London 1939
Richard - Duke of Gloucester ★ 6 The Garden of Allah 1936
Count Ferdinand Anteoni ★ 5.9 Bathing Beauty 1944
George Adams ★ 5.9 Crossroads 1942
Henri Sarrou ★ 5.8 Frenchman's Creek 1944
Lord Rockingham ★ 5.8 The Last Days of Pompeii 1935
Pontius Pilate ★ 5.6 Sin Takes a Holiday 1930
Reginald 'Reggie' Durant ★ 5.2 Queen of Blood 1966
Dr. Farraday ★ 5.1 The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini 1966
Reginald Ripper ★ 4.3 The Magic Sword 1962
Lodac ★ 4.1 Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet 1965
Prof. Hartman, Lunar 7 ★ 2.8 Hillbillys in a Haunted House 1967
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