Born in Manchester to a Greek merchant father and a dress-making mother, he first took the stage in a Canadian stock company in 1908, later served as a lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment during World I, and after a gunshot injury studied and taught at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. A leading stage figure of the 1920s, he entered cinema with the 1931 British film about Dreyfus affair and… Read more
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Known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 After the Thin Man 1936 House of Frankenstein 1944 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939 ★ 7.3 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939
Procurator ★ 7.2 Captain from Castile 1947
Marquis De Carvajal ★ 7.1 The Secret Garden 1949
Dr. Fortescue ★ 6.9 The Barkleys of Broadway 1949
Judge ★ 6.9 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
Professor Moriarty ★ 6.9 The Cat and the Canary 1939
Lawyer Crosby ★ 6.8 Madame Bovary 1949
Dubocage ★ 6.8 The Seventh Cross 1944
Fahrenburg ★ 6.8 Sherlock Holmes in Washington 1943
Heinrich Hinckel aka Richard Stanley ★ 6.8 A Woman's Face 1941
Defense Attorney ★ 6.7 The Bride Wore Red 1937
Count Armalia ★ 6.6 Marie Antoinette 1938
Governor of Conciergerie (uncredited) ★ 6.5 The Pirate 1948
The Viceroy ★ 6.5 The Black Swan 1942
Lord Denby ★ 6.5 My Favorite Blonde 1942
Dr. Hugo Streger ★ 6.5 Topper Returns 1941
Dr. Jeris ★ 6.5 Arise, My Love 1940
Prison Governor ★ 6.5 Charlie Chan in Honolulu 1938
Dr. Cardigan ★ 6.5 Saratoga 1937
Dr. Bierd ★ 6.3 Lured 1947
H.R. Barrett ★ 6.2 Joan of Arc 1948
Constable of Clervaux ★ 6.1 House of Frankenstein 1944
Prof. Bruno Lampini ★ 6 Tarzan and the Mermaids 1948
Palanth, the High Priest ★ 6 The Man Who Could Work Miracles 1936
The Colonel's Butler ★ 5.9 The Mad Ghoul 1943
Dr. Alfred Morris ★ 5.8 David and Bathsheba 1951
Egyptian Ambassador (uncredited) ★ 5.7 The Monster and the Girl 1941
Dr. Parry ★ 5.5 Fog Island 1945
Leo Grainger ★ 5.5 Confidential Agent 1945
Detective Geddes ★ 5 Voodoo Man 1944
Nicholas ★ 4.6 Dead Men Walk 1943
Lloyd Clayton / Elwyn Clayton ★ 4.3 Scared to Death 1947
Dr. Josef Van Ee ★ 3.4 The Mad Monster 1942
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