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Alan Mowbray
London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Mowbray MM, (18 August 1896 - 25 March 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest A…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 television season Mowbray played Mr. Swift, the drama coach of the character Mickey Mulligan, in NBC's short-lived situation comedy The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan. Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Mowbray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1993
Broken Highway
Movie Armorer
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1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie (archive footage)
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1967
The Flying Nun
TV show Father Duffy
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1965
Mister Roberts
TV show
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1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show Harry Blackburn
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1963
Petticoat Junction
TV show Lucius J. Penrose
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Butterfield
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1963
The Patty Duke Show
TV show
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show Montrose
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1961
A Majority of One
Movie Captain Norcross
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1961
The Investigators
TV show Cranshaw
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1960
Dante
TV show Stewart Styles
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1959
Startime
TV show King Arthur
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1959
Fibber McGee & Molly
TV show
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1958
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
TV show Carlson
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1957
Maverick
TV show Luke Abigor
More credits
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1957
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV show Self
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1957
Meet McGraw
TV show Osgood
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1957
Blondie
TV show Jack Bell
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1956
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie British Consul
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1956
The Gale Storm Show
TV show Hadley Dexter
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1956
The King and I
Movie John Hay
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1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Movie Val Parnell
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1956
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Movie Gordon
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1955
Matinee Theater
TV show
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1955
The King's Thief
Movie Sir Gilbert Talbot
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1955
The Bob Cummings Show
TV show Hawthorne
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1954
The Steel Cage
Movie Lee Filbert, segment "The Chef"
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1954
Social Lion
Movie Narrator
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1954
Hey Mulligan
TV show Jonathan Swift, Drama Instructor
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1954
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
Movie Alphonsus Mannering
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1953
Colonel Humphrey Flack
TV show
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1953
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
TV show
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1953
The Life Of Riley
TV show Uncle Baxter
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1952
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Movie Noll
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1952
Androcles and the Lion
Movie Editor of Gladiators
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1952
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV show Orville
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1952
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV show
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1952
The Ford Television Theatre
TV show
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1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV show Jackson
