Cecil Kellaway

Infobox actor
name = Cecil Kellaway

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caption = from the trailer for the film
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946)
imagesize = 240px
birthdate = August 22, 1893
location = Cape Town, South Africa
deathdate = February 28, 1973, age 79
deathplace = Hollywood, California, USA

Cecil Kellaway (August 22, 1893 – February 28, 1973), born in Cape Town, South Africa, was an Academy Award-nominated 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). From then on Kellaway was always in demand when the part called for a twinkling, silver-haired leprechaun.

Kellaway died in 1973, in Hollywood, California at the age of 79, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations, for "The Luck of the Irish" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner".

Edmund Gwenn and Arthur Chesney, brothers whose real name was Kellaway, were his cousins.

elected filmography

* "Wuthering Heights" (1939) – as Earnshaw
* "Intermezzo" (1939) – as Charles Moler
* "We Are Not Alone" (1939)
* "The Invisible Man Returns" (1940) – as Inspector Sampson
* "The House of the Seven Gables" (1940)
* "Brother Orchid" (1940)
* "The Mummy's Hand" (1940)
* "The Letter" (1940)
* "A Very Young Lady" (1941)
* "I Married a Witch" (1942)
* "It Ain't Hay" (1943)
* "Mrs. Parkington" (1944)
* "Practically Yours" (1944)
* "Love Letters" (1945)
* "Kitty" (1945) as Thomas Gainsborough
* "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) – as Nick Smith
* "Unconquered" (1947)
* "The Luck of the Irish" (1948) – as Horace
* "Joan of Arc" (1948)
* "Portrait of Jennie" (1948)
* "Harvey" (1950) – as Dr. Chumley
* "Kim" (1950)
* "Francis Goes to the Races" (1951)
* "Young Bess" (1953)
* "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953) – as Dr. Thurgood Elson
* "Interrupted Melody" (1955)
* "The Prodigal" (1955)
* "Female on the Beach" (1955) – as Osbert Sorenson
* "The Shaggy Dog" (1959)
* "Zotz!" (1962)
* "The Cardinal" (1963)
* "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964)
* "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) – as Monsignor Ryan
* "Fitzwilly" (1967)

External links

*imdb name|0445523
*ibdb name|101378

Persondata
NAME= Kellaway, Cecil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= August 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH= Cape Town, South Africa
DATE OF DEATH= February 28, 1973, age 79
PLACE OF DEATH= Hollywood, California, USA