Alan Mowbray

Infobox actor
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name = Alan Mowbray

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imagesize = 250px
caption = from the trailer for "Topper Takes a Trip" (1939)
birthdate = birth date|1896|8|18|mf=y
location = London, England
deathdate = death date and age|1969|3|25|1896|8|18|mf=y
deathplace = Hollywood, California, U.S.
birthname =Alfred Ernest Allen

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, reaching the rank of major and 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 memorable butler role in the brilliant 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 other 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.

Alan Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

elected filmography

*"God's Gift to Women" (1931)
*"Alexander Hamilton" (1931)
*"Honor of the Family" (1931)
*"The Man from Yesterday" (1932)
*"Winner Take All" (1932)
*"A Study in Scarlet" (1933)
*"Peg o' My Heart" (1933)
*"The Midnight Club" (1933)
*"Voltaire" (1933)
*"Berkeley Square" (1933)
*"Roman Scandals" (1933)
*"The House of Rothschild" (1934)
*"The Girl from Missouri" (1934)
*"Charlie Chan in London" (1934)
*"Becky Sharp" (1935)
*"She Couldn't Take It" (1935)
*"Rose-Marie" (1936)
*"Desire" (1936)
*"Mary of Scotland (1936)
*"My Man Godfrey" (1936)
*"Ladies in Love" (1936)
*"On the Avenue" (1937)
*"Topper" (1937)
*"Stand-In" (1937)
*"Merrily We Live" (1938)
*"Topper Takes a Trip" (1939)
*"Music in My Heart" (1940)
*"That Hamilton Woman" (1941)
*"That Uncertain Feeling" (1941)
*"I Wake Up Screaming" (1941)
*"The Devil with Hitler" (1942)
*"Slightly Dangerous" (1943)
*"Holy Matrimony" (1943)
*"Terror by Night" (1946)
*"My Darling Clementine" (1946)
*"Lured" (1947)
*"Captain from Castile" (1947)
*"Every Girl Should Be Married" (1948)
*"Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff" (1949)
*"Wagon Master" (1950)
*"The Jackpot" (1950)
*"Blackbeard the Pirate" (1952)
*"Androcles and the Lion" (1952)
*"Once Upon a Honeymoon" (1956) (short)
*"The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956)
*"The King and I" (1956)
*"Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956)
*"A Majority of One" (1962)

External links

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* [http://www.dougmacaulay.com/kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_2.php?actor_first=Alan&actor_last=Mowbray Alan Mowbray at Great Character Actors]
* [http://epguides.com/ColonelFlack/ "The Adventures of Colonel Flack"]

Persondata
NAME= Mowbray, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Allen, Alfred Ernest
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= 1896-8-18
PLACE OF BIRTH= London, England
DATE OF DEATH= 1969-3-25
PLACE OF DEATH= Hollywood, California, U.S.