Halliwell Hobbes
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor. His stage debut was in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats. Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid-1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing there until late 1955. By 1950 he had moved to American television in the diverse playhouse format.
Born: November 16, 1877
Place of Birth: Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Known For
To Be or Not to Be
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Waterloo Bridge
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Cardinal Richelieu
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Filmography
as Ely B. Windgate
as Nicholas Forsyte
as Martin
as Bishop of Tisbury
as The Coroner
as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
as Clenchfield
as Charles, the Butler
as Cleghorn, the butler
as Soames (uncredited)
as Mr. Muffin
as Willebrandt
as Alfred Brunton, the butler
as Doctor
as Mr. Barrie
as Walton the Butler
as Bennett
as Gen. Armstrong
as Sisk
as Johnson
as Rev. Nelson
as Divorce Judge (uncredited)
as Burton
as Astronomer
as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
as Lord Chancellor
as Doctor
as Butler Williams
as British Chaplain
as Dean Burton, Winfield College
as Dr. Lovelake
as Dobbs
as Captain Mathews
as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
as Sir John Galt
as Butler
as Mr. DePinna
as Dominie Campbell
as Prof. Bernard Goodman
as John, Butler
as Dean Meredith
as Count Strunsky
as W.H. Smith
as Archbishop
as Jeremiah
as Hotchkiss
as Oliver Warren
as Man (uncredited)
as Beuhl - the Butler
as Lord Raglan
as Cambaceres
as Hawkins
as Dr. Lister
as Professor Howard
as Lord Sunderland (uncredited)
as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
as Ernest Whiteoaks
as Father Joseph
as Father of Little Girl
as Monsieur Paulet
as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
as Sir Leopold Fischer
as Skinner
as Official
as Sir Walter Carrister
as George Dane
as First Bobby
as General C.O. Furlong
as Mr. Chase
as Bollard
as Col. Dawson Ames
as Dr. Lorenzo
as Burford-Gordon's butler
as Louis
as Butler
as Brock
as British Major General
as Churchill
as Malcolm Dearing
as Mr. James Felton
as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
as A Prospective Tenant
as Baron Emil von Sturm
as Martin
as Hilton
as Lord Litchfield
as Kibbee
as Phillips
as Mr. Smith
as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
as Smythe
as Roget
as Barton the Butler
as Hopkins (uncredited)
as Sir James (uncredited)
as Larkin
as Stephen Spettigue
as The Siegneur
as Lord St. Arran
as Ruddick
as Rigaud