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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 16, 1877
Died
February 20, 1962
Place of Birth
Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Herbert Halliwell Hobbes
- Halliwell Hobbs
- Holliwell Hobbes
Halliwell Hobbes
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.7
Ely B. Windgate
Miracle in the Rain
1956
5.9
Nicholas Forsyte
That Forsyte Woman
1949
6.5
Martin
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
5.2
Bishop of Tisbury
The Black Arrow
1948
6.6
The Coroner
If Winter Comes
1947
6.7
Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
Hollywood Wonderland
1947
6.6
Clenchfield
Canyon Passage
1946
6.3
Charles, the Butler
Casanova Brown
1944
5.6
Cleghorn, the butler
The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944
6.7
Soames (uncredited)
Mr. Skeffington
1944
Credits
Miracle in the Rain
as Ely B. Windgate
1956
6.7
That Forsyte Woman
as Nicholas Forsyte
1949
5.9
You Gotta Stay Happy
as Martin
1948
6.5
The Black Arrow
as Bishop of Tisbury
1948
5.2
If Winter Comes
as The Coroner
1947
6.6
Hollywood Wonderland
as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
1947
6.7
Canyon Passage
as Clenchfield
1946
6.6
Casanova Brown
as Charles, the Butler
1944
6.3
The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Cleghorn, the butler
1944
5.6
Mr. Skeffington
as Soames (uncredited)
1944
6.7
Gaslight
as Mr. Muffin
1944
7.5
🎬
Information Please
as Lt Eberhard
1944
0.0
His Butler's Sister
as Willebrandt
1943
7.1
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
0.0
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
as Alfred Brunton, the butler
1943
6.8
Forever and a Day
as Doctor
1943
7.4
Journey for Margaret
as Mr. Barrie
1942
6.6
The Undying Monster
as Walton the Butler
1942
5.7
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Bennett
1942
5.2
To Be or Not to Be
as Gen. Armstrong
1942
7.8
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Purdy
1942
7.2
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Sisk
1941
7.0
Sunny
as Johnson
1941
5.5
That Hamilton Woman
as Rev. Nelson
1941
7.1
Lady with Red Hair
as Divorce Judge (uncredited)
1940
6.5
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Burton
1940
6.8
The Sea Hawk
as Astronomer
1940
7.1
Waterloo Bridge
as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
1940
7.5
The Earl of Chicago
as Lord Chancellor
1940
5.6
The Light That Failed
as Doctor
1939
6.0
Remember?
as Butler Williams
1939
5.8
Nurse Edith Cavell
as British Chaplain
1939
6.4
Naughty But Nice
as Dean Burton, Winfield College
1939
6.2
Tell No Tales
as Dr. Lovelake
1939
5.3
The Hardys Ride High
as Dobbs
1939
5.8
Pacific Liner
as Captain Mathews
1939
5.3
A Christmas Carol
as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
1938
7.0
Storm Over Bengal
as Sir John Galt
1938
5.3
Service de Luxe
as Butler
1938
6.5
You Can't Take It with You
as Mr. DePinna
1938
7.5
Kidnapped
as Dominie Campbell
1938
4.7
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Prof. Bernard Goodman
1938
5.7
The Jury's Secret
as John, Butler
1938
4.5
Varsity Show
as Dean Meredith
1937
6.2
Fit for a King
as Count Strunsky
1937
5.0
Parnell
as W.H. Smith
1937
4.6
The Prince and the Pauper
as Archbishop
1937
6.8
Maid of Salem
as Jeremiah
1937
5.9
Love Letters of a Star
as Hotchkiss
1936
0.0
Give Me Your Heart
as Oliver Warren
1936
6.0
Mary of Scotland
as Man (uncredited)
1936
6.3
Spendthrift
as Beuhl - the Butler
1936
5.0
The White Angel
as Lord Raglan
1936
8.0
Hearts Divided
as Cambaceres
1936
5.0
🎬
Changing of the Guard
as Grandfather, the Colonel
1936
1.0
Dracula's Daughter
as Hawkins
1936
5.9
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Lister
1936
6.8
Here Comes Trouble
as Professor Howard
1936
0.0
Captain Blood
as Lord Sunderland (uncredited)
1935
7.2
🎬
Millions in the Air
as Theodore
1935
0.0
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
1935
6.6
Jalna
as Ernest Whiteoaks
1935
4.8
Cardinal Richelieu
as Father Joseph
1935
7.4
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Father of Little Girl
1935
6.0
Folies Bergère
as Monsieur Paulet
1935
5.6
The Right to Live
as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
1935
5.1
Father Brown, Detective
as Sir Leopold Fischer
1934
6.5
Menace
as Skinner
1934
6.5
We Live Again
as Official
1934
6.6
British Agent
as Sir Walter Carrister
1934
5.5
She Was a Lady
as George Dane
1934
0.0
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as First Bobby
1934
5.3
The Key
as General C.O. Furlong
1934
4.9
Double Door
as Mr. Chase
1934
6.8
Riptide
as Bollard
1934
6.2
Mandalay
as Col. Dawson Ames
1934
5.9
I Am Suzanne!
as Dr. Lorenzo
1933
6.2
If I Were Free
as Burford-Gordon's butler
1933
5.0
Should Ladies Behave
as Louis
1933
4.3
Lady for a Day
as Butler
1933
7.0
The Masquerader
as Brock
1933
4.8
Captured!
as British Major General
1933
5.6
Midnight Mary
as Churchill
1933
6.8
A Study in Scarlet
as Malcolm Dearing
1933
5.5
Looking Forward
as Mr. James Felton
1933
6.2
Cynara
as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
1932
4.8
Payment Deferred
as A Prospective Tenant
1932
5.9
6 Hours to Live
as Baron Emil von Sturm
1932
5.0
Week Ends Only
as Martin
1932
0.0
Man About Town
as Hilton
1932
0.0
Devil's Lottery
as Lord Litchfield
1932
0.0
Love Affair
as Kibbee
1932
5.6
The Menace
as Phillips
1932
4.5
Lovers Courageous
as Mr. Smith
1932
5.8
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
1931
7.2
Platinum Blonde
as Smythe
1931
6.7
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Roget
1931
5.9
The Woman Between
as Barton - the Butler
1931
5.3
Five and Ten
as Hopkins (uncredited)
1931
6.2
The Lady Refuses
as Sir James (uncredited)
1931
5.4
The Bachelor Father
as Larkin
1931
6.0
Charley's Aunt
as Stephen Spettigue
1930
5.0
The Right of Way
as The Siegneur
1930
5.2
Scotland Yard
as Lord St. Arran
1930
0.0
Grumpy
as Ruddick
1930
4.0
Jealousy
as Rigaud
1929
0.0
🎬
Lucky In Love
1929
0.0