Birthday
1877/11/16
Day of death
1962/02/20 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Also know as
Herbert Halliwell Hobbes, Halliwell Hobbs, Holliwell Hobbes
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 ...Read more
(1931) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
(1936) Dracula's Daughter
as Police Sgt. Hawkins
(1931) Platinum Blonde
as Smythe
(1938) You Can't Take It with You
as Mr. DePinna
(1935) Charlie Chan in Shanghai
as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
(1942) The Undying Monster
as Walton the Butler
(1944) The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Cleghorn, the butler
(1932) Payment Deferred
as A Prospective Tenant
(1937) The Prince and the Pauper
as Archbishop
(1946) Canyon Passage
as Clenchfield
(1933) Lady for a Day
as Butler
(1949) That Forsyte Woman
as Nicholas Forsyte
(1941) That Hamilton Woman
as Rev. Nelson
(1935) The Right to Live
as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
(1934) She Was a Lady
as George Dane
(1932) Love Affair
as Kibbee
(1941) Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Sisk
(1932) Devil's Lottery
as Lord Litchfield
(1940) Third Finger, Left Hand
as Burton
(1933) Midnight Mary
as Churchill
(1934) The Key
as General C.O. Furlong
(1936) The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. Lister
(1941) Sunny
as Johnson
(1939) Tell No Tales
as Dr. Lovelake
(1931) Five and Ten
as Hopkins (uncredited)
(1940) The Earl of Chicago
as Lord Chancellor
(1938) Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Prof. Bernard Goodman
(1934) British Agent
as Sir Walter Carrister
(1937) Varsity Show
as Dean Meredith
(1932) Cynara
as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
(1933) Captured!
as British Major General
(1936) Hearts Divided
as Cambaceres
(1930) Charley's Aunt
as Stephen Spettigue
(1930) Grumpy
as Ruddick
(1939) The Light That Failed
as Doctor
(1932) The Menace
as Phillips
(1931) The Woman Between
as Barton - the Butler
(1939) Remember?
as Butler Williams
(1930) The Right of Way
as The Siegneur
(1931) The Bachelor Father
as Larkin
(1937) Fit for a King
as Count Strunsky
(1933) The Masquerader
as Brock
(1934) Father Brown, Detective
as Sir Leopold Fischer
(1938) Service de Luxe
as Butler
(1944) Casanova Brown
as Charles, the Butler
(1947) If Winter Comes
as The Coroner
(1934) Mandalay
as Col. Dawson Ames
(1930) Scotland Yard
as Lord St. Arran
(1932) 6 Hours to Live
as Baron Emil von Sturm
(1933) I Am Suzanne!
as Dr. Lorenzo
(1933) Should Ladies Behave
as Louis
(1943) Mr. Muggs Steps Out
as ---
(1932) Lovers Courageous
as Mr. Smith
(1933) Looking Forward
as Mr. James Felton
(1935) Cardinal Richelieu
as Father Joseph
(1935) Folies Bergère
as Monsieur Paulet
(1936) Mary of Scotland
as Man (uncredited)
(1942) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Purdy
(1936) Spendthrift
as Beuhl - the Butler
(1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Roget
(1936) Give Me Your Heart
as Oliver Warren
(1944) Gaslight
as Mr. Muffin
(1939) Naughty But Nice
as Dean Burton, Winfield College
(1936) The White Angel
as Lord Raglan
(1939) Pacific Liner
as Captain Mathews
(1939) The Hardys Ride High
as Dobbs
(1934) Menace
as Skinner
(1934) We Live Again
as Official
(1939) Nurse Edith Cavell
as British Chaplain
(1935) Jalna
as Ernest Whiteoaks
(1938) Kidnapped
as Dominie Campbell
(1937) Maid of Salem
as Jeremiah
(1936) Here Comes Trouble
as Professor Howard
(1942) The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Bennett
(1948) The Black Arrow
as Bishop of Tisbury
(1932) Man About Town
as Hilton
(1932) Week Ends Only
as Martin
(1943) Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
as Alfred Brunton, the butler
(1935) Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Father of Little Girl
(1940) The Sea Hawk
as Astronomer
(1940) Waterloo Bridge
as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
(1940) Lady with Red Hair
as Divorce Judge (uncredited)
(1942) Journey for Margaret
as Mr. Barrie
(1944) Mr. Skeffington
as Soames (uncredited)
(1943) Forever and a Day
as Doctor
(1938) Storm Over Bengal
as Sir John Galt
(1933) If I Were Free
as Burford-Gordon's butler
(1936) Changing of the Guard
as Grandfather, the Colonel
(1956) Miracle in the Rain
as Ely B. Windgate
(1929) Lucky In Love
as ---
(1938) A Christmas Carol
as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
(1935) Captain Blood
as Lord Sunderland
(1942) To Be or Not to Be
as Gen. Armstrong
(1934) Double Door
as Mr. Chase
(1934) Riptide
as Bollard
(1936) Love Letters of a Star
as Hotchkiss
(1943) His Butler's Sister
as Willebrandt
(1938) The Jury's Secret
as John, Butler
(1934) Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as First Bobby
(1948) You Gotta Stay Happy
as Martin
(1947) Hollywood Wonderland
as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
(1933) A Study in Scarlet
as Malcolm Dearing
(1944) Information Please
as Lt Eberhard
(1929) Jealousy
as Rigaud
(1937) Parnell
as W.H. Smith