Halliwell Hobbes

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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.

Waterloo Bridge

Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)

Midnight Mary

Churchill

You Can't Take It with You

Mr. DePinna

Payment Deferred

A Prospective Tenant

Folies Bergère

Monsieur Paulet

The Hardys Ride High

Dobbs

Lady for a Day

Butler

Double Door

Mr. Chase

Canyon Passage

Clenchfield

The Black Arrow

Bishop of Tisbury

The Undying Monster

Walton the Butler

The Light That Failed

Doctor

Give Me Your Heart

Oliver Warren

Varsity Show

Dean Meredith

Kidnapped

Dominie Campbell

The Masquerader

Brock

Captain Blood

Lord Sunderland (uncredited)

Sunny

Johnson

You Gotta Stay Happy

Martin

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Dr. Lister

Cardinal Richelieu

Father Joseph

Lovers Courageous

Mr. Smith

Mandalay

Col. Dawson Ames

Gaslight

Mr. Muffin

That Forsyte Woman

Nicholas Forsyte

Looking Forward

Mr. James Felton

The Jury's Secret

John, Butler

The Prince and the Pauper

Archbishop

Riptide

Bollard

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Purdy

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Alfred Brunton, the butler

The Menace

Phillips

The Sea Hawk

Astronomer

Captured!

British Major General

To Be or Not to Be

Gen. Armstrong

Pacific Liner

Captain Mathews

The Key

General C.O. Furlong

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Bennett

Man About Town

Hilton

If Winter Comes

The Coroner

The Earl of Chicago

Lord Chancellor

Hearts Divided

Cambaceres

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

First Bobby

Grumpy

Ruddick

Cynara

Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)

Jalna

Ernest Whiteoaks

Menace

Skinner

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Journey for Margaret

Mr. Barrie

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew

Maid of Salem

Jeremiah

Dracula's Daughter

Hawkins

Storm Over Bengal

Sir John Galt

The White Angel

Lord Raglan

Devil's Lottery

Lord Litchfield

Hollywood Wonderland

Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)

British Agent

Sir Walter Carrister

Father Brown, Detective

Sir Leopold Fischer

She Was a Lady

George Dane

Charlie Chan in Shanghai

Colonel Watkins, police commissioner

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Roget

6 Hours to Live

Baron Emil von Sturm

Platinum Blonde

Smythe

Five and Ten

Hopkins (uncredited)

Third Finger, Left Hand

Burton

If I Were Free

Burford-Gordon's butler

A Study in Scarlet

Malcolm Dearing

The Right to Live

Dr. Sir Stephen Barr

Spendthrift

Beuhl - the Butler

The Lady Refuses

Sir James (uncredited)

Week Ends Only

Martin

Service de Luxe

Butler

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Cleghorn, the butler

That Hamilton Woman

Rev. Nelson

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Prof. Bernard Goodman

Love Letters of a Star

Hotchkiss

Remember?

Butler Williams

Scotland Yard

Lord St. Arran

Mr. Skeffington

Soames (uncredited)

We Live Again

Official

Parnell

W.H. Smith

Fit for a King

Count Strunsky

Jealousy

Rigaud

The Right of Way

The Siegneur

A Christmas Carol

Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)

The Woman Between

Barton - the Butler

Charley's Aunt

Stephen Spettigue

Casanova Brown

Charles, the Butler

Here Comes Trouble

Professor Howard

Nurse Edith Cavell

British Chaplain

I Am Suzanne!

Dr. Lorenzo

Miracle in the Rain

Ely B. Windgate

Tell No Tales

Dr. Lovelake

Forever and a Day