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Alan Mowbray
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Alan Mowbray (August 18, 1896 - March 25, 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.
Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, 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 one hundred and forty films and playing the title role in the TV series "The Adventures of Colonel Flack". 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.
- Alexander Hamilton (1931)
- The Girl from Missouri (1934)
- Becky Sharp (1935)
- Ladies in Love (1936)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Topper (1937)
- That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- Terror by Night (1946)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
- Wagonmaster (1950)
- The King and I (1956)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- A Majority of One (1962)