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Reginald Barlow aka Major Reginald Barlow (June 17, 1866 - July 6, 1943) was a veteran stage and screen character actor, and film director. He was a busy performer in Hollywood films of the 1930s.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Filmography 1.3.1 Actor 1.3.2 Director 1.4 Family 1.4.1 Scandals 2 External links

A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of old-time minstrel, Milt G. Barlow, he made his stage debut at the age of nine in his father's Minstrel Troupe of Barlow.

In 1900 he joined the Royal Canadian Regiment, then about to entrain for South Africa. He was a veteran of three wars, The Spanish-American War, The Second Boer War, and World War I, in which he was a colonel. His decoration from Queen Victoria was awarded for the rescue of his wounded captain under fire. He had thoughts of quitting the stage for the church in 1908 and at the time remarked to an interviewer that all his ancestors have been soldiers, actors, and ministers, and some of them all three.

A distinguished looking actor who lent an air of dignity to any role he played. In the early part of his stage career he landed leading roles in The Silver King, Monte Cristo, The Sign of the Cross, and The Little Princess.

Among his early films were the 1920s low-budget Love's Flame for which he billed himself Colonel Reginald Barlow and The Washington Masquerade. Turning to films permanently after the changeover to sound, Barlow usually played men of means, military officers, senators, and bankers turning up as a chaplain in 1933 Ann Vickers; the sheriff in 1939 Tower of London; and the Professor Warwick ostracizing mad scientist George Zucco in 1942 The Mad Monster.

• Headline (1944)
• The World Owes Me a Living (1944)
• Law of the Northwest (1943)
• Old Mother Riley Overseas (1943)
• The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
• The Mad Monster (1942)
• Scotland Yard (1941)
• The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940)
• Tower of London (1939)
• Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939)
• The Witness Vanishes (1939)
• Dick Tracy's G-Men"" (1939)
• New Frontier (1939)
• Wall Street Cowboy (1939)
• Colorado Sunset (1939)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
• Heritage of the Desert (1939)
• Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
• Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
• The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
• Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
• The Toast of New York (1937)
• The Road Back (1937)
• The Great Barrier (1937)
• Lloyd's of London (1936)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
• The Girl from Mandalay (1936)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
• O'Malley of the Mounted (1936)
• White Lies (1935)
• Captain Blood (1935)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
• Hooray for Love (1935)
• Werewolf of London (1935)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• The Red Blood of Courage (1935)
• Les Misérables (1935)
• Strangers All (1935)
• Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
• A Dog of Flanders (1935)
• Mutiny Ahead (1935)
• The Gilded Lily (1935)
• Romance in Manhattan (1935)
• Cheating Cheaters (1934)
• Great Expectations (1934)
• One Night of Love (1934)
• Beyond the Law (1934)
• Stamboul Quest (1934)
• Operator 13 (1934)
• Half a Sinner (1934)
• The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
• You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
• Flying Down to Rio (1933
• Day of Reckoning (1933)
• Ann Vickers (1933)
• Doctor Bull (1933)
• Midnight Mary (1933)
• His Private Secretary (1933)
• The Big Cage (1933)
• Fast Workers (1933)
• King Kong (1933)
• Grand Slam (1933)
• Parachute Jumper (1933)
• Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
• If I Had a Million (1932)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
• Afraid to Talk (1932)
• Evenings for Sale (1932)
• The Age of Consent (1932)
• Speak Easily (1932)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• Washington Masquerade (1932)
• As You Desire Me (1932)
• Sinners in the Sun (1932)
• Night Court (1932)
• World and the Flesh (1932)
• The Wet Parade (1932)
• Alias the Doctor (1932)
• This Reckless Age (1932)
• The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
• Mata Hari (1931)
• Clothes Make the Pirate (1925)
• Love's Flame (1920)
• The Cinema Murder (1919)
• Monsieur Lecoq (1915)

• The Toy-Maker of Leyden (1915)

Barlow married three times:

• a) Clare Danforth, whom he wed on April 15, 1902 in Charleston, Missouri.
• b) Milwaukee heiress Bertha Merkle (aka Selma Rose), whom he wed in August 1903 in Los Angeles, California, and to whom he remained married until her death in 1933.
• c) Carol Barlow (of New Hampshire), to whom he was married at the time of his death, according to his death certificate.

On August 21, 1903 the Chicago Inter Ocean reported that Barlow had committed bigamy. According to Barlow's first wife, the couple were not divorced at the time of his second marriage to Bertha Merkle.

• Reginald Barlow at the Internet Movie Database
• Reginald Barlow at the Internet Broadway Database
• Reginald Barlow's memorial