Alan Mowbray
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- born: 18/Aug/1896 (London, England, UK)
- died: 25/Mar/1969 (Hollywood, California, USA) - heart attack
Biography
Alan Mowbray was a British stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.
Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, he served with the British Army in World War I. 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 a played the title role in the TV series "The Adventures of Colonel Flack" and appeared in 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.
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - cast: Val Parnell