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Alan Mowbray MM, (18 August 1896 - 25 March 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, 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 140 films including the sterling butler role in the comedy Merrily We Live, and playing the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Colonel Flack. During World War II, he made a memorable appearance as the Devil in the Hal Roach propaganda comedy The Devil with Hitler. He appeared in some two dozen guest roles on various 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. He played the title role in the television series Colonel Humphrey Flack, which first appeared in 1953-1954 and then was revived in 1958-1959. In the 1954-1955 television season Mowbray played Mr. Swift, the drama coach of the character Mickey Mulligan, in NBC's short-lived situation comedy The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan. Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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16 July 1937
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper.
19 December 1941
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
15 September 1933
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
15 January 1943
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer.
04 June 1934
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
21 February 1932
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.
04 March 1938
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform.
25 December 1947
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition.
24 December 1952
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
31 October 1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
30 July 1940
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio.
18 December 1933
In "Her Secret" (aka "The Girl from Georgia" in the UK in 1934 when shown there)Johnny, the son of a rich-man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer, who leads a wild-and-hectic life, flunks out of college, and is disinherited and made to leave home by his father, who has given up on his on in despair.
31 December 1937
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
05 November 1932
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl.
01 December 1954
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
22 November 1935
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
11 August 1949
A newspaper man, and former jewel thief, is accused of gem theft.
23 January 1932
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
03 September 1932
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
24 June 1932
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
16 January 1948
After fighting in the Crusades alongside Richard I of England Sir Allan Claire is returning home to marry his betrothed Lady Christable.
11 October 1947
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract.
01 January 1956
Thanks to the collaboration between American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and Angels from Heaven a song writing working on his latest musical can finally go on his delayed honeymoon.
16 May 1956
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot.
05 August 1955
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
08 July 1932
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
28 July 1936
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
25 December 1948
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician.
28 July 1933
With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled.
09 October 1936
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
18 October 1942
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed.
26 May 1949
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work.
07 April 1934
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons.
08 October 1937
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
19 January 1934
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
02 September 1936
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River.
22 July 1949
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner.
01 April 1943
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
06 August 1934
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
01 October 1951
A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
12 September 1934
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor.
12 February 1937
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
22 August 1931
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
18 August 1937
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too.
16 July 1932
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son.
05 April 1945
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies.
24 August 1943
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
13 February 1936
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins.
01 December 1952
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.
14 October 1954
The lion is trapped by the safari and brought to New York, where he's accidentally set free, but nobody is intimidated by him.
31 January 1936
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
25 November 1933
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr.
04 January 1940
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
27 March 1937
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
28 August 1947
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared.
13 March 1942
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money.
11 May 1949
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
13 April 1931
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
13 August 1951
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
04 July 1931
A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.
