Holmes Herbert

Acting

Born July 30, 1882, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952. Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s. Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955. He died in 1956 at age 74.

Filmography

• 1952At Sword's Point
• 1952The Brigand — Archbishop
• 1952The Wild North — Magistrate (uncredited)
• 1951Anne of the Indies — English Sea Captain
• 1951The Son of Dr. Jekyll — Constable (uncredited)
• 1951The Unknown Man — (uncredited)
• 1950The Iroquois Trail — Gen. Johnson
• 1949Barbary Pirate — Thomas Jefferson
• 1949Canadian Pacific — Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)
• 1949Post Office Investigator — James Seeley
• 1949South of St. Louis
• 1949The Lost Tribe — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1948A Woman's Vengeance — Warder (uncredited)
• 1948Family Honeymoon — Rev. Miller (uncredited)
• 1948Johnny Belinda — Judge (uncredited)
• 1948Jungle Jim — Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden
• 1948Sorry, Wrong Number — Wilkins (uncredited)
• 1948The Swordsman — Lord Glowan
• 1948The Wreck of the Hesperus — Pastor West
• 1947Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back — Inspector McIver
• 1947Bulldog Drummond at Bay — Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar
• 1947Ivy — Mulloy (uncredited)
• 1947Over the Santa Fe Trail — Doc Henderson
• 1947Singapore — Rev. Barnes
• 1947The Ghost Goes Wild — Judge
• 1946Dressed to Kill — Ebenezer Crabtree
• 1946Love Laughs at Andy Hardy — Dr. White (uncredited)
• 1946The Verdict — Sir William Dawson
• 1946Three Strangers — Sir Robert (uncredited)
• 1945Confidential Agent — Lord Benditch
• 1945Jealousy — Melvyn Russell
• 1945Swingin' on a Rainbow — Butler (uncredited)
• 1945The House of Fear — Alan Cosgrave
• 1945The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
• 1944Enter Arsène Lupin — Jobson
• 1944Our Hearts Were Young and Gay — Captain (uncredited)
• 1944The Mummy's Curse — Dr. Cooper
• 1944The Pearl of Death — James Goodram, courier
• 1944The Uninvited — Charlie Jessup
• 1944The Unwritten Code — McDowell (uncredited)
• 1943Calling Dr. Death — Bryant, the Butler
• 1943Corvette K-225 — Commodore Ramsay
• 1943Sherlock Holmes in Washington — Mr. Ahrens
• 1943Two Tickets to London — Kilgallen
• 1942Danger in the Pacific — Commissioner
• 1942Invisible Agent — Sir Alfred Spencer
• 1942Lady in a Jam — Man at Auction (uncredited)
• 1942Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon — Sir Reginald
• 1942Strictly in the Groove — Commissioner
• 1942The Ghost of Frankenstein — Magistrate
• 1942The Undying Monster — Chief Constable (uncredited)
• 1942This Above All — Dr. Mathias
• 1941Man Hunt — Saul Farnsworthy
• 1940A Dispatch from Reuters — Member of Parliament (uncredited)
• 1940An Angel from Texas — Second Banker
• 1940Boom Town — Doctor (uncredited)
• 1940Foreign Correspondent — Asst. Commissioner
• 1940Phantom Raiders — Sir Edward
• 1940South of Suez — Simpson
• 1940The Earl of Chicago — Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited)
• 1940The Letter — Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
• 193920,000 Men a Year — Dean Norris
• 1939Bad Boy — Mr. McNeil
• 1939British Intelligence — Arthur Bennett
• 1939Everything Happens at Night — Featherstone
• 1939Hidden Power — Dr. Morley
• 1939Intermezzo: A Love Story — Doctor (Uncredited)
• 1939Juarez — Marshal Randon (uncredited)
• 1939Mr. Moto's Last Warning — Bentham (uncredited)
• 1939Mystery of the White Room — Hospital Administrator
• 1939Rulers of the Sea — Member of Naval Company (Uncredited)
• 1939Stanley and Livingstone — Frederick Holcomb
• 1939The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Justice of the Court
• 1939The House of Fear — Minor Role
• 1939The Little Princess — Doctor
• 1939The Mystery of Mr. Wong — Prof. Ed Janney
• 1939The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex — Majordomo (uncredited)
• 1939The Sun Never Sets — Colonial Official
• 1939Tower of London — Councilman (uncredited)
• 1939Trapped in the Sky — Fielding
• 1939We Are Not Alone — Police Inspector
• 1939Wolf Call — J.L. Winton
• 1938Here's Flash Casey — Maj. Addison
• 1938Kidnapped — Judge
• 1938Marie Antoinette — Herald (uncredited)
• 1938Say It in French — Richard Carrington Sr.
• 1938The Black Doll — Dr. Giddings
• 1938The Buccaneer — Captain McWilliams
• 1937Slave Ship — Commander
• 1937The Girl Said No — Charles Dillon (scenes deleted)
• 1937The Man Without a Country — Aaron Burr
• 1937The Prince and the Pauper — First Doctor
• 1937The Thirteenth Chair — Governor Sir Roscoe Crosby
• 193615 Maiden Lane — Harold Anderson
• 1936Brilliant Marriage — Mr. Rodney Allison
• 1936Champagne Charlie — Captain Dell
• 1936Lloyd's of London — Spokesman
• 1936The Gentleman from Louisiana — Chief Steward
• 1936The House of Secrets — Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary
• 1936The White Angel — War Minister (uncredited)
• 1936Wife vs. Secretary — Frawley (uncredited)
• 1935Accent on Youth — Frank Galloway
• 1935Captain Blood — Capt. Gardner
• 1935Cardinal Richelieu — Noble
• 1935Mark of the Vampire — Sir Karell Borotyn
• 1935One in a Million — Donald Cabot Sr.
• 1934Beloved — Lord Landslake
• 1934Sons of Steel — Curtis Chadburne
• 1934The Curtain Falls — John Scorsby
• 1934The House of Rothschild — Rowerth
• 1934The Pursuit of Happiness — Gen. Sir Henry Clinton
• 1933Mystery of the Wax Museum — Dr. Rasmussen
• 1933The Invisible Man — Chief of Police
• 1932Central Park — Benefit Emcee (uncredited)
• 1932Miss Pinkerton — Arthur Glenn
• 1932Shop Angel — James Walton Kennedy
• 1932Sister to Judas — Bruce Rogers
• 1931Broadminded — John J. Hackett Sr.
• 1931Chances — Maj. Bradford
• 1931Daughter of the Dragon — Sir John Petrie
• 1931Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Dr. John Lanyon
• 1931The Hot Heiress — Mr. Hunter
• 1931The Single Sin — Roger Van Dorn
• 1930The Ship from Shanghai — Paul Thorpe
• 1929Careers — Carouge
• 1929Her Private Life — Rudolph Solomon
• 1929Madame X — Noel
• 1929Say It with Songs — Dr. Robert Merrill
• 1929The Careless Age — Sir John
• 1929The Charlatan — Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
• 1929The Kiss — Lassalle
• 1929The Thirteenth Chair — Sir Roscoe Crosby
• 1929Untamed — Howard Presley
• 1928Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Henry Spoffard
• 1928On Trial — Gerald Trask
• 1928The Sporting Age — James Driscoll
• 1928The Terror — Goodman
• 1928Their Hour — Cora's Father
• 1928Through the Breakers — Eustis Hobbs
• 1927East Side, West Side — Gilbert Van Horn
• 1927Lovers — Milton
• 1927Mr. Wu — Mr. Gregory
• 1927One Increasing Purpose — Charles Paris
• 1927Slaves of Beauty — Leonard Jones
• 1927The Gay Retreat — Charles Wright
• 1927The Heart of Salome — Sir Humphrey
• 1927The Silver Slave — Tom Richards
• 1927When a Man Loves — Jean Tiberge
• 1926Josselyn's Wife — Thomas Josselyn
• 1926The Fire Brigade — James Corwin
• 1926The Honeymoon Express — Jim Donaldson
• 1925A Woman of the World — Richard Granger
• 1925Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
• 1925The Wanderer — Prophet
• 1925Up the Ladder — Robert Newhall
• 1925Wildfire — Garrison
• 1925Wreckage — Stuart Ames
• 1924Another Scandal — Pelham Franklin
• 1924Her Own Free Will — Peter Craddock
• 1924I Will Repay — Sir Percy Blakeney
• 1924Love's Wilderness — David Tennant
• 1924Sinners in Heaven — Hugh Rochedale
• 1924The Enchanted Cottage — Major Hillgrove
• 1924Week End Husbands — William Randall
• 1923Toilers of the Sea — Sandro
• 1922A Stage Romance — Prince of Wales
• 1922A Woman's Woman — John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert)
• 1922Any Wife — Philip Gray
• 1922Divorce Coupons — Roland Bland
• 1922Evidence — Judge Rowland
• 1922Moonshine Valley — Dr. Martin
• 1921Heedless Moths — The Sculptor
• 1921Her Lord and Master — R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning
• 1921The Family Closet — Alfred Dinsmore
• 1921The Wild Goose — Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert)
• 1920Black Is White — Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert)
• 1920Dead Men Tell No Tales — Squire John Rattray
• 1920His House in Order — Filmer Jesson
• 1920Lady Rose's Daughter — Jacob Delafield
• 1920My Lady's Garter — Henry Van Derp, aka The Hawk
• 1920On with the Dance
• 1920The Right to Love — Lord Falkland
• 1920The Truth About Husbands — Dustan Renshaw
• 1919Greater Than Love — James Bruton
• 1919Other Men's Wives — Fenwick Flint
• 1919The ABC of Love — Harry Bryant
• 1919The Divorcee — Sir Paradine Fuldes
• 1919The Market of Souls — Temple Bane
• 1919The Rough Neck — A Half-Breed Indian
• 1919The White Heather — Lord Angus Cameron
• 1918A Doll's House — Thorvald Helmar
• 1918The Death Dance — Arnold Maitland
• 1917Her Life and His — Ralph Howard
• 1917The Man Without a Country — Lt. Philip Nolan
• 1915His Wife — John Dennys
• 1915The Fisherwoman — The Son
• The Nest — Richard Elliot