Reginald Owen actor
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- Total known movies 128
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJohn Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and later in television programmes. The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert Trees Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1905. In 1911, he starred in the original production of Where the Rainbow Ends as Saint George which opened to very good reviews on 21 December 1911. Reginald Owen had a few years earlier met the author Mrs. Clifford Mills as a young actor, and it was he who on hearing her idea of a Rainbow Story persuaded her to turn it into a play, and thus Where the Rainbow Ends was born.He went to the United States in 1920 and worked originally on Broadway in New York, but later moved to Hollywood, where he began a lengthy film career. He was always a familiar face in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions.Owen is perhaps best known today for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, a role he inherited from Lionel Barrymore, who had played the part of Scrooge on the radio every Christmas for years until Barrymore broke his hip in an accident.Owen was one of only five actors to play both Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson (Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television films). Howard Marion-Crawford played Holmes in a radio adaptation of The Speckled Band and later played Watson to Ronald Howard’s Holmes in the 1954-55 television series.Owen first played Watson in the film Sherlock Holmes (1932), and then Holmes himself in A Study in Scarlet (1933). Having played Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Owen has the odd distinction of playing three classic characters of Victorian fiction only to live to see those characters be taken over and personified by other actors, namely Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson.Later in his career, Owen appeared opposite James Garner in the television series Maverick in the episodes The Belcastle Brand (1957) and Gun-Shy (1958) and also guest starred in episodes of the series One Step Beyond and Bewitched. He was featured in the Walt Disney films Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He had a small role in the 1962 Irwin Allen production of the Jules Verne novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. In August 1964, his Bel-Air mansion was rented out to the Beatles, who were performing at the Hollywood Bowl, when no hotel would book them.
Clayton
Movie 1942
Charles
Movie 1933
Dexter Grayson
Movie 1931
Gen. Teagler
Movie 1971
Movie 1964
Bernard Dalvik
Movie 1941
Foley
Movie 1942
Schultz
Movie 1942
The Advocate
Movie 1948
Consul
Movie 1962
Sampston
Movie 1936
Chancellor
Movie 1937
Hillary Bellaire
Movie 1938
Philo Cobson
Movie 1942
Ben Weatherstaff
Movie 1949
Dr. Becquerel
Movie 1943
Maurice Dourel
Movie 1937
Baron Otto Spandermann
Movie 1936
Claude Dabney
Movie 1937
Myerson
Movie 1936
Thorpe Athelny
Movie 1934
Sherlock Holmes
Movie 1933
Willie Manning
Movie 1942
William, the Butler
Movie 1938
Benjy Hawkins
Movie 1948
Stiva
Movie 1935
Oscar Baroque
Movie 1934
Edwards, Marvin's Valet
Movie 1939
Ernst Weber
Movie 1934
General Allen
Movie 1941
Claude Dabney
Movie 1931
Mr. Henry Casper
Movie 1943
Skipper of the Congo Queen
Movie 1942
Duke of Malmunster
Movie 1945
Captain O'Hara
Movie 1947
Hemingway
Movie 1940
Capt. Hartley
Movie 1939
Bordenave
Movie 1934
Sir James Felton
Movie 1936
Gervase Gonwell
Movie 1940
Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen
Movie 1932
Mr. Fortune
Movie 1947
Robert Crosbie
Movie 1929
Bainbridge Gibbons
Movie 1954
Dr. Watson
Movie 1932
Vova
Movie 1934
Paul
Movie 1935
Lord Jimmy
Movie 1932
Reginald Mason
Movie 1941
President of Club
Movie 1936
Henry Arbuthnot
Movie 1935
King Louis XV
Movie 1933
Charlie Grump
Movie 1938
Vincent Charlton
Movie 1939
Mr. Hopkins
Movie 1946
Maj. Tyler-Blane
Movie 1942
Patrick
Movie 1967
Emperor Franz Josef
Movie 1940
Col. Trane
Movie 1943
Judge
Movie 1946
Herries
Movie 1934
General Videnko
Movie 1939
Mr. Frith
Movie 1933
King Louis XV
Movie 1934
Mr. Foley
Movie 1950
Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson
Movie 1934
James Moore
Movie 1947
John Hodge Lawson
Movie 1938
Sir Horace Bragdon
Movie 1939
Dely Delacorte
Movie 1951
Mr. Amboy
Movie 1945
John Girard
Movie 1943
King Louis XV
Movie 1946
Scrooge (atchive footage)
Movie 1938
Dictionary McKinney
Movie 1936
William
Movie 1937
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1974
Lord Darlington
Movie 1933
'Whiskers'
Movie 1942
Mr. Redcliffe
Movie 1941
Blackton Gregory
Movie 1936
Dr. Herbert Atkins
Movie 1932
Father Victor
Movie 1950
Farmer Ede
Movie 1945
Leonard
Movie 1934
Max Milton
Movie 1941
Noah Glenkins
Movie 1942
The Prime Minister
Movie 1932
Guy Waller
Movie 1935
Judge Wallace Winthrop
Movie 1954
'Buzz' Foster
Movie 1940
The Baron
Movie 1934
Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
Movie 1985
Cecil Herrick
Movie 1932
Cary Shadwell
Movie 1945
Lord Wheatley
Movie 1922
James Dalton
Movie 1934
Mr. Bennett
Movie 1960
J. Cecil Bennett
Movie 1959
Heathcote St. John
Movie 1922
Tv 1964
Sir Hillary Cooper
Tv 1965
The Hussar ('A Terribly Strange Bed')
Tv 1960
Tv 1970
Herbert Blakely
Tv 1959
Ambrose Feather
Tv 1959
Tv 1957
Marquis Norbert Belcastle
Tv 1957
