From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCharles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a good guy, including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled Daniel.Daniells film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplins The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like garbage, a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco.Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldnt fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces.Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughtons blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahns The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, Pappy opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode The Trial of Colonel Blood, with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughtons leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957).The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actors career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance.
Garbitsch
Filme 1940
Dr. Zucco
Filme 1961
Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane
Filme 1945
Gireaux
Filme 1961
Sir Anthony Lloyd
Filme 1942
Public Prosecutor
Filme 1941
Professor James Moriarty
Filme 1945
Bill Ogden
Filme 1956
Watson King
Filme 1942
Pierre Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais
Filme 1957
William Easter
Filme 1943
Lerocle
Filme 1937
General Savary
Filme 1937
Baron de Varville
Filme 1936
Morgana
Filme 1958
Seton Cram
Filme 1938
Norman Warriner
Filme 1929
Capt. Duval
Filme 1950
Garbitsch (archive footage) (uncredited)
Filme 2007
Stranger
Filme 1962
Stipe
Filme 1961
Dr. Emil Zurich
Filme 1959
Colonel Ingram
Filme 1947
Professor Marvin Griswald
Filme 1937
Maj. Edward Chevenish
Filme 1949
Franz Liszt
Filme 1947
Mr. Earnshaw
Filme 1957
Baron Von Stetten
Filme 1945
John Wales
Filme 1937
Gondi
Filme 1956
Hugh Lewis
Filme 1936
Mr. Manningham
Filme 1946
Bobo
Filme 1942
Phili Von Ramme
Filme 1943
Mekere
Filme 1954
Julian Davis
Filme 1941
Count von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel)
Filme 1930
King Maximillian
Filme 1934
Edward Moulton-Barrett
Filme 1956
Frederick Seamon
Filme 1942
King William III
Filme 1945
Capt. Edgar Stafford
Filme 1942
Emile Fleuron
Filme 1942
The Regent - William of Pembroke
Filme 1946
Sheik Ageiba
Filme 1962
Court-martial Judge (uncredited)
Filme 1962
Ambassador (uncredited)
Filme 1964
Ramadi
Filme 1955
Clement
Filme 1929
Tv 1958
Tv 1948
Tv 1958
Tv 1958
Lord Belmont
Tv 1950
Tv 1955
Tv 1954
Tv 1949
Tv 1956
Tv 1957