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
Film 1942
Charles
Film 1933
Dexter Grayson
Film 1931
Gen. Teagler
Film 1971
Film 1964
Bernard Dalvik
Film 1941
Foley
Film 1942
Schultz
Film 1942
The Advocate
Film 1948
Consul
Film 1962
Sampston
Film 1936
Chancellor
Film 1937
Hillary Bellaire
Film 1938
Philo Cobson
Film 1942
Ben Weatherstaff
Film 1949
Dr. Becquerel
Film 1943
Maurice Dourel
Film 1937
Baron Otto Spandermann
Film 1936
Claude Dabney
Film 1937
Myerson
Film 1936
Thorpe Athelny
Film 1934
Sherlock Holmes
Film 1933
Willie Manning
Film 1942
William, the Butler
Film 1938
Benjy Hawkins
Film 1948
Stiva
Film 1935
Oscar Baroque
Film 1934
Edwards, Marvin's Valet
Film 1939
Ernst Weber
Film 1934
General Allen
Film 1941
Claude Dabney
Film 1931
Mr. Henry Casper
Film 1943
Skipper of the Congo Queen
Film 1942
Duke of Malmunster
Film 1945
Captain O'Hara
Film 1947
Hemingway
Film 1940
Capt. Hartley
Film 1939
Bordenave
Film 1934
Sir James Felton
Film 1936
Gervase Gonwell
Film 1940
Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen
Film 1932
Mr. Fortune
Film 1947
Robert Crosbie
Film 1929
Bainbridge Gibbons
Film 1954
Dr. Watson
Film 1932
Vova
Film 1934
Paul
Film 1935
Lord Jimmy
Film 1932
Reginald Mason
Film 1941
President of Club
Film 1936
Henry Arbuthnot
Film 1935
King Louis XV
Film 1933
Charlie Grump
Film 1938
Vincent Charlton
Film 1939
Mr. Hopkins
Film 1946
Maj. Tyler-Blane
Film 1942
Patrick
Film 1967
Emperor Franz Josef
Film 1940
Col. Trane
Film 1943
Judge
Film 1946
Herries
Film 1934
General Videnko
Film 1939
Mr. Frith
Film 1933
King Louis XV
Film 1934
Mr. Foley
Film 1950
Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson
Film 1934
James Moore
Film 1947
John Hodge Lawson
Film 1938
Sir Horace Bragdon
Film 1939
Dely Delacorte
Film 1951
Mr. Amboy
Film 1945
John Girard
Film 1943
King Louis XV
Film 1946
Scrooge (atchive footage)
Film 1938
Dictionary McKinney
Film 1936
William
Film 1937
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1974
Lord Darlington
Film 1933
'Whiskers'
Film 1942
Mr. Redcliffe
Film 1941
Blackton Gregory
Film 1936
Dr. Herbert Atkins
Film 1932
Father Victor
Film 1950
Farmer Ede
Film 1945
Leonard
Film 1934
Max Milton
Film 1941
Noah Glenkins
Film 1942
The Prime Minister
Film 1932
Guy Waller
Film 1935
Judge Wallace Winthrop
Film 1954
'Buzz' Foster
Film 1940
The Baron
Film 1934
Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
Film 1985
Cecil Herrick
Film 1932
Cary Shadwell
Film 1945
Lord Wheatley
Film 1922
James Dalton
Film 1934
Mr. Bennett
Film 1960
J. Cecil Bennett
Film 1959
Heathcote St. John
Film 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