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person_profile-Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell Died at age: 69

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Henry Daniell

Date of Birth:

Mar 04, 1894

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Oct 31, 1963

Biography of

Henry Daniell

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Charles 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".

    Daniell's 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 Chaplin's 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 couldn't 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 Laughton's 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. Cahn's 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 Laughton's 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 actor's 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."

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Filmography of

Henry Daniell

Found 62 Movies in total

... 2007

My Fair Lady

Ambassador (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1964

Mutiny on the Bounty

Court-martial Judge (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1962

The Chapman Report

Dr. Jonas ( Actor )

... 1962

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Sheik Ageiba ( Actor )

... 1962

The Notorious Landlady

Stranger ( Actor )

... 1962

The Comancheros

Gireaux ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1961

Madison Avenue

Stipe ( Actor )

... 1961

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

Dr. Emil Zurich ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1958

... 1957

The Story of Mankind

Pierre Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais ( Actor )

... 1957

Les Girls

Judge ( Actor )

... 1957

The Sun Also Rises

Doctor ( Actor )

... 1957

Mister Cory

Mr. Earnshaw ( Actor )

... 1957

Lust for Life

Theodorus van Gogh ( Actor )

... 1956

... 1956

Diane

Gondi ( Actor )

... 1956

The Prodigal

Ramadi ( Actor )

... 1955

The Egyptian

Mekere ( Actor )

... 1954

Buccaneer's Girl

Capt. Duval ( Actor )

... 1950

Siren of Atlantis

Blades ( Actor )

... 1949

Wake of the Red Witch

Jacques Desaix ( Actor )

... 1948

The Exile

Colonel Ingram ( Actor )

... 1947

Song of Love

Franz Liszt ( Actor )

... 1947

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

The Regent - William of Pembroke ( Actor )

... 1946

Captain Kidd

King William III ( Actor )

... 1945

The Woman in Green

Professor James Moriarty ( Actor )

... 1945

The Body Snatcher

Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane ( Actor )

... 1945

Hotel Berlin

Baron Von Stetten ( Actor )

... 1945

The Suspect

Mr. Simmons ( Actor )

... 1945

Jane Eyre

Henry Brocklehurst ( Actor )

... 1943

Watch on the Rhine

Phili Von Ramme ( Actor )

... 1943

Mission to Moscow

Minister von Ribbentrop ( Actor )

... 1943

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

William Easter ( Actor )

... 1943

Reunion in France

Emile Fleuron ( Actor )

... 1942

The Great Impersonation

Frederick Seamon ( Actor )

... 1942

Nightmare

Capt. Edgar Stafford ( Actor )

... 1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Sir Anthony Lloyd ( Actor )

... 1942

Castle in the Desert

Watson King ( Actor )

... 1942

... 1942

The Feminine Touch

Shelley Mason ( Actor )

... 1941

Dressed to Kill

Julian Davis ( Actor )

... 1941

A Woman's Face

Public Prosecutor ( Actor )

... 1941

The Philadelphia Story

Sidney Kidd ( Actor )

... 1940

The Great Dictator

Garbitsch ( Actor )

... 1940

The Sea Hawk

Lord Wolfingham ( Actor )

... 1940

All This, and Heaven Too

Broussais ( Actor )

... 1940

We Are Not Alone

Sir Ronald Dawson ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

Marie Antoinette

La Motte ( Actor )

... 1938

Holiday

Seton Cram ( Actor )

... 1938

The Firefly

General Savary ( Actor )

... 1937

Madame X

Lerocle ( Actor )

... 1937

The Thirteenth Chair

John Wales ( Actor )

... 1937

Under Cover of Night

Professor Marvin Griswald ( Actor )

... 1937

Camille

Baron de Varville ( Actor )

... 1936

The Unguarded Hour

Hugh Lewis ( Actor )

... 1936

The Last of the Lone Wolf

Count von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel) ( Actor )

... 1930

Jealousy

Clement ( Actor )

... 1929

The Awful Truth

Norman Warriner ( Actor )

... 1929